2." "You'll be very uncomfortable.

It's only separated from No.

1 by a partition, and you can hear everything that happens from one room to the other." "Nonsense, my dear man, do you think I've come here to do improper things, or sing seditious songs, that you are afraid the stranger should hear or see what I do ?" "Oh! that's not it." "What is it then ?" "I'm not afraid you'll disturb others.

I'm afraid they'll disturb you." "So your new guest is a roisterer ?" "No; he looks to me like an officer." "What makes you think so ?" "His manner, in the first place.

Then he inquired what regiment was in garrison at Macon; and when I told him it was the 7th mounted Chasseurs, he said: 'Good! the colonel is a friend of mine.