“But a staff uniform!”
“I think we had better separate here; I will take care of myself, and you can pursue your investigations in your own way.”
“You would be taken in less than half an hour. There is a house over here, where I can get you a farmer’s frock, or something of that kind.”
“Then, if taken, I am an officer in disguise; and it would go hard with me.”
“I think it would any way.”
“Perhaps it would.”
“You are pretty well known by reputation. You had better change your name.”
“Perhaps I will, if I have to give my name.”
“Who goes there?” demanded a squad of men, as they were on the point of crossing a rough farm-road.
“Friends,” replied the major.