Yes!--you can take me out, and shoot me under that name, without disgracing yours.

Nobody will know that the Southern spy was the wife of the Northern general! You see, I have thought even of that!" "And thinking of that," said Brant slowly, "you have put yourself--I will not say in my power, for you are in the power of any man in this camp who may know you, or even hear you speak.

Well, let us understand each other plainly.

I do not know how great a sacrifice your devotion to your cause demands of you; I do know what it seems to demand of me.

Hear me, then! I will do my best to protect you, and get you safely away from here; but, failing that, I tell you plainly that I shall blow out your brains and my own together." She knew that he would do it.