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"By Heavens, Charlie, who'd think Does Sir William know of ?" "'S death!" cried Jack, facing about, and meeting the questioner eye to eye. "Canst not hold thy tongue, man?" Then he went on less excitedly: "I am Leftenant-Colonel John Brereton, aide-de-camp to his Excellency General Washington."
"In an hour, colonel," he said, "and as I am broken down, I will sleep." With these words, Nighthawk leaned back in his split-bottom chair, covered his face with his handkerchief, and in ten seconds his long, quiet breathing showed plainly that he was asleep. "A cur'ous man, leftenant-colonel! a cur'ous man is Mr. Nighthawk!" said Mr. Alibi.
"The fall in our paper money gives a leftenant-colonel a lean scrip in these days, but what little I have is yours," he said. "I can't take it," protested Janice, trying to return the wallet. Brereton was at the door ere her hand was outstretched. "Thy father's letters to me are in the purse, so thou must keep it," he urged.
"My name, Fred, is John Brereton," corrected the officer, "which is a change for the better, I think you will own. As for my clothes, I'll better them, too, if Congress ever gives us enough pay to do more than keep life in us. Owing to depreciation, a leftenant-colonel is allowed to starve at present on the equivalent of twenty-five dollars, specie, a month."
"That quiet young man is not him. 'T is the heavy-nosed man is his Excellency." "Nonsense!" retorted the bondsman. "That loud-voiced fellow is Leftenant-Colonel Lee, a half-pay officer. Many and many 's the time I've seen him and if I had n't, I'd have known the other for the general in a hundred." "I tell yer yer're wrong," moaned the hotel-keeper.
I have heard of you from a friend of yours." "Eh! And who mout that be, colonel?" "Mr. Nighthawk. Have you seen him lately?" "Na a a w," said Mr. Alibi, with a prolonged drawl through his nose, and flapping his arms in an uncouth fashion, "I ain't seen him for a long spell now." "Nor Swartz, either?" Mr. Alibi looked keenly at me. "Na a a w, nor him nuther, leftenant-colonel."
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