You can afford to obey me, although I'm a prisoner, because I'm so much older than you are.

You have a heart and breeding, young sir, and I wish to shake your hand." He thrust a large hand from the cover, and Dick shook it warmly.
"I wouldn't have shaken it if you had been born north of the Ohio River," said Colonel Woodville.
Dick laughed.
"My chief purpose in having you brought here," said Colonel Woodville, "was to relate to you an incident, of which I heard once.

Did I read about it, or was it told to me, Margaret ?" "I think, sir, that some one told you of it." "Ah, well, it doesn't matter.

A few words will tell it.

In an old, forgotten war a young soldier quartered in the house of his defeated enemy--but defeated only for the time, remember--saw something which made him believe that a wounded nephew of the house was hid in an upper room.