“You do, uncle, only you pretend that you don’t.”
“Pretend!”
“Yes. Poor fellows! How horrible! To have to stoop to such a scheme as that to get away! But after all, uncle, it’s glorious and brave. What an escape! Oh, how I should like to meet that poor fellow again!”
“What, to give him up to the soldiers?” said Uncle Paul sarcastically.
“Give him up to the soldiers!” cried the boy indignantly. “Why, I’d sooner put on his old clothes, and tell them a lie!”
“What!” cried Uncle Paul.
“Well, I’d pretend to be him so as to cheat them, and make them take me instead.”