I cannot even send an armed scouting party to get the information I need.

If you go, you must go unarmed, and even then you may be arrested and dealt hardly with.

It will require the utmost discretion as well as courage, to accomplish the task, and I have no wish that you should undertake it if you hesitate to do so." "I do not hesitate, sir," replied Sam, "if, after hearing my plan, you think me competent for the business." "Very well then," replied the general, "when will you be ready to lay your plan before me ?" "I am ready now, sir," said Sam, "so far at least as the general plan is concerned; little things will have to be dealt with as they arise." "Certainly.

What is your plan in outline ?" "To go to Florida on a trapping and fishing excursion.

I am not a soldier yet, and may go, if I like, peacefully into the territory of a friendly nation.