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Whether the danger, intimated in the present note, threatened the cottage or his own party, the
captain
was uncertain; but he inclined to the latter opinion, and determined to beware how he rode abroad in the dark.
"Mount, mount, and follow your captain; arm and mount, and that instantly, or you will be too late!"
Another glass confirmed the veteran in a resolution that was only excited by a dread of his
captain'
s displeasure, and he proceeded to summon the dozen men who had been left under his command.
The figure that stood erect sprang into the saddle of the unheeded charger; sparks of fire, issuing from the armed feet of the horse, gave a momentary light by which the
captain
was seen dashing like the wind towards the highway.
But the
captain
it was that fell, and I'm thinking that there's no better rider going; so, sargeant, it's the cart will be convanient.
"The black is there already, and it's tardy the
captain
will think ye.""Are you sure that it was really a black man that brought the order?" said the sergeant, dropping in between the platoons, where he could converse with Betty, and be at hand, to lead on an emergency, either on an advance or on a retreat.
The captain, after placing Sarah on a sofa that had been hurled from the building by two of his men, retired, that the ladies might succeed him in his care.
"Nay!
captain
dear, no be parting with the horse, anyway," said Betty.
captain, darling," cried Betty, "why do you bother the woman?
A loud shriek burst from the dwelling, and the
captain
sprang into his saddle; the whole was the business of but a moment.
At her earnest request, the room was left to herself, the captain, and Frances.
They now approached the spot occupied by Hollister, who witnessed with surprise the character of the prisoner made by his
captain.
Lawton gave his orders, and the men immediately commenced securing and removing such articles of furniture as were thought worthy of the trouble; and the captain, with his reverend associate, who was mounted on a mettled horse, returned to the quarters of the troop.
In a few words he explained that he had been ordered up, with a party of Lawton's men, in the absence of the
captain
himself, to attend the trial of Henry, which was fixed for the morrow; and that, anxious for their safety in the rude passes of the mountain, he had ridden a mile or two in quest of the travelers.
"You are said," continued the president, "to be Henry Wharton, a
captain
in his Britannic Majesty's 60th regiment of foot."
Bring you tidings of mercy?""Here, Frances - here, Henry - here, dear cousin Jeanette," cried the youth, as with trembling hands he broke the seal; "here is the letter itself, directed to the
captain
of the guard.
"Here, captain," he said, taking up some loose wool, and beginning to stuff the stockings of Caesar, which were already on the leg of the prisoner; "some judgment is necessary in shaping this limb.
"Slip on the coat, captain, over all.
The
captain
he conjured to dispense with his erect military carriage, and for a season to adopt the humble paces of his father's negro; and Caesar he enjoined to silence and disguise, so long as he could possibly maintain them.
"This is well," said the peddler; "but the difficult task is to deceive the officer who commands the guard - he is lieutenant to Lawton, and has learned some of the
captain'
s own cunning in these things.
Harvey gave the
captain
a glance, and led the way down the stairs, first desiring the woman to leave the prisoner to himself, in order that he might digest the wholesome mental food that he had so lately received.
The men now gathered in eager delight around the peddler, who, glancing his eye expressively towards the captain, who had been suffered to mount, replied,-"Doubtless, for such is my duty.
Ascending the horseblock, after hemming once or twice, and casting several glances at the captain, who continued immovable, he commenced as follows:-"I shall call your attention, my brethren, to that portion of Scripture which you will find in the second book of Samuel, and which is written in the following words: - 'And the king lamented over Abner, and said.
"I have heard of fear making a man white," said the soldier, drawing back, and staring as if his eyes would start from their sockets, "but it has changed the royal
captain
to a black!"
The road which it was necessary for the peddler and the English
captain
to travel, in order to reach the shelter of the hills, lay, for a half mile, in full view from the door of the building that had so recently been the prison of the latter; running for the whole distance over the rich plain, that spreads to the very foot of the mountains, which here rise in a nearly perpendicular ascent from their bases; it then turned short to the right, and was obliged to follow the windings of nature, as it won its way into the bosom of the Highlands.
There are none before us that I dread, but there are those behind who will give us a fearful race!""Nay, then," cried the captain, casting the implements of his disguise into the highway, "let us improve our time to the utmost.
A very few jumps convinced the
captain
that his companion was fast leaving him, and a fearful glance thrown behind informed the fugitive that his enemies were as speedily approaching.
The
captain
again proposed to leave their horses and dash into the thicket.
The
captain
took out his pocketbook, and wrote a few lines with his pencil; then folding the paper, he handed it to his sister.
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captain.
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