“I have not met him for three months.”

“He can not be dead?”

“He may be wounded.”

“And Mohun—is he at his head-quarters?”

Nighthawk smiled.

“He is at Five Forks, to-day, colonel.”

“And Willie Davenant?”

“In Richmond, on business at the war department.”

“Humph! So I shall see neither—but another time.”

And mounting my horse, I added:—