n. It is unanimous. Now, I think we are a
little hard upon you; so pray go on with your dinner."

"I don't think his arrest will last long, sir," said Captain Murray,
after a while.

"Pooh! No: I'm afraid not," said the colonel; "and we shall lose our
young friend's company. The Prince is a good soldier himself, even if
he is a German. Gowan will hear no more of it, I should say; and I
don't want to raise his hopes unduly, but on the strength of this
rising, when we want all good supporters of his Majesty in their places,
I should say that the occasion will be made one for sending word to
Captain Sir Robert Gowan to come back to his company."

Frank flushed again, and looked at Captain Murray, who smiled and
nodded.

"By the way, Murray," said the colonel, "why did you not bring the other
young desperado to dinner?" The captain shrugged his shoulders. "A bit
sulky," he said. "Feels himself ill-used."

"Oh!" ejaculated the colonel; and seeing Frank's troubled face, he
changed the conversation, beginning to talk about the news of a rising
in the north, where certain officers were reported to have landed, and
where the Pretender, James Francis, was expected to place himself at
their head, and march for London.

"A foolish, mad project, I say, gentlemen," exclaimed the colonel; "and
whatever my principles may have been, I am a staunch servant of his
Majesty King George the First, and the enemy of all who try and disturb
the peace of the realm."

A burst of applause followed these words; and the conversation became
general, giving Frank the opportunity for thinking over the colonel's
words, and of what a triumph it would be for his father to return and
take up his old position.

"Poor old Drew!" he said to himself, with a sigh. "What would he think
if he heard them talking about its being a mad project?"

Then he went on thinking about how miserable his old companion must be
in the guardroom, watched by sentries; and as he kept on eating for
form's sake, every mouthful seemed to go against him, and he wished the
dinner was over. For, in addition to these thoughts, others terribly
painful would keep troubling him, the place being full of sad memories.
He recalled that he was sitting in the very seat occupied by the German
baron upon that unlucky evening; and the whole scene of the angry
encounter came vividly back, even to the words that were spoken. The
natural sequence to this was his being called by A