to awaken any thing like congeniality of feeling or
similarity of pursuit. Still we endeavoured, as much as
possible, to lessen the distance that existed between
us; and from the first moment of our joining the regiment,
determined to adopt the phraseology and manners of those
with whom an adverse destiny had so singularly connected
us. In this we succeeded; for no one, up to the present
moment, has imagined either my wife or myself to be other
than the simple and unpretending Frank and Ellen Halloway.

"On joining the regiment in this country," pursued the
prisoner, after another pause, marked by much emotion,
"I had the good fortune to be appointed to the grenadier
company. Gentlemen, you all know the amiable qualities
of Captain de Haldimar. But although, unlike yourselves,
I have learnt to admire that officer only at a distance,
my devotion to his interests has been proportioned to
the kindness with which I have ever been treated by him;
and may I not add, after this avowal of my former condition,
my most fervent desire has all along been to seize the
first favourable opportunity of performing some action
that would eventually elevate me to a position in which
I might, without blushing for the absence of the ennobling
qualities of birth and condition, avow myself his friend,
and solicit that distinction from my equal which was
partially extended to me by my superior? The opportunity
I sought was not long wanting. At the memorable affair
with the French general, Levi, at Quebec, in which our
regiment bore so conspicuous a part, I had the good
fortune to save the life of my captain. A band of Indians,