"If he asks after me or Dan, tell him we are looking about the place to see what is useful.

Don't let him know I have gone to Mount Pleasant, it might worry him." Dan at once agreed to accompany the girl to Mount Pleasant when he heard that she was going to get things for his master.

Looking about he found an old basket and they started without delay by the one road from the clearing which led, they had no doubt, to the town.

It was about two miles distant, and was really but a large village.

A few Federal soldiers from the camp hard by were lounging about the streets, but these paid no attention to them.