They were all I saw." "But why should Claire have been here," he asked, as though dazed, "unless she came to meet her brother?
I supposed her safe in the city." "I do not pretend to understand the cause of her presence.

But if you listen to my story you may know what to do." I paused an instant to get a grip on my thoughts.

I need not tell all, confess my identity, or mention my personal relations with the daughter.

"I am a soldier, Colonel Mortimer, in Maxwell's Brigade, of Washington's army.

What brought me here has nothing to do with the present story.