"But, Mis' Agatha, how's I to—"
"Never mind the details now. I'll tell you about all that when I get my plans ready. I'll tell you everything you must do and how to do it, so far as I can, and you must depend on your wits for the rest. You're pretty quick, I think."
"Yes'm; anyhow I kin see through a millstone ef there's a hole through it. But, Mis' Agatha, is you sho' 'nuff gwine to tell me how to fin' Mas' Baillie an' take kyar o' him?"
Agatha reassured him, and sent him off to sleep in order to be ready for their early start in the morning. Then she joined Stuart and asked him:
"Did you pick up any prisoners near the point where Captain Pegram fell?"
"I really don't know. Why?"
"Why, if you did you'd know to what command they belonged, and that would help me."
"Help you? Why, what are you planning?"
"To find Captain Pegram."
"But how?"