In times of disturbance parties of ruffians often turn to plunder.

Not even the most rigorous precautions can guard against it.

Now, it would be very possible that even to-night a band of such maurauders might make an attack on the bank, and carry off all the money in the safe." "Oh!" said the colonel, "that's the game, is it ?" "That," I replied, "is the game; and a very neat game too, if you'll play it properly." "And what will they say in Europe, when they hear the Provisional Government is looting private property ?" "My dear colonel, you force me to much explanation.

You will, of course, not appear in the matter." "I should like to be there," he remarked.

"If I weren't, the men mightn't catch the exact drift of the thing." "You will be there, of course, but _incognito_.