"I'll take this fellow in charge," he said, perceiving that it was in his power to give valuable information. "Come, too, if you like."
"I thank you; I want to join my company," said Frank.
"You'd rather do that than come and see the general?"
"I can see him any time when he wants me, but we don't have a fight every day, sir."
"Well, he shall hear of you. Can I do any thing for you?"
"If you please, you may take this gun that I have captured; one is enough for me."
The officer took it, saying, as he turned to go,—
"A spirited boy, and as modest as he is brave!"
In the mean time Frank's comrades in the fight were cutting their way through a thick swampy jungle in the direction of the enemy's left flank.
Relieved of his prisoner, his ardor inflamed rather than quenched by the evil tidings he had heard of his brother, he followed in their track, passing directly across the fire of the battery.