Anyway you must go immediately." "We shall part as friends ?" She hesitated, as though considering the full intent of my request.
"Hardly that, Lieutenant Galesworth.

The word 'friend' should mean much, and we are merely chance acquaintances--politically enemies." "I had hoped that difference--merely the accident of war--might have been swept aside.

It has no personal weight with me, and I supposed you were of broader mind." "I am," she responded earnestly.

"Some of my best friends are Northerners, wearing that uniform, but, as it chances, we have met in war, playing at cross-purposes.

You are a Federal scout whom I have unwittingly helped through the Confederate lines.