I saw him again in Winchester just before the battle of Kernstown, and now here he is once more." "Must be a Wandering Jew sort of a fellow." "He wanders with purpose.

He has certainly come up here to spy us out." "In which he is no more guilty than we are." "That's true, but what are we going to do about it, captain ?" "Blessed if I know.

Wait till I take a look." Captain Sherburne raised himself a little, in order to peep over the crest of the ridge.

A rifle cracked on the other side, a bullet clipped the top of his cap, and he dropped back in the snow, unhurt but startled.
"This man, Shepard, is fully as dangerous as you claim him to be," he said to Harry.
"Can you see anything of them ?" asked St.Clair.
"Not a thing," said Harry.
"If we show they shoot, and if they show we shoot," said Langdon.

"Seems to me it's about the most beautiful case of checkmate that I've known." "Perhaps we can stalk them," said St.Clair.
"And perhaps they can stalk us," said Langdon.