"Will you ask the colonel to call and see me?"
"Yes. Ah, here he is."
Eben caught Allen's hand and the hot tears flowed over it. He kissed the hard hand of the mountaineer and stroked it until nature came to the rescue and Eben fell back asleep.
"He is saved. The countershock did what nothing else could. It was an interesting experiment."
CHAPTER XXVII.
A PRISONER.
Three days later Allen received another command to penetrate into Canada and seek to interest the Canadians, especially the French, in the colonial cause.
The Green Mountain Boy would have preferred to stay with the army and participate in the siege of St. John, but he was a soldier, and a soldier's first duty is obedience.
He addressed the people in every town and village, and the result was far beyond his expectations.