all be out of reach before morning."

"Who will be out of reach?" eagerly demanded the other.

"The men that my brother Samuel enlisted. You knew he had got a
captain's commission in General Burgoyne's army, I 'spose."

"We heard so; but has Captain Samuel Rose been in town to-day?"

"Yes; for I may as well tell the whole, now I've begun. The captain
has been all day at the house of brother Asa Rose, who lives out of
the way, there, in the woods, over beyond the great road, you know.
Well, he had agreed to meet all he had enlisted in this section there
at sunset, and lead them off to the British camp, after people were
abed. I was there just before dark, and saw them; sixteen in all,
besides the captain, all armed and equipped, and he in full uniform;
and he looks complete in it, too, I tell you."

"But what was you amoung them there for?"

"O, I wanted to see Sam, and bid him good-by, you know, as he was
going off, never to come back, for aught I knew; that was all, upon
honor, now."

"Perhaps it was; but one thing I wish you to understand, Josh Rose,
and that is, if you take up for that side of the question, openly or
secretly, your visits here----"

"O, I shan't; no notion on't, not the least in the world; so don't
worry; though candidly, Vine, I don't believe it's much use for your