Two nights ago I came through the Union lines.

I ..." Mrs.Cary rose unsteadily to her feet.
"Through the Yankee lines! Oh, Herbert.

_Not as a spy!_" "A spy?
Of course not.

I hid in the woods all day, then climbed a tall pine tree and got the lay of their camp--the number of their guns--the disposition of forces and their lines of attack.

Yesterday I had the wires at Drury's Bluff and started trouble.