We have offered you no rudeness whatever, and the Army of Northern Virginia is composed of men of the same kind." "I vill remember it," said Onderdonk gravely, and as they saluted him politely, he returned the salute.
"Not a bad fellow, I fancy," said Harry, as they rode away.
"No, but our stubborn enemy, all the same.

Wherever our battle is fought we'll find a lot of these Pennsylvania Dutchmen standing up to us to the last." Harry and Dalton rejoined the staff, bringing with them no information of value, and they marched slowly on another day, camping in the cool of the evening, both armies now being lost to the anxious world that waited and sought to find them.
Lee himself, as Harry gathered from the talk about him, was uncertain.
He did not wish a battle now, but his advance toward the Susquehanna had been stopped by the news that the Army of the Potomac could cut in behind.

The corps of Ewell had been recalled, and Harry, as he rode to it with a message from his general, saw his old friends again.

They were in a tiny village, the name of which he forgot, and Colonel Talbot and Lieutenant-Colonel St.Hilaire, sitting in the main room of what was used as a tavern in times of peace, had resumed the game of chess, interrupted so often.

Lieutenant-Colonel St.Hilaire was in great glee, just having captured a pawn, and Colonel Talbot was eager and sure of revenge, when Harry entered and stated that he had delivered an order to General Ewell to fall back yet farther.
"Most untimely! Most untimely!" exclaimed Colonel Talbot, as they rapidly put away the board and chessmen.