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They's lots o' good, friendly folks here, but I'm ready to go hum. They's a ship leaves Dover Thursday 'fore sunrise an' my name is put down." Jack told them in detail of the unfortunate event of the morning. Solomon whistled while his face began to get ready for a shot. "Neevarious!" he exclaimed. "Here's suthin' that'll have to be 'tended to 'fore I take the water."
It didn't mount to nothin'. The Doctor washed it off an' put a plaster on. "'Looks as if he'd drawed a line on yer heart an' yer bullet had lifted his aim, I says. 'Ye shoot quick, Jack, an' mebbe that's what saved ye. "It looked kind o' neevarious like that 'ere Englishman had intended they was goin' to be one Yankee less.
He jumped up very supple. He wasn't asleep. He had knowed better than to swaller a yard o' meat. "Whar was the wimmen? I knowed that a part o' the band would be back in the bush with them 'ere wimmen. I'd seed suthin' in the trail over by the drownded lands that looked kind o' neevarious. It were like the end o' a wooden leg with an iron ring at the bottom an' consid'able weight on it.
Ahead in the distance they had heard voices and the neighing of a horse. "My son," said Solomon as he pointed with his finger, "do you see the brow o' the hill yonder whar the black thickets be?" Jack nodded. "If ye hear to me yell stay this side. This 'ere business is kind o' neevarious. I'm a-goin' clus up. If I come back ye'll hear the call o' the bush owl.
Jack was to pass the lines on the northeast front in the vicinity of Breed's Hill with a British sergeant, under a white flag, and proceed to Washington's headquarters. "Looks kind o' neevarious," said Solomon when they were out in the jail yard together. "Looks like ye might be grabbed in the jaws o' a trap. Nobody's name is signed to this 'ere paper.
He stepped close to the desk, swallowed nervously and began his whispered report. "Suthin' neevarious be goin' on," he began. "A British ship were lyin' nigh the mouth o' the Croton River. Arnold went aboard. An' officer got into his boat with him an' they pulled over to the west shore and went into the bush. Stayed thar till mos' night.
Deviltry is lookin' fer them an' when they git together thar's trouble." Solomon stopped, now and then, to peer off into the bush as he talked while the dusk was falling. Suddenly he put his finger to his lips. His keen eyes had detected a movement in the shadowy trail. "Hide an' horns o' the devil!" he exclaimed in a low tone. "This 'ere may be suthin' neevarious.
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