You've had Van Zoon watched ?" "My stable boy, Peter, hass not let him out of sight, since he landed from the _Dirkhoeven_.

Peter is not a lad of brilliant appearance, which iss perhaps all the better for our purpose, but he will keep Van Zoon in sight, if it iss humanly possible, without being himself suspected." "Well done, Jacobus, but I might have known that you would take all needful precautions." Robert came back from the window, and they promptly changed the current of the talk, speaking now of the army, its equipment, and the probable time of its march to meet Dieskau.

Presently they left Mynheer Huysman's house, and Robert and the merchant went toward the camp on the flats.
Here they beheld a scene of great activity and of enormous interest to Robert.
Few stranger armies have ever been gathered than that which Colonel William Johnson was preparing to lead against Crown Point.

The New Englanders brought with them all their characteristics, their independence, their love of individualism and their piety.

Despite this piety it was an army that swore hugely, and, despite its huge swearing, it was an honest army.