“Yes, what have you to suggest?” added the general.
“That you watch the skies in the early morning. Pigeons are being flown from this army in the early morning, and, sir, they are flying to the eastward,” Grace Harlowe informed them in a quiet tone.
CHAPTER VII
OFFICERS GET A SHOCK
EVERY eye was fixed on Grace Harlowe’s face mid a tense silence. General Gordon was the first to break the silence.
“Ah! I was certain that you had something in mind,” he said.
“I think you must be mistaken, Mrs. Gray,” objected Captain Boucher. “What you probably saw was a bird and—”
“Yes, sir, it was a bird,” agreed “Captain” Grace amid much laughter.
“Did you see the bird, or did some one tell about it?” persisted the Intelligence officer.
“I saw it, sir.”