ple of the presiding officer, and became purchasers of the
greater part of the store before them. When this traffic was concluded,
the little huckster took up her burden and retired towards the group of
spectators. Seeing the prisoner in this quarter, she walked up to him,
curtsied, and presented him an apple, which was gratefully accepted, and
the proffered return, from him, in money, refused.

When about a quarter of an hour had elapsed, Butler was resummoned to
his seat, and the court again proceeded to business. The inquiry now
related to the second charge--that, namely, which imputed to the
prisoner the character of a spy in his visit at Adair's. To this
accusation, Captain Hugh Habershaw and several of his troop were called
as witnesses. The amount of testimony given by them was, that, on the
eleventh of the month, they had received information that a Continental
officer, whose real name and title was Major Butler, but who was
travelling in disguise and under an assumed name, from the Catawba
towards the Broad River, in company with a well known, stark Whig--a
certain Horse Shoe Robinson--was expected in a few days to arrive at Wat
Adair's. That Habershaw, hoping to intercept them, had scoured the
country between the two rivers; but that the travellers had eluded the
search, by taking a very circuitous and unfrequented route towards the
upper part of Blair's Range and Fishing Creek. That, on the night of the
twelfth, the two men arrived at Adair's, unmolested; and, on the morning
of the thirteenth, some of the woodman's family had met Habershaw and
apprised him of this fact; adding, further, that the prisoner had
offered a bribe to Adair, to induce him to give information in regard to
the loyalist troops in the neighborhood, with a view to communicate it
to a certain Colonel Clarke, who had appointed to meet Butler and his
companion somewhere on the upper border of the province. That, in
consequence of this attempt, Adair had directed the prisoner towards
Grindall's Ford; and, this intelligence being communicated to the
witness, he had conducted his troop to that place, where he succeeded in
arresting the prisoner and his comrade, with the loss of two men in the
struggle. The narrative then went on to give the particulars of Horse
Shoe's escape, and the other facts with which the reader is acquainted.
This account was corroborated by several witnesses, and, amongst the
rest, by Curry.

Butler heard the testimony