We were in the same regiment all through the war, and a better officer never commanded men.

Know him! I know him to the extent of a leg, lost when I was standing so close beside him that if I hadn't been there the ball would have taken his instead of mine.

Know him! Didn't I know him for three months in the hospital, where he came to see me every day?
Indeed I do know Major Caspar, and I should be mighty glad to know of any way in which I could help him out of his present trouble." "It is strange that I never heard father speak of any Aleck Fifield," thought Winn.

He was about to ask some more questions, but was restrained by the remembrance of his present peculiar position.

The same thought checked his inclination to say, "I am Winn Caspar, sir, the son of your friend Major Caspar, of Caspar's Mill." Instead of that he said to himself, "I will wait until we get away from this place; or, at any rate, until I can receive a letter from home that will prove who I am.