He will get there all the quicker." In five minutes they were driving down the village, with Dan in the back seat.

On the way the doctor obtained from Lucy a more detailed account of their adventures.
"So he is one of those Confederate officers who broke prison at Elmira," he said.

"I saw yesterday that one of his companions was captured." "Was he, sir?
How was that ?" "It seems that he had made his way down to Washington, and was staying at one of the hotels there as a Mr.James of Baltimore.

As he was going through the streets he was suddenly attacked by a negro, who assaulted him with such fury that he would have killed him had he not been dragged off by passers-by.

The black would have been very roughly treated, but he denounced the man he had attacked as one of the Confederate officers who had escaped from the prison.