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"Or had you rather I fetched a file of men up here?" "Fetch a regiment, and I shall tell you nothing unless I choose." "Good God, what folly!" I exclaimed. "For whom and for what do you take me, then, that you refuse to answer the polite and harmless question of an American officer!" "You had not so named yourself." "Very well, then; I am Euan Loskiel, Ensign in Morgan's rifle regiment!"
On Monday morning, we move through it, straight northward, following the stream, and by Monday night we scout to Catharines-town." "That is clear," he said, lifting his handsome head from his hands. "And the signal should come from me. Listen, Loskiel; you shall expect that signal between midnight of Monday and dawn."
"Loskiel," he said in my ear, "did you see that little maid in the orchard, how shyly she smiled on us?" "On you," I nodded, laughing. "Oh, you always say that," he retorted. And I always did say that, and it always pleased him. "On this accursed journey south," he complained, "the necessity for speed has spoiled our chances for any roadside sweethearts. Lord!
I looked up, surprised, and flushed; and saw how colourless and wasted his face had grown, and how in his eyes all light seemed quenched. Never have I gazed upon so hopeless and haunted a visage as he turned to me. "I walk the forests like a damned man," he said, "already conscious of the first hot breath of hell.... Well I had my chance, Loskiel." "You have it still."
"I will go down to the stream and put him under arrest until such time as his true colours may be properly determined!" "Loskiel, if yonder Indian once saw in your eye that you meant to take him, he would slip between your hands like a spotted trout and be off down stream to his comrades. Go not toward him angry, or with anything in your manner and voice that he might distrust."
Are you, then, confident that you know the way?" "I know the way, Loskiel." "Is there then a trail that leads from the Great Warrior trail below?" "There are many." "And you know the right one?" "I have spoken, brother." "I am satisfied. But we must clearly mark the trail for our surveyors and for the army."
"So I told 'em," he said, laughing, "but do you know, Loskiel, between you and me I believe that your pretty inamorata really loves the thrill of danger. And I know damned well that Lana Helmer loves it. For when we came through without so much as sighting a muskrat, 'What! says she, 'Not a savage to be seen and not a shot fired!
It was from Lois; and my heart beat the "general" so violently that for a moment it stopped my breath: "Euan Loskiel, my comrade, and my dear friend: Since you have gone, news has come that our General Wayne, with twelve hundred light infantry, stormed and took Stony Point on the Hudson on the 15th of this past month.
I drew the coiled linen roll from the breast of my rifle shirt and spread it out. We studied it, heads together. "Here lies Poundridge," nodded Boyd, placing his finger on the spot so marked. "Roads a-plenty, too. Well, it's odd, Loskiel, but in this cursed, debatable land I feel more ill at ease than I have ever felt in the Iroquois country."
"Aye if that were possible, Loskiel." "Possible!" I repeated, blankly. "Why not?" "Because," he said in a dull voice, "I shall never see another sunrise save this one that is coming presently. Let me have my fill of it unvexed by Generals and orders." "You are not well, Boyd," I said, troubled. "As well as I shall ever be but not as ill, Loskiel."
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