But the general listened coldly and gravely with his eyes fixed upon her face.
"You say you recognized in the leader of the party a man you had seen before.

Under what circumstances ?" Mrs.Bunker hesitated with burning cheeks.

"He came to take Colonel Marion from our place." "When you were hiding him,--yes, we've heard the story.

Now, Mrs.
Bunker, may I ask you what you, as a Southern sympathizer, expect to gain by telling me this story ?" But here Mrs.Bunker burst out.

"I am not a Southern sympathizer! Never! Never! Never! I'm a Union woman,--wife of a Northern man.