"From the time we got away from Ephraim Sowers until your men recaptured us, we saw no person save those who belonged to the plantation."
"When did you last see the mistress of the house, Mrs. Dillard?"
"We saw her when we were taken upstairs."
"Did you have any further communication with her?"
"She spoke with us while we were in the room—she standing on the outside of the locked door."
"Will you swear that she did not enter the room?"
"Yes; for if she had been able to do that much, I have no doubt she would have aided us to escape."
"Did you have no assistance when you got out of the room which had been converted into a prison?"
"None except from your spy, Ephraim Sowers," Nathan replied, and then he told of the circumstances of the affair, showing that but for the young Tory's vindictiveness the boys would yet have remained in confinement.
"Will you swear that you sent no word to Colonel Clarke's forces?"