Peter will instruct what few servants remain to attend to the immediate needs of your men.

May I ask how long you expect to remain ?" I thought Grant was walking nervously back and forth across the room.
"How long?
Until night, probably.

Then with a bite in our haversacks we'll take the road again.

That is, providing you condescend to act as our host for so long a time.

Odds life! but this reception is not over warm to my thinking." "Elmhurst is not a tavern, sir." "No; but the home of a loyalist--the commander of half those men out yonder.