He was a Southerner, heart and soul, and thought that he might be able sometimes to take useful information across the river to our people; but a few weeks afterward his house was attacked by one of these bands--it was always said it was that of Mullens--and he was killed, defending it to the last.

He killed several of the band before he fell, and they were so enraged that, after plundering it, they set it on fire and fastened the door, and his wife and two maidservants were burned to death." "I wish instead of throwing his pistol out of the window, I had blown his brains out with it," Vincent said; "and I would have done so, if I had known what sort of fellow he was.

However, as to the boat, can you give me instructions where to find it, and is it light enough for two men to carry ?" "Not to carry, perhaps, but to push along.

It is a light boat he had for pleasure.

He had a large one, but that was carried away with the others.