“Yes,” said Captain Edwards sternly. “You were treated well and generously the first time; this time you may find that the English officers can be stern as well as generous to a beaten enemy.—Well, Captain Roby,” he continued, “there was no mistake, you see, about the alarm.”
“So I see,” said the latter officer coldly.
“The thing is, what was he doing here?”
“Playing the spy, or hiding and waiting for a chance to get away, I suppose.”
“Well, you will take him down with you, and report to the colonel,” said Captain Edwards.
“Stop a bit,” cried Dickenson. “You haven’t got the other.”
“What other?” cried the two captains in a breath.
“This fellow’s comrade.”
“Has he one?”
“You heard what the private said about seeing two,” cried Dickenson.