“Do you carry this paper with you?”
“Always; my life would not be safe a moment without it.”
“I should say your life would not be safe with it, if it were discovered upon you within the rebel lines.”
“There is no danger on that score. I take good care of it. Are you satisfied, Captain Somers?”
“I am satisfied with the paper; but I think your employers do not expect you to entrap Union officers, as you attempted to do at the Hasbrouk house.”
“My dear fellow, I did not intend to do anything of the kind.”
“You were certainly a party to the transaction.”
“Apparently I was; really I was not. Now that you understand the first part of the story, I will explain the second. You know Miss Hasbrouk?”
“Certainly I know her.”
“She is a beautiful girl—isn’t she?”