God bless you, my boy! I have never looked for such happiness as this again.

But, as you say, it is time for me to be off.

I have never been late yet, and if it were reported to the governor that I was so tonight, he might think that there was something in the wind." Dick walked with his father across the fort.
"That is the house, in the corner," the captain said, pointing to one before which a group of soldiers were standing.

"Don't come any farther." Dick stood looking after him, and heard a voice say: "You are late, Jack.

I was beginning to wonder what had become of you." "I don't think it is past the hour, yet," Captain Holland replied.