Search us if you like." "Not on entering my lines, Colonel," replied Brant, with quiet significance.
Lagrange's cheek flushed.

But he recovered himself quickly, and with a formal bow said,-- "You will, then, perhaps, let us know your pleasure ?" "My DUTY, Colonel, is to keep you both close prisoners here until I have an opportunity to forward you to the division commander, with a report of the circumstances of your arrest.

That I propose to do.

How soon I may have that opportunity, or if I am ever to have it," continued Brant, fixing his clear eyes significantly on Lagrange, "depends upon the chances of war, which you probably understand as well as I do." "We should never think of making any calculation on the action of an officer of such infinite resources as General Brant," said Lagrange ironically.
"You will, no doubt, have an opportunity of stating your own case to the division commander," continued Brant, with an unmoved face.

"And," he continued, turning for the first time to Captain Faulkner, "when you tell the commander what I believe to be the fact--from your name and resemblance--that you are a relation of the young lady who for the last three weeks has been an inmate of this house under a pass from Washington, you will, I have no doubt, favorably explain your own propinquity to my lines." "My sister Tilly!" said the young officer impulsively.