spy, and he has found out our hiding-place and counted our men."

Aiken turned on him with a snarl.

"Oh, you ass!" he cried. "He came as a volunteer. He wanted to fight
with you,--for the sacred cause of liberty!"

"Yes, he wanted to fight with us," shouted Heinze, indignantly. "As
soon as he got into the camp, he wanted to fight with us."

Laguerre made an exclamation of impatience, and rose unsteadily from
the gun-carriage.

"Silence!" he commanded. "I tell you I cannot listen to you now. I
will give these men a hearing after roll-call. In the meantime if they
are spies, they have seen too much. Place them under guard; and if
they try to escape, shoot them."

I gave a short laugh and turned to Aiken.

"That's the first intelligent military order I've heard yet," I said.

Aiken scowled at me fearfully, and Reeder and Heinze gasped. General
Laguerre had caught the words, and turned his eyes on me. Like the
real princess who could feel the crumpled rose-leaf under a dozen
mattresses, I can feel it in my bones when I am in the presence of a
real soldier. My spinal column stiffens, and my fingers twitch to be
at my visor. In spite of their borrowed titles, I had smelt out the
civilian in Reeder and had detected the non-commissioned man in
Heinze, and just as surely I recognized the general officer in