"Of course I do."
"What will pa say when General Curtis comes along and wants to know what has become of the guards he sent?"
"You folks can say that they never came and he will just think they have deserted."
"But you know pa is so particular about his honesty, that he would spoil the whole thing."
"Your pa would not know what killed the Yanks, and we would take their horses and arms and your pa would be so frightened that he would keep still."
"Well, what about your Colonel?"
"Oh, the devil with him. I sometimes think he is half Yank by the way he acts and talks. Now, if you will kill these Yanks, you will be doing the confederacy a great favor. It might not be three days before we get into a fight with them and they might kill your brother or me, so you see you can do as much as any soldier if you are brave and do what I want you to."
"Well, I will do it, for it may be as you say, and if my brother and you should be killed, I wouldn't want to live."
"Now you talk like my own brave little girl."