"The Regulators? I haven't heard any thing of them for a year. I supposed they no longer existed."
"They do exist," added Richard. "I happen to know something about them."
"What do you know?"
In reply to this question, Richard narrated all the particulars of his abduction from his post while doing guard duty.
"But why didn't you tell me about this?" demanded the colonel, surprised and indignant at the audacity of the Regulators. "Why did you suffer the penalty of deserting your post, when you were innocent?"
"I thought it would be better in the end, sir. I wanted to find out who the Regulators were."
"Well, have you found out?"
"I think I have, sir."
"Who are they?"
"I am pretty well satisfied that they are encamped upon Green Island just now," said Richard, with a smile.