Shepard, pursuing swiftly, walked almost against the muzzle, and Harry laughed softly.
"Well, Mr.Shepard," he said, "you've followed me well, but as I've no mind to be hung for a spy or anything else, I must ask you to go back." "You have the advantage at present, it is true," said Shepard, "but what makes you think I was going to shoot at you or have you seized ?" "Isn't it what one would naturally expect ?" "Yes--perhaps.

But I could have given the alarm while you were still in the city.

I speak the truth when I say I do not know just what I had in mind.

But at all events the tables are turned.

You hold me at the pistol's muzzle and I admit it." He smiled and the boy could not keep from liking him.
"Mr.Shepard," said Harry, "what you told me at Montgomery was true.
We of the South did not realize the numbers, power and spirit of the North.