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"That's three

"Well, sir, which are you for?"

"And you, Elsin?"

"No, sir, you shall choose"

"Then, if it lies with me, I choose the stars and courtship," I said politely

"I wonder," she said, "why you choose it--with a ainst you--the pretty coers, and the defense, face covered? Is not the sport to overcome all these, nor halt short of the reluctant lips, still fluttering in voiceless protest?"

"Where did you hear all that?" I asked, piqued yet laughing

"Rosah warned, I let you have your ith me there in the chaise Oh, I am an apt pupil, Carus, with Captain Butler in full control of my mind and you of my body"

"Have you seen him yet?" I asked

"No; he has not appeared to claiallant pair of courtiers I have found in you and him----"

"Couple our na at me in astonishment

"Have you quarreled?" she asked

I did not answer We had descended the barrack-stairs and were entering the parade Dark figures in pairs ht of the battle-lanthorns set We rass, and later Sir Henry, pacing the sod alone, hen he saw me, motioned me to stop, and drew a paper from his breast

"Sir Peter and Lady Coleville's pass for Westchester, which he desired and I forgot Will you be good enough to hand it to hiht--it is close to two o'clock, and I o"

He took a courtly leave of us, then wandered away, head bent, pacing the parade as though he kept account of each slow step

"Yonder comes Knyphausen, too, and Birch," I said, as the Gered from the casemates, followed by Birch and a raft of officers, spurs clanking

We stood watching the Hessians as they passed in the la blue and yellow, and their long boots; soldiers with black queues in eelskin, tinyblack, buttoned spatter-dashes strapped at instep and thigh

"Let us ascend to the parapets," she said, looking up at the huge, dark silhouette above where the southeast bastion jutted seaward

A sentry brought his piece to support as ent by hi the inclined artillery road, whence we presently came out upon the ramparts, with the vast sweep of star-set firhts on one side, and upon the other two great rivers at their trysting with the ht ocean