Your father is with Chambers, and, no doubt, the Confederate commander out yonder will forward you to his care.

I will take you to him under a flag of truce." We were out where the light shown upon us dimly, yet sufficiently to reveal expressions.

Her face was colorless, but her eyes exhibited no fear.
"Wait, Lieutenant Galesworth," she insisted, still clinging to my hand.
"I must understand better, and you must hear first what I have to tell.
Why did father leave the house without me ?" "We both believed you had already gone." "I?
That was a strange supposition." "Not at all; you had disappeared; we could discover no trace of you anywhere.

Your father reported that you had overheard all that occurred in the hall below--the arrival of reinforcements, my orders to defend the house, the Federal plan of attack.

Major Hardy told you his parole prevented him from reporting this discovery, yet no pledge of honor bound you.