"Zounds, man, what do you take us for?" asked Vernon, indignantly.
"Most worthy gentlemen, who have had a most wholesome lesson in military law."
[CHAPTER XXX.]
BOB'S GOOD ANGEL.
Our friends walked away, thoroughly mad with the officer, who had, however, only done his duty.
That Bob was condemned to death on such short notice and poor evidence may appear strange to our readers, but they must remember that the country was at war.
England had invaded the States, and had boldly declared that Washington should be reduced to ashes.
The republic was only a few years old, and there were many of the old tories who believed that England would subjugate the new nation, and reduce it to a principality or dependency of Britain.