Miles had withdrawn his men on my orders, and we were all grouped together in the front hall.

She had simply slipped down these back stairs, used a duplicate key, passed through the kitchen unobserved, and out into the garden.

Where then?
To the stable, without doubt, and, mounted, into Chambers' lines, taking her news to the highest officer she could reach.

We would hear from it presently,--strange if not even already some of those troops were wheeling to invest the house.

I called back up the stairs, "Conroy, send Major Hardy down here." The Confederate appeared almost instantly, his eyes anxiously surveying the room.
"Have you found my girl ?" "No, but I have satisfied myself as to where she is.