We promise you as
little trouble as possible."
"We ask no consideration of any kind from men who have come to despoil
our country and ruin its people," she said icily.
Colonel Winchester flushed.
"But madame," he protested, "we do not come to destroy."
"I do not care to argue with you about it," she said in the same lofty
tone, "and also you need not address me as madame. I am Miss Woodville."
Dick started.
"Does this house belong to Colonel John Woodville?" he asked.
"It does not," she replied crisply, "but it belongs to his elder brother,
Charles Woodville, who is also a colonel, and who is my father. What do
you know of Colonel John Woodville?"
"I met his son once," replied Dick briefly.
She glanced at him sharply. Dick thought for a moment that he saw alarm
in her look, but he concluded that it was only anger.
They stood confronting each other, the little group of officers and the
woman, and Colonel Winchester, embarrassed, but knowing that he must do
something, went forward and pushed back a door opening into the hall.
Dick automatically followed him, and then stepped back, startled.
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