He ran swiftly into a cross street, and when they followed him there he leaped over the low fence of a lawn, surrounding a great house, darted into the shrubbery, and the four, although they were joined by others, brought by the alarm, sought for him in vain.
"After all, I'm not sorry he got away," said Colonel Talbot, as they walked back to Madame Delaunay's.

"There is no war, and hence, in a military sense, there can be no spies.

I doubt whether we should have known what to do with him had we caught him, but I am certain that he has complete maps of all our defenses." Harry, with Arthur and many others whom he knew, started the next day for Montgomery.

Jefferson Davis had already been chosen President, and Alexander H.Stephens Vice-President, and Davis was on his way from his Mississippi home to the same town to be inaugurated.

In the excitement over the great event, so near at hand, Harry forgot all about Shepard and his doubts.