"
"Perhaps you would like to satisfy yourself, General," said Colonel
Lagrange, with an ironical laugh. "Pray do not hesitate on account of
our uniform. Search us if you like."
"Not on entering my lines, Colonel," replied Brant, with quiet
significance.
Lagrange's cheek flushed. But he recovered himself quickly, and with a
formal bow said,--
"You will, then, perhaps, let us know your pleasure?"
"My DUTY, Colonel, is to keep you both close prisoners here until I have
an opportunity to forward you to the division commander, with a report
of the circumstances of your arrest. That I propose to do. How soon I
may have that opportunity, or if I am ever to have it," continued Brant,
fixing his clear eyes significantly on Lagrange, "depends upon the
chances of war, which you probably understand as well as I do."
"We should never think of making any calculation on the action of an
officer of such infinite resources as General Brant," said Lagrange
ironically.
"You will, no doubt, have an opportunity of stating your own case to the
division commander," continued Brant, with an unmoved face. "And," he
continued, turning for the first time to Captain Faulkner, "when you
tell the commander what I believe to be the fact--from your name and
resemblance--that you are a relation of the young lady who for the
last three weeks has been an inmate of this house under a pass from
Washington, you will, I have no doubt, favorably explain your own
propinquity to my lines.
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