My men are all doing their duty, and I will do mine.
So you trust me, and if you don't come back by daybreak to-morrow morning, I will start right away with these letters.

I will go out at once and hide them somewhere, in case the Yanks should come and make a search.

If you are caught they might, like enough, trace you here, and then they would search the place all over and maybe set it alight.

If you aint here by nightfall I shall sleep out in the wood, so if they come they won't find me here.

If anything detains you, and you aint back till after dark, you will find me somewhere near the tree where your horse is tied up." Provided with a large can full of a liquor that the woman compounded, and which Vincent, on tasting, found to be by no means bad, he started from the cottage.