“First, the fact of your being here, and secondly because your comrade spoke, while we were within hearing, of your having been sent from Ticonderoga.”
Nathan shot an angry glance toward Isaac as if Corporal ’Lige’s recruit alone was to blame for this unpleasant interruption to the journey; but he ventured no reply lest further chastisement might follow.
“Tell me to whom you are sent, and have a care in the replying, for we are not minded to waste much time upon such as you.”
Nathan was beginning to understand that he was wholly in the power of an enemy, whom he could not readily deceive, and also believed that it might be painful for him if the answer was delayed.
He was not so devoted to the cause as to 188 be willing to suffer in its behalf, and, therefore, said surlily:
“We were going to Captain Remember Baker at Sudbury.”
“Who sent you?”
“Colonel Allen.”
“Where is the message you are carrying?”
“He gave us none save by word of mouth.”