"They are in the same company with Greene, the spy, are they not?"
"Yes, sir."
"You will find them over here to the right. Suppose you let me take the beast? The general's servants will care for him as well as you could. You need have no fear, so far as he is concerned, for he will fare better than you will, I am afraid."
Enoch hesitated just an instant before doing as the orderly suggested, and had but just released the bridle-rein when Seth and Jacob came running up.
Turning toward his friends with a cry of joy, Enoch clasped their hands as if he had never expected to see them again, and Master Ludwick asked in a suspicious tone:
"Where did you get that horse?"
"At General Arnold's headquarters."
"Did you swap him for the beast we took from Wharton's stable?"
"Certainly not; that one was turned over to the army at the same time yours was."
"But how does it happen you are riding, and what are you doing here?"