Let us go on, now, taking things in their due order.

There was one circumstance which gave me a slant in a definite direction to begin with: Those two robbers were manifestly soldiers in tramp disguise; and not new to military service, but old in it--regulars, perhaps; they did not acquire their soldierly attitude, gestures, carriage, in a day, nor a month, nor yet in a year.

So I thought, but said nothing.

And one of them had said, 'the captain's voice, by G--!'-- the one whose life I would have.

Two miles away, several regiments were in camp, and two companies of U.S.cavalry.