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Retiring to the assigned quarters, Champe now turned his attention to the delivery of his letters, which he could not effect till the next night, and then only to one of the two incogniti, to whom he was recommended. This man received the sergeant with attention, and having read the letter, assured him of his faithful cooperation.
"Oh, you couldn't, you're white," said Dan; "and, besides, I reckon Big Abel and the pony are as much as I can manage. It's a dreadful weight, having people belong to you." Then he loaded his gun, and Betty ran away with her fingers in her ears, because she couldn't bear to have things killed. A month later Dan and Champe settled down to study.
"For heaven's sake, remember my warning," said Champe, turning in the saddle, "and don't insist upon eating dry bread if you're offered butter." "And you will look after Aunt Molly and Betty?" Dan rejoined. "Oh, I'll look after them," replied the other lightly, and rode off at an amble.
She was looking earnestly at Virginia, and wondering if she really liked Jack Morson so very much. The girl was so bewitching in her red dress, with the flush of a sudden emotion in her face, and the shyness in her downcast eyes. "Oh, that isn't fair, Virginia," called Champe from the steps. "Save your favour for the man that deserves it and look at me."
To be quite candid, it is beyond my comprehension how a certain lady can prefer the infantry to the cavalry yet she does emphatically." Dan coloured. "Was grandpa well?" he inquired lamely. With a laugh Champe flung one leg over the other, and clasped his knee. "It's an ill wind that blows nobody good," he responded.
Lee combated the objections of the sergeant with his usual address, and finally subdued his prejudices so far, that Champe consented to undertake the enterprise.
When Champe sees us she'll " Mention of Champe stiffened Ross's spine. If it had been glorious to call upon her, how very terrible she would make it should they attempt calling, fail, and the failure come to her knowledge! Some things were easier to endure than others; he resolved to stay till the call was made.
"We have come back, grandpa," he said. "We beg your pardon, and we have come back Big Abel and I." For a moment the Major stared at him in silence; then he reached out and felt him with shaking hands as if he mistrusted the vision of his eyes. "So you're back, Champe, my boy," he muttered. "My eyes are bad I thought at first that it was Dan that it was Dan." "It is I, grandpa," said Dan, slowly.
"I hope you aren't scratching up my books, sir," he observed, eying the pencil in his great-nephew's hand. Champe looked at him with his cool glance, and rose leisurely to his feet. "Why, I'd as soon think of scrawling over Aunt Emmeline's window pane," he returned pleasantly, and added, "I hope you had a successful trip, sir."
Thus it happened that John Champe, instead of crossing the Hudson that night, was safely deposited on board one of the transports, from which he never departed till the troops under Arnold landed in Virginia, Nor was he able to escape from the British army till after the junction of Lord Cornwallis, at Petersburgh, when he deserted; and passing through Virginia and North Carolina, safely joined the American army soon after it had passed the Congaree, in pursuit of Lord Rawdon.
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