Questioned, threatened, and re-questioned, he had of course nothing to divulge.

The less pressure was brought in that these troops were in possession of the facts which the moment desired.

His name and rank he gave, it being idle to withhold them.

In the end he was shut alone into a small room of the farm-house, behind a guarded door.

He saw that there was planned an attack upon the detachment that with dawn would move from Shap.