it is impossible to do anything with my father especially at this time for he has one of these english officers staying at the dove now who i am afraid and so is sister has come to do some mischief says i must make some appointment with you to see her privately i thought of mrs s but this englishman has a servant staying over there and may be it wouldn t do so major you will have to ride down to the big chestnut on the bank of the river just under the rock that we call the s tower � you know where that is it isn t more than two miles from here i know it well henry i will wait there patiently replied butler as he now returned to his horse haven t we been in luck said henry to get so fine a buck at last this fellow has eight branches it is s rifle tha has done it the during this conversation had taken possession of his spoil and was now busily engaged with his knife in cutting open and preparing the animal for according to the of whilst robinson stood by admiring the dexterity with which this office was performed when the buck was at last thrown by across his horse henry gave him orders to ride forward you will carry our game to your own house and don t forget to morrow to let us have the saddle at the dove and you need not say that we hare found any acquaintances upon the road you understand the man bowed his head in token of obedience and getting upon his long backed behind the buck was soon lost to view in the of the hill sister is sometimes downright melancholy said the young hunter after he had and now rode beside butler horse robinson she is troubled about you and is always telling me of some unpleasant dream i almost think she is over fanciful and then she reads everything about the army and talks almost like a man about do you know she is making a soldier of me i am constantly reading military books and and laying out just as if i was going into camp my father doesn t know a word of it his time is taken up with these english officers writing to them and every now and then there are some of them at our house knows them � a famous spy she would make isn t she an excellent girl major butler a you and i should guard her henry with more care than we guard our lives replied butler with a serious emphasis i hope returned henry she will be in better spirits after she sees you i would to heaven said butler that we all had more reason to be of good cheer than we are likely to have it is as cloudy a day henry as you may ever behold again should you live as i pray you may to the old age henry looked up towards the west there are clouds upon the sky he said and the sun has dropped below them but there is a streak of yellow light near to the line of the mountain that our wise people say is a sign that the sun will rise in beauty to morrow there is a light beyond the mountain replied butler half speaking to himself and it is the best the only sign i see of a dear to morrow i wish henry it were a brighter beam don t you know gates has passed south said henry an has some pretty fellows with him they say and ar n t we all here � every man most ask foster what i am and what will he tell me why that i am his in the mounted is the lieutenant oh i your favor brother officer good master henry and does your father allow you to ride in the ranks of the friends of liberty sister persuaded him that as i am a mere lad as she says � look at me major � a pretty well grown lad i take it there � horse shoe is no harm in my playing soldier so i ride always with foster and got me this light rifle now major i fancy i am pretty nearly as good a as rides in the corps who is this with you asked henry looking back at robinson who some distance in the rear purposely to avoid what might be deemed an intrusion upon the private conference of the two friends that is a famous soldier henry he was at the siege of and last year at he has had some hard blows and can tell you more of war than you have ever read in all your studies he wears a curious uniform said henry for a soldier what is his name robinson � or horse shoe robinson � to give him his most popular distinction but it would be well to keep his name secret i have heard of horse shoe said henry with an expression of great interest so this is the man himself from all reports he is as brave as � as who asked butler smiling at the tone of wonder which henry spoke as who i make no doubt major was about the man in the books butler laughed and applauded the young for his the road from the foot of the hill pursued the left or northern bank of the which shot along with a rapid flood over the rocks that lay scattered in its bed and the of whose flight fell upon the ear like the loud tones of the wind from either margin it was shaded by huge whose tops at this twilight hour were marked in broad lines upon the sky and whose wide spreading boughs met from side to side over the middle 