He says he knew you on the canal in Ohio." "Oh, yes, I remember him now; bring him in." Brown was ushered into the general's tent.

He was clad in homespun, and spattered from head to foot with mud, but he saw in Garfield only the friend of earlier days, and hurrying up to him, gave him a hearty grasp of the hand, exclaiming, "Jim, old feller, how are yer ?" Garfield received him cordially, but added, "What is this I hear, Brown?
Are you a rebel ?" "Yes," answered the new-comer, "I belong to Marshall's force, and I've come straight from his camp to spy out your army." "Well, you go about it queerly," said Garfield, puzzled.
"Wait till you are alone, colonel.

Then I'll tell you about it." Col.

Bent said in an undertone to Garfield, as he left the tent, "Don't trust him, colonel; I know him as a thief and a rebel." This was the substance of Brown's communication.

As soon as he heard that James A.Garfield was in command of the Union forces, it instantly struck him that it must be his old comrade of the canal, for whom he still cherished a strong attachment.