And Newberry we caught and hung before we went to Westchester.

I saw him hang with that wretched Lieutenant Hare.

God! how we cheered by regiments marching back to camp!" Through the intense stillness I could still hear the woman sobbing in the dark below.
"Lois--little Lois," I whispered, touching her trembling arm with a hand quite as unsteady.
She dropped her arm from her face, looking up at me with eyes widened still in horror.
I said: "Do you then wonder that the thought of you, roaming these woods alone, is become a living dread to me, so that I think of nothing else ?" She smiled wanly, and sat thinking for a while, her pale face pressed between her hands.

Presently she looked up.
"Are we so truly friends then, Euan?
At the Spring Waiontha it almost seemed as though it could come true." "You know it has come true." "Do I ?" "Do you not know it, little Lois ?" "I seem to know it, somehow....

Tell me, Euan, does a true and deathless friendship with a man--with you--mean that I am to strip my heart of every secret, hiding nothing from you ?" "Dare you do it, Lois ?" I said laughingly, yet thrilled with the candour of her words.
"I could not let you think me better than I am.