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"Good God," he cried, forgetting his danger in his astonishment, "Eben the Spy!" But the man lay limp in Stair's grasp. He appeared to have fainted. However, Stair knew a cure for that. He took a handful of the harsh half-melted sugar-loaf snow and rubbed the spy's face hard. Then he pulled him up into a sitting position. "Come, Eben," he growled, "no malingering! I have no time to waste on you.
Being but a halt-point en route in the northward march, it was not fortified; indeed, for the matter of that, the camp proper was a little way without the town, as I have said. I rode slowly across the common, skirting the commissary's quarters and making mental notes of all I saw; this from soldier habit solely, for at the time I had little thought of living on to make a spy's use of them.
The delay at Malta was to allow Miss Hidalgo to make her appearance in the Supreme Court as principal witness against the baker, Giuseppe Pisani, commonly called Valetta Joe. The British military authorities in the Crimea had hesitated to deal summarily with the spy's offence.
What might not Poland have accomplished with such a leader as Boleski had been before this baneful passion fell upon him! Then he conjured up the? imaged faces of the brave Frenchmen who were betrayed by Harietta to Hans, and shot in Germany. A spy's death in war time was not an ignoble one, and they had gone there with their lives in their hands.
"Captain," he said, acknowledging the officer's salute, "this man is a Yankee spy captured inside our lines with incriminating papers on him. He has confessed. How is the weather?" "The storm is over, sir, and the moon shining." "Good; take a file of men, conduct him at once to the parade ground, and shoot him." A sharp cry broke from the spy's lips.
I do not desire to drown that poor mad woman, but if you confirm the spy's story, drown she must. At present I am not satisfied, so everything turns upon your evidence. I do not know what passed between you this afternoon, and personally I do not care, only, if you should chance to have no clear recollection of the matter alleged, I must make one or two little stipulations very little ones.
The rest of you will remain here until we return, or until you find it necessary to retreat across the river." "Very good, sir," said Bristow, and fell back and informed his companions of the situation. "Do you realize," asked Lieutenant Anderson of Hal, "that if we are captured in these German uniforms it will mean a spy's death for all of us?"
"And he said, I have been very jealous for the Lord God of hosts." Now, it so happened that some of Mr. Prywell's most private and not at all professional papers papers evidently, and on the face of them, connected with the state of the spy's own soul came into my hands as good lot would have it just the other night.
Then it was, with the lieutenant temporarily disabled as a result of his experience, that the three boys from Brighton, who seemed somehow to have been selected by Fate as the despoilers of all the spy's plans, put their heads together to devise a scheme of capture.
No other evidence whatever was adduced, except the written report of a spy of the police, who testified that the duke received many emigrants at his table at Ettenheim, and occasionally left the castle for several days together, without the spy's being able to trace where he was: a circumstance sufficiently explained by the duke's custom of hunting in the Black Forest.
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