He and I have come into conflict on several occasions, and I did not win every time." "Nobody could beat Harry always," exclaimed Dick with youthful loyalty.
"He was always the strongest and most active among us, and the best in forest and water.

He could hunt and fish and trail like the scouts of our border days." "I found him in full possession of all these qualities and he used them against me.

I should grieve if that cousin of yours were to fall, Mr.Mason.

I want to know him still better after the war." Dick would have asked further questions about the encounters between Harry and the spy, but he judged that Shepard did not care to answer them, and he forbore.

Yet the man aroused the most intense curiosity in him.
There were spies and spies, and Shepard was one of them, but he was not like the others.