It is a sad thing the way this war has divided families.

Has Mistress Claire any Colonial sentiments ?" "How the devil do I know! She would not be likely to air them before me.
I don't know what fool trick you played on her last night, but she's on the right side just the same." "I think so, too." His manner was so disagreeable that I instantly determined to have an end.

I had more important work before me than quarrelling with this fellow, and, somehow, his claimed intimacy with Mistress Mortimer grated upon me strangely.
"If that is all you requested an interview for, Captain Grant," I said coldly, "I'll trouble you to return to your men." I followed him closely back toward the fire, and neither spoke until we reached the guard-lines.

Then he turned his face toward me.
"Have you a party out after the lieutenant ?" "No; probably he ran into our horse guard across the creek.

If not, the three who are reported to have got away can do us no harm.