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Gonder: "I should like to know who sent you." Lieutenant Irvin: "But has no one passed or stopped here, answering my description?" Both ladies were now considerably worked up; the younger scarcely suppressed her amusement. "Come, ladies," said Lieutenant Irvin, "I see you both know more than you will confess." "If I do, I will die before I tell it," naïvely replied the elder.
Worthen tried to persuade the young man to get down and take some plums. He was evidently anxious to detain him. Finally he eyed the stranger more closely, and, convinced that he was the companion whom Toombs expected, he confessed that General Toombs had been at his place and was then at the home of Major Gonder in Washington County.
"Now I know you know where General Toombs is." "Then get it out of me if you can." Finally the young man persuaded her that he was the friend of Toombs, and Mrs. Gonder reluctantly directed him to Colonel Jack Smith's over on the Oconee River. Riding up to Colonel Smith's, his valiant pursuer spied General Toombs through the window.
Reaching the home of Major Gonder late in the evening, he rode up to the front fence, fifty yards from the dwelling. Mrs. Gonder and her daughter were sitting on the piazza. Lieutenant Irvin asked the usual question about the old man and the gray horse. The lady replied that she knew nothing about them. Lieutenant Irvin said: "But I was directed to this place." Mrs.
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