CHAPTER V—EXAMINATION.

When Captain Bent entered the galleried room with his prisoner, he found Cromwell seated at the table, his head bowed over some pages of manuscript on which he was busily writing. The General did not look up for a full minute, until he had finished the sentence he was inditing, then he raised his head and said quietly to the captain: “Go.” For one brief and lamentable instant the discipline which held the captain in its bonds relaxed, and he replied in surprise,— “And leave him unguarded, sir?” Cromwell said nothin…