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12 know where he can make an attack with the greatest chance of success."

"And would he tell the British general anything about our people who are trying to be free?" Sarah asked in surprise.

"Certainly, my dear. If yonder man really be a spy, then he has come here to learn all he can to advantage the king's soldiers, and to work our undoing."

"He must be very wicked, and I hope he will be caught!" Dorothy cried decidedly.

"The poor man is doing that which he believes to be right, and if he is captured, our people will surely hang him, for such is the punishment dealt out to spies."

"Then I wish he might be almost caught," Dorothy replied after reflection. "Then, perhaps, he would be so frightened that he'd never do such a thing again."

The noise of the chase died away in the distance, and no one came that way who could give information as to whether the fugitive had been captured.

It was to Dorothy and Sarah as if no less than three full days elapsed before Mistress Dean decided that it was time to make ready for the evening, and Sarah went home with an invitation for her mother to call at Hanover square when