"you have heard what has been preferred against you; what
say you, therefore? Are you guilty, or not guilty?"

"Not guilty," firmly and somewhat exultingly replied the
prisoner, laying his hand at the same time on his swelling
heart.

"Stay, sir," sternly observed the governor, addressing
the president; "you have not read ALL the charges."

Captain Blessington took up the paper from the table, on
which he had carelessly thrown it, after reading the
accusations above detailed, and perceived, for the first
time, that a portion had been doubled back. His eye now
glanced over a third charge, which had previously escaped
his attention.

"Prisoner," he pursued, after the lapse of a minute,
"there is a third charge against you, viz. for having,
on the night of the --th Sept. 1763, suffered Captain
De Haldimar to unclose the gate of the fortress, and,
accompanied by his servant, private Harry Donellan, to
pass your post without the sanction of the governor, such
conduct being in direct violation of a standing order of
the garrison, and punishable with death."

The prisoner started. "What!" he exclaimed, his cheek
paling for the first time with momentary apprehension;
"is this voluntary confession of my own to be turned into
a charge that threatens my life? Colonel de Haldimar, is