He fortunately had a small notebook with a pencil in his pocket, and as his guards were still at the window he wrote as follows: "I am captured by the Yankees.

So far as I can see, my only chance of escape is to make the sentries drunk.

The bearer is absolutely to be trusted.

Give him his canteen full of spirits, and tell him what I have written here." He tore this page out, folded it up, and directed it to Mrs.Grossmith, Worley Farm, near Union.

Presently Tony looked in again and Vincent held up the note.