a slightly repressed sympathy. They directed his attention

with meaning looks to the counter-proclamation of the

Americans. They made him understand by the pressure of their

hands that they also were on the side of liberty.

As he did not hurry, he met several officers, but they wisely

affected not to see what they did not wish to see. For Doctor

Worth was a person to whom very wide latitude might be given.

To both the military and the civilians his skill was a