I failed.

I pay." With a gesture which indicated Gary the disgraced officer of the Army of the Potomac shot out his one and only defense of his action--at an unyielding back.
"I took this man--hunted--wounded--fighting to reach the side of a hungry child.

I captured him and, by the rules of war, I was about to have him shot.

Then he asked me to get his little girl safely to Richmond, and not to let her know--about him." "And she believed in _me_.

_Trusted_ me--even as I trusted Herbert Cary to pierce the very center of your lines--as a father--not a spy!" From behind the unyielding back came a statement of fact, firm and pitiless.
"And it cost you your sword--your life." Morrison centered his eyes on the back of the General's head and sent his answer home with all the power of his voice and spirit.
"_And I have no regret_" he said.