"You will, miss."
"How do you know this?"
"I'll tell you. Last night I crept close to the tent of Branch and listened. I heard him giving directions to some one he was about to send forward. I heard him say you were to go with him, and that your room would be in the hotel at Springfield which is now used as the rebel hospital. And the captain is to be imprisoned in the cellar of the same building."
"Are you to go with us?"
"I shall go, but as soon as I find out what is to be done, I shall go somewhere else."
"You don't intend to leave the captain?"
"Yes, I do!"
"What! Forsake him now!"
"Who the devil said anything about forsaking him? There's a good deal of difference between leaving and forsaking, I take it."
"I know you will act for the best, my good fellow!"