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speaker, and then at the written examination which 

 the squire handed to him. 



" This is your department, Captain Percy," said 

 he ; " be pleased to do the needful." 



The officer looked over the paper, and called an 

 orderly. 



" Let this young man be kept in strict confinement. 

 A sentinel with loaded musket before his door, and 

 no one to have access to him." 



" I really do not know which is the most suspicious," 

 said the general ; " this spy, as he is called, or the 

 queer customers who have just walked away." 



Squire Copeland had heard with some discontent 

 the quick decided orders given by the captain of 

 regulars. 



" All that might be spared," said he. " He's as 

 nice a lad as ever I saw. I was sitting yesterday at 

 breakfast, when a parcel of my fellows, who are half 

 horse, half alligator, and a trifle beyond, came tum- 

 bling into the house as if they would have pulled it 

 down. Didn't know what it meant, till Joe Drum 

 and Sam Shad brought the younker before me, and 

 wanted to make him out a spy. I had half a mind 

 to treat the thing as nonsense ; but as we sat at 

 table he let out something about Tokeah ; and when 

 the women spoke of Rosa you know who I mean, 

 Colonel Parker ; Rosa, whom I've so often told you 

 of he got as red as any turkey-cock. Thinks I to 

 myself, 'tisn't all right; better take him with you. 



