Note: This part of the story is told from the P.O.V of Colonel Tavington.

I had been waiting a little ways down the hallway for the Lord General to call me into his office. I heard a light thud, which was no doubt one of the children passing out. A few seconds after the first, another thump could be heard. General O'Hara stuck his head out the door and motioned for me to come in. I entered the room and found Eric with his head on the table, and Carrie on the floor by the window.

"Tavington you take her," Cornwallis instructed me," O'Hara take the boy."

"Take them into the shed out in back,"hesaid after a quick pause," Tavington, you stay in there with them in case they wake up. O'Hara you come and find me once you have finished with him."

I picked Carrie up off the ground, and turned around. O'Hara had flung Eric over his shoulder, and was already hurrying out of the room towards the back door of the house. I followed him quickly with the drugged child swaying limply in my arms. There was a small shed just a little ways from the house, and from where the Lord General and the 'Ghost' would be standing, the shed would look like it couldn't fit anything but garden tools in it. We took them into it, and layed them down on the ground. Without speaking a word, O'Hara ran out of the shed, and shut the door behind him. I looked at Eric and Carrie. It was a shame we had to do that to them, but there was a large chance that they would have run outside to that man, and begged him to take them with him. Now that we did this once, we might have to continue doing it, because it was a sure thing that they would now definitely try to run.

I remembered the look on the Lord General's face when he recieved that letter this morning. It was a paniced look, and when I asked what was wrong he merely threw the letter at me.

I have recieved news that you have two children in your custody,the letter had said,If it is true I'm sure that we can come to some sort of agreement on a trade. The two children for something you want.

I didn't read the rest of the letter. I knew from reading that much that the 'Ghost' was going to come here. The Lord General wouldn't hear of it, so he set everything up so that the children wouldn't suspect. He asked me to give them something to do as usual, and then he asked them up for tea, and then they were drugged. I could hear vioces by the gates. The shed wan't too far from the manor.

"I can assure you there are no children here that come from a rebel family," I heard Cornwallis say," In fact, there are no children here at all."

"Forgive me sir," I heard the Ghost reply," but one of my men were there when a plantation was burned, and he says he saw one of your Colonel's take a little girl and a boy out of the woods surrounding the house."

"Yes," Cornwallis said," he brought them here, but I told him to let them go. He took them to the nearest village."

There was silence. I took a glance out the small window on the door, and saw the Ghost with his head pointed towards the ground, and the Lord General watching him carefully. I could have sworn I saw his eyes flicker in the direction of the shed.

"You may search the house of you do not believe me," Cornwallis said.

"I think I'll do that," the Ghost said. I looked out again and saw the Ghost,O'Hara, and Cornwallis disappear in the house.

I sat watching the children for at least thirty minutes before Cornwallis and his company came back out.

There was a sigh behind me. Carrie was waking up.

"Eric," she screamed," Eric they drugged the tea."

She started to get up. Over at the house I could see the Ghost pointing towards the shed. I ran over and grabbed Carrie, pushed her back on the floor, and covered her mouth. She continued to kick and struggle, but I was much older, and much stronger, therefore her attempts seemed almost effortless. I heard voices outside the shed, and I knew that if she kept struggling, they would hear her.

"Shut-up," I said pointing my pistol at her. Her eyes flashed a fearful look at the pistol, and she stopped struggling. A shaddow past in front of the door, and disappeared just as quickly. I looked back at Carrie who had tears going down her cheeks as she watched the shadows pass the door. I kept my left hand firmly over her mouth, and with my right hand lifted her into a sitting position. I pointed my pistol back at her head.

"Don't move a muscle," I said to her.

"I guess I'm just hearing things," the Ghost said. The footsteps grew fainter. Carrie started sobbing. She wrenched free of me, and went over to her brother. I'm assuming she thought the door was locked. I watched her as she layed her head on her brothers chest and closed her eyes. In moments she was sleeping again. Erics arm twitched and it wrapped around Carrie. He would be waking up very soon.