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Carrick's tone raised a question. "Why? Don't you?" "Oh, I don't know, sir. They've all taken it on the run for some reason or other. Maybe the Krovitch army is already mobilized." "Egad, Carrick, that is a possibility. I never thought of that. Suppose I expected them to wait for us. We don't want to miss the opening gun. Hump her up for all she's worth. Full speed and never mind the jolts."
It was long before he returned, and when he did, his manner indicated wonder and agitation. "I am nae seer gin ye be Edie Ochiltree o' Carrick's company in the Forty-twa, or gin ye be the deil in his likeness!" "And what makes ye speak in that gait?" demanded the astonished mendicant. "Because my lord has been in sic a distress and surpreese as I neer saw a man in my life.
There was a pond gleaming among the trees. "He leadeth me beside the still waters," he said aloud to himself, and then Carrick's footsteps were audible behind him. He turned. Carrick came up swiftly. "Don't eat much dinner to-morrow night," he said, with immense seriousness. "It's more hypnotism, then?" inquired Mr. Newman. Carrick nodded. "Yes," he said. "But it's a big thing, all the same."
It was impossible now to turn back; Carrick's flying column must be very close on her heels by this time somewhere yonder in the dusk, paralleling her own course, with only a dark curtain of forest intervening.
All this passed through her mind in a moment. "My dear Francis, I will freely admit that the beatings of my heart are not altogether without cause; I have been somewhat disturbed, but it will not signify; I shall be quite well in a moment but where did you come from?" "They told me you had gone up to poor Widow Carrick's and I took the short way, thinking to find you there.
Edward had too much good sense to echo any one of them; but turning to Bruce, with a sensation of shame he would gladly have repressed, he said that, in consideration of his youth, he would pardon him what had passed, and reinstate him in all the late Earl of Carrick's honors, if he would immediately declare where he had hidden the offending minstrel.
Newman shook his head. "I don't know," he answered, unmoved by Carrick's fervor. "I can't tell you that. But you leave me where you found me in the hands of my God." With the same quiet cheerfulness, he crossed to the big chair, turned it to face the wall, and sat down in it. "I'm quite ready," he said. Carrick was still standing by the table.
For some subtle reason he was very uneasy. Since Carrick's assertion that a stranger had purloined valuable papers from his father, the Gray Man had seemed to fear an unexpected revelation of some sort. Sobieska seemed to scent this secret fear and was willing to play with Josef's susceptibility.
And that was true in more senses than one, for I did not know where to turn to for money for my own uses. At last Carrick gave it me he had given me a trifle or two before, of five pounds or so, of no use and then I had to wait an opportunity of sending it to London to be posted. Carrick's departure afforded that.
Following up this initial success, McClellan threw additional forces across the Ohio, and about a month later had the good fortune, on July 11, by a flank movement under Rosecrans, to drive a regiment of the enemy out of strong intrenchments on Rich Mountain, force the surrender of the retreating garrison on the following day, July 12, and to win a third success on the thirteenth over another flying detachment at Carrick's Ford, one of the crossings of the Cheat River, where the Confederate General Garnett was killed in a skirmish-fire between sharp-shooters.
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