"Yet we couldn't do very much toward helping you in your work."
"What you have done since last evening shows of how much assistance you might be. Two boys can loiter here or there without exciting the suspicion which would naturally be aroused if a man was observed doing the same thing."
"I can't say I'm sorry we came away. It seemed necessary we should do so—"
"And so it was, my boy. You did just right in getting to Barren Hill at the earliest possible moment."
"It was Jacob's idea. I do not believe I should have thought of getting the horses but for him, and he planned the whole affair."
"Yet he is dissatisfied because General Lafayette did not embrace and kiss him on both cheeks, at the same time making him at least a colonel, isn't he?"
Enoch laughed heartily, and finally asked curiously:
"How did you know anything about that?"
"It comes natural for me to pry into every one's business, and it may be I heard you two talking, or read it in Master Ludwick's face. But why is it you do not expect a rich reward?"
"Because we have simply performed our duty, and when that is done in behalf of the cause one is rewarded by the knowledge that he has been of some service."