"
Claiborne groaned mockingly.
"I suppose I'll know what it's all about when I read it in the morning
papers. I like the game well enough, but it might be more amusing to know
what the devil I'm fighting for."
"You enlisted without reading the articles of war, and you've got to take
the consequences. You've done what you set out to do--you've found me;
and you're traveling with me over the Virginia mountains to report my
capture to Baron von Marhof. On the way you are going to assist in
another affair that will be equally to your credit; and then if all goes
well with us I'm going to give myself the pleasure of allowing Monsieur
Chauvenet to tell you exactly who I am. The incident appeals to my sense
of humor--I assure you I have one! Of course, if I were not a person of
very great distinction Chauvenet and his friend Durand would not have
crossed the ocean and brought with them a professional assassin, skilled
in the use of smothering and knifing, to do away with me. You are in luck
to be alive. We are dangerously near the same size and build--and in the
dark--on horseback--"
"That was funny.
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