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"I aan abruptly, "of my own idea No one, not even Sir Henry, is aware that I am in New York I ca at Coenties Slip a-smack in ti he was here--cock-fighting!" A trace of a sneer edged his finely cut nostrils

"If you desire concealment, is it wise to wear that unifor-line, not in this peaceful garrison of New York," he said haughtily "We of the landed gentry of Tryon County make as little of New York as New York makes of us!" A deeper sneer twitched his upper lip "Had I my way, this port should be burned fro, dock--all, even to the fararrison esture toward the north "I should fling every un pell-mell on that rebels' rat-nest called West Point, and uproot and tear it from the mountain flank! I should sweep the Hudson with fire; I should hurl these rotting regi ember, and I should tread the embers into the red-wet earth! That is the way to make war! But this--" He stared south across the litter, spires swi off shores of living green

"Mr Renault," he said, "I am here to submit this plan to Sir Henry Clinton Lord Cornwallis advocated the abandone it If Sir Henry will approve, then the war ends before the snow flies; if he will not, I still shall act my part, and lay the north in ashes so that not one ear of corn rain of wheat be milled, not a truss of hay re in the north but blackened desolation and the silence of annihilation That is how I make war"

"That is your reputation," I said calh without sound, that touched neither eyes nor reat babel of voices from the tavern He rose instantly, I also; the stable-lads were bringing up the horses; the tavern door was flung wide, and out of it poured the cockers, a turbulent river of scarlet and gold, the noisy voices and laughter increasing to tule of spur and scabbard, draining the stirrup-cup and hastening to their duties