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"Why not aily

"By God, we may do that yet to the tune they choose for us!" blurted out Sir Henry

"Ifrom his handsome face

"I knohat you meant," returned Sir Henry wearily "But that is what they wish I haven't the entle slowly to and fro on his polished heels, buried in reflection; but I, who stood a little to one side, could see his fingers clasped loosely behind his back, nervously working and picking at one another

"What do they expect?" he said suddenly, lifting his head but looking at no one--"what do they expect of land? I have not twelve thousand effectives, and of these not nine thousand fit for duty They have eleven thousand, counting the French, not a dozen miles north of us Suppose I attack? Suppose I beat theer posted than before I can not pass the Harle, unless I leave here in New York a garrison of at least six thousand regulars This gives ulars for a sortie" He moved his head slowly, his eyes traveled from one to another with that heavy, dazed expression which saw nothing

"Thirty thousand le bridge left across the Harleentleht have in an atteton's army must be if he advances In formal council, Generals Kniphausen, Birch, and Robertson sustain ht, I am prepared to suffer injustice and calumny in silence from my detractors here in New York and at hohted the: "I have listened to a very strange proposition froentleman you presented to me, Sir Peter His ideas of civilized warfare and mine do not run in like channels"

"So I should iuest, and at his pressing solicitation I ith him to wait upon you"

Sir Henry sh without heat

"My dear friend," said the general gently, "are you to blauished hie of every officer present; the name of Cherry Valley was not pleasant to New York ears