No, I want to tell you about it first--- please, please listen." "Would you mind if I call Miles, and then you can tell your story to both of us ?" I asked.

"The fellow is armed, is he not; and I shall need to take some one along with me ?" "Yes, the man has a revolver.

You mean the sergeant?
I do not mind telling him." I hurried back to the front of the house, more anxious to be assured as to what was going on outside than to discover Miles.

Yet there was nothing alarming, even the cavalry regiment having been withdrawn across the pike.

Without a question the sergeant followed me back to where the girl waited..