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"Have you anything for Colonel Willett?" he asked, after a pause

"Tell him that I sent despatches this very day Tell him of Butler's visit here, and of his present plans If I can learn where this Thendara lies I rite him at once That is all, I think"

I shook their hands, one by one

"Have a care, sir," warned the Weasel as we parted "This Walter Butler is a great villain, and, like all knaves, suspicious If he once should harboryou, he would never leave your trail until he had you at his mercy We know him, Jack and I And I say, God keep you from that man's enmity or suspicion Good-by, Mr Renault"

I retained his hand, gazing earnestly into his faded, kindly eyes

"Do you know aught reflecting on his honor?" I asked

"I know of Cherry Valley," he replied sis with ht?"

"He is so considered, though they would have hanged hi Lafayette taken pity on him and had hi illness Once uncaged, he gnawed through, and was off to the Canadas in no ti to repay tenfold every moment's misery he spent in jail He did repay--at Cherry Valley Think, sir, what bloody ghosts ht--unless he be all demon and not human at all, as some aver Yet he has a wife, they say----"

"What!"

"He has a wife," repeated Mount--"or a mistress It's all one to him"

"Where?" I asked quietly

"She was at Guy Park, the Oneidas told me; and when Sullivan moved on Catharinestown she fled with all that Tory rabble, they say, to Butlersbury, and from thence to the north--God knohere! I saw her once; she is French, I think--and very young--a beauty, sir, with hair like ht, and two black stars for eyes I have seen an Oneida girl with such eyes" He shrugged his shoulders "Walter Butler makes little of woust

I was silent

"We go north by Valentine's and North Castle, the Albany road being unhealthy traveling at night," said Mount, with a grin; "and I think, Cade, we'd best pull foot I trust, Mr Renault, that you race any friends of ours Come, Cade, old friend, our fair accos and trot! Au large!"