He was speaking.
She held her breath at the sound of his voice.
“Yes, she is true grit every time. I admired her spunk and I didn’t like her course of action.”
“Think she is spoony on the Yank?”
“Looks like it. But I tell you those Morlands are going to get into trouble, if they ain’t already, over that spy. The captain’s course this afternoon was shameful.”
“S’pose they’ll shoot the spy in the morning?”
“Of course; and I should like the job. Reckon they wouldn’t find me a Freemason—ha—ho! That’s the best joke I have heard lately.”
“Is it true the colonel has sent a man up to old Morland’s?”
“Yes; he smells a rat somewhere. Leastways the major does, and he has put him up to it.”
“By the way, the captain fills his new rank well.”