I see it close at hand, just the same." Madame Delaunay sighed.
"And you, Major St.Hilaire ?" she said.
"There may be a great war, Madame Delaunay," he said, "I fear that Colonel Talbot is right, but we shall win it." Colonel Talbot said nothing more, nor did Madame Delaunay.

Presently she went back into the house.

After a long silence the colonel said: "If I were not sure that our friend Shepard had left Charleston long since, I should say that the figure now passing in the street is his." A small lawn filled with shrubbery stretched before the house, but from the piazza they could see into the street.

Harry, too, caught a glimpse of a passing figure, and like the colonel he was sure that it was Shepard.
"It is certainly he!" he exclaimed.
"After him!" cried Colonel Talbot, instantly all action.

"As sure as we live that man is a spy, drawing maps of our fortifications, and I should have warned the Government before." The four sprang from the piazza and ran into the street.