"Who was your colonel?"
"Colonel Crawford."
"That's correct," said the officer. "All these things tally. I have a statement here that you and—your name is Noel Curtis, is it not?"
"Yes, sir."
"Well, I have a statement here that Noel Curtis and Dennis O'Hara, both belonging to Company —— of the —th regiment deserted just before the attack on Harper's Ferry."
"Colonel, may I ask you who made that statement?"
"The sutler is the one who informed us."
"Did any one else tell you?"
"I think so. I haven't all the papers here and I have no time to go into details about this. Have you served long?"
"We enlisted last spring, my brother and I. We were both in the Peninsula campaign. My brother was sick and went home on a furlough."