"At the Johnson Arms in Johnstown."
"You wear the uniform of an officer in the Canajoharie Regiment. Are you attached to that regiment?"
He said he was; then contradicted himself, saying he had been obliged to borrow the clothing from an officer because, while bathing in the Mohawk at Caughnawaga, his own clothing had been swept into the water and engulfed.
Over this lie he was slow in speech, and stammered much, licking his dry lips, and his reddish, furtive eyes travelling about him as though his stealthy mind were elsewhere.
"Do you recollect that we supped in company at Johnson Hall—you and I—and not so long ago?" I demanded.
He had no remembrance.
"And Lieutenant Hare and Captain Watts were of the company?"
He denied acquaintance with these gentlemen.
"Or Hiakatoo?"
Had never heard of him.