CHAPTER XXII.
IMPORTANT TIDINGS.
It seemed strange that the messenger, if such he was, should know the right course to follow in order to reach the camp of Capt.

Asbury, for he was riding directly toward it, and that, too, at the highest speed of which his horse was capable.
But Monteith Sterry had noted a fact which escaped the captain, though he was an observant man.

The horseman was not approaching the camp at the moment the couple reached the crest of the elevation and began scrutinizing the surrounding country; he was going at right angles to it, but (as it afterward proved) he carried a glass, with which, at that moment, he was also scanning the horizon for something he was very anxious to find.
Fortunately he caught sight of the couple, and though he could not be assured of their identity at so great a distance, the suspicion of the truth as to Capt.

Asbury caused him to put his animal to his best speed.
In a brief time he rode up.

While some rods away he recognized the captain and saluted him.