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Here are the letters, Miss Osborne; you see I have kept my promise,” and he reached out the package to her. But before she could take them they were snatched from Haines’s hand, and a stern voice said, “I will take the letters, please.”
After you get the guard posted, we will search the house.” As the Sergeant was executing his orders, Mr. Osborne came out of the house, and approaching the troop, to Lieutenant Haines’s surprise, gave him a cordial greeting. “I cannot say I am rejoiced to see you again,” he exclaimed, with a smile, “except you come in peace.
“What was Lieutenant Haines’s adventure you spoke of?” at length asked Miss Osborne of her father. “Better let the Lieutenant tell the story, for I know nothing of it,” answered Mr. Osborne; “but he spoke of searching the house for a supposed concealed Confederate.” As Mr.
“That is not all,” returned Haines. “By some means the house took fire and burned with all its contents. I did all I could for them—tried to save Mr. Osborne, but could not; but I will not relax my efforts to have him released. I have some powerful friends in the North.” Calhoun thanked him, and went his way. But that look which came over Haines’s face, what did it mean?
Had a bombshell exploded at Lieutenant Haines’s feet he would not have been more surprised, and his surprise changed to consternation when he found himself looking into the muzzle of a revolver. Lieutenant Haines was no coward, but he was unarmed save his sword, and there was no mistaking the look in Calhoun’s eye. It meant death if he attempted to draw his sword. As for Mr.
“Down in Tennessee, when you got away with Lieutenant Haines’s horse so slick.” Calhoun’s face darkened. “Did you have anything to do with the persecution of the Osbornes?” he asked, threateningly. “Not I. That was the blamedest, meanest trick I ever knew Haines to do. But he was dead gone on the girl. I half believe he would have turned Reb if he could have got her.”
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