"I hope to see him soon." He went at once with his wife and daughter to rooms in the fort.

That evening he satisfied himself as to the character and standing of John Irons, learning that he was a patriot of large influence and considerable means.
The latter family and that of Peter Bones were well quartered in tents with a part of the Fifty-Fifth Regiment then at Fort Stanwix.

Next morning Jack went to breakfast with Colonel Hare and his wife and daughter in their rooms, after which the Colonel invited the boy to take a walk with him out to the little settlement of Mill River.

Jack, being overawed, was rather slow in declaring himself and the Colonel presently remarked: "You and my daughter seem to have got well acquainted." "Yes, sir; but not as well as I could wish," Jack answered.

"Our journey ended too soon.