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He paused and, in spite of herself,
heT eyes flashed toward the door.
ErsKine saw it, drew himself erect,
\ llowed and strobe straight out. Nor
did the irony of the situation so
much as cross his mind-that he
should be turned from his own home
By the woman he loved and to whom
he had given that home Nor did
he look baek-else he might have
seen her sink, sobbing, to the floor.
XXI
Up the James rode Erskine, hiding
in u the woods by day and slip
ping cautiously along the sandy
road by night, eircling about Tarle-
TOMS camp-fires, or dashing at full
speed past some careless sentinel.
On the third morning he came
upon a ragged sentinel-an Ameri-
tan. Ten minutes later he got his
first glimpse Of Lafayette, and then
he had hailed joyfully by none 9TH
er than Dave Yandeil, Captain Dave
Yandell, shorn of his woodsman's
dress and panoplied in the trappings
If war;
But late in August came the mes
cage chat put Washington's great
soul in arms, Rochambeau had
landed six thousand soldiers in Con
1leeticut, and now Count de Grasse
-as14ss French fleet had sailed for the
tines ane5Te
General Washington at once re-
sorted to camouflage. lie laid out
s camps ostentatiously opposite New
York and in plain sight of the enemy.
He made feigned attack on their
posts Rochambeau moved south and
reached the Delaware before the
British grasped the Yankee trick.
Then it was too late. The windows
OF Philadelphia were filled with la
dies waving handkerchiefs and crying
bfa9des when the tattered Continen-
tails, their clothes thick with dust but
halls Flumed with sprigs of green,
marched through amid their torn
battlestiaes and rumbling cannon.
Behind followed the French in
guy white uniforms faced with
gfvetg,s ard martial music throbbed
the air.
ls7Ha the Chesapeake they Went
snstFansp0rts and were Concentrated
Vt Williamsburg before the close OF
'scpteinbsf CORVALLIS had erected
N wsrkss for he knew nothing OF Wash
n nj u 4
sIsd Anthony and General Nelson,
Mho were south of the James to pre-
vent escape into North Carolina.
Then came de Grasse, who drove
off the British fleet, and the mouth
Ut the net was closed.
CORVALLIS heard the cannon and
sent Clinton to appeal for help, but
the answer was Washington himeslt
at the head of his army And then
The Joyous march.
AT williamsburg the allies gath
cred, and with Washington's arm,
ealne Colonel Dale, now a genera
sud young Captain Harry Dale, VIII
had brought news from Philadelphia
That was of great interest to Erskint
Date. In chat town Dane Grey hat
been amlose intimate of Andre, and
that intimacy had been the cause oil
fntch speculation since.
He had told Dave of his mother
and Early Mon and Dave had told
Finn gravely that he must go get
them after the campaign was oven
and bring them to the fort in Ken
lucky: If Early Morn stull refused
to come, then he must bring his
mother, and he reckoned grimly that
no mouth would open a word that
could offend her.
IN mid-September Washington
came. and General Dale had But one
assisssss to visit Barbara. Erskines
plea that he was too busy to go with
thenaE aroused Harry's suspicious
and he went bluntly to the point
You wouldn't go to Red Oaks an,
Barbara did not seem surprised. l
Dane Grey concerned"
Eyes"
Harry looked searchingly at hi