I wonder who the deuce he is, and what brought him into this condition." [Illustration: "'POOR DEVIL,' SAID GREGORY.

'HE SEEMS TO BE ON HIS LAST LEGS.'"] "I've searched, and there's nothing about to tell us," said Dempsey.
"What do you think we had better do with him ?" "Get him up the hill," said his superior, without hesitation.

"When he's a bit stronger we'll have his story out of him.

I'll bet a few years' pay it will be interesting." A file of men were called, and the mysterious stranger was carried up to the residence of the English officers.

It was plain to the least observant that he was in a very serious condition.