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So the General and Colonel Preston, with about half a dozen gentlemen, went out to meet the new enemy, while Morgan contrived that I should, as Captain Bruton's son, be where I could see and hear all that was going on.
"Is Mr Winters here?" he said. "Yes, General." "What have you to say, sir, now?" "That I beg Captain Bruton's pardon, sir; and that I will be one of the first to help restore his house, if it please God I live through the trouble that is to come." "Thank you, Mr Winters," said my father, quietly. "If we are staunch to each other I have no fear for the result."
You will not hurt now." "It's not dangerous then?" I said. "Not at all; but if it had not been sharply attended to by your father you would have bled to death." "And how is our Sarah?" I said, eagerly. "If you mean Captain Bruton's housekeeper, she is badly wounded, but I have removed the arrow-head, and I think she will do. I suppose you are Master George?" "Yes."
"Oh, come, Winters," said Colonel Preston, warmly, "if you had seen those boats bristling with arrows you would not think our friend Bruton had been crying wolf." "And if he will go into our temporary hospital he will see one of the wounded lying there seriously injured." "But I do not want to cast doubts on Captain Bruton's report." "Then why did you try, sir?" I said hotly.
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