I last heard of you as in a wild mix-up with the Sioux, and I wished I was with you." As Penhallow spoke the two men shook hands, Swallow meanwhile standing apart not over-pleased as through the narrowed lids of near-sight he saw that the two men must have known one another well and even intimately, for Woodburn replied, "Thought you knew I'd left the army, Jim.

The last five years I've been running my wife's plantation in Maryland." The Squire's pleasure at his encounter with an old West Point comrade for a moment caused him to forget that this was the master who had been set on Josiah's track by Grey.

It was but for a moment.

Then he drew up his soldierly figure and said coldly, "I am sorry that you are here on what cannot be a very agreeable errand." "Oh!" said Woodburn cheerfully, "I came to get my old servant, Caesar.

It seems to have been a fool's errand.