underbrush at a great rate. They had undoubtedly been seized with a
panic and taken to their heels.

Tom waited till he could no longer hear any sounds of the fleeing
redcoats, and then he called out:

"Dick! Oh, Dick!"



Chapter IX

The Brothers Together


Almost at once came the reply:

"Tom! Oh, Tom, is that you?"

"Yes, Dick. I'll be right with you."

He hastened in the direction from which Dick's voice sounded, and a
few minutes later was at his side.

"What in the world brought you here, Tom?" queried Dick. "I was never
so surprised in my life as when I heard your voice."

"I'll tell you why I come, Dick. After you left your quarters in New
York, I got to thinking, and I remembered what I had told mother-that
I would go to war with you and fight side by side with you, you know,