He felt instinctively that his foe would fire if he were forced to do so and that he would not miss.

Then despite himself, he felt admiration for the man's skill and power, and a pronounced intellectual quality that he discovered in him.
"Very well," he replied, "I'll turn and go back, but I want to tell you, Mr.Shepard, that while you have been estimating what General Jackson's army can do you must make that estimate high." "I've already done so," called Shepard--Harry was riding away as he spoke.

The boy at the edge of the wood looked back, but the shadow was already gone.

He rode straight across the open and Seth Moore met him.
"Did you find anything ?" the young mountaineer asked.
"Yes, there was a mounted man in a blue uniform, a spy, who has been watching, but he made off.

You had good eyes, Seth, and I'm going to report this at once to General Jackson." Harry knew that he was the bearer of an unpleasant message.