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Joseph Alexander Altsheler
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New York : D. Appleton and Company, c1897
...I was near the top of the hill when I saw Kate Van Auken coming to meet me.
" Good morning, Dick," she said.
" Good morning, Mistress Catherine," I replied.
It had been my habit to call her Kate when we were children together, but I could not quite manage it now.
" You are set as a guard upon us? " she said.
" To protect you from harm," I replied with my most gallant air.
" Your manners are improving," she said in what I thought rather a disdainful tone.
" I must search the house," I continued.
" You call that protecting us? " she said with the same touch of sarcasm.
" Nevertheless it must be done," I said, speaking in my most positive manner.
She led the way without further demur. Now I had every confidence in Kate Van Auken. I considered her as good a patriot as myself, though all her family were Tory. It did not seem to me to be at all likely that any spy or messenger of the British had reached the concealment of the house, but it was my duty to be sure.
" Perhaps you would not care to talk to my...
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