TON

Certainly!

HONEYMAN

An' that's the why I wouldn't tell none o' yer men what my name er my
business was.

WASHINGTON

Mr. Honeyman, you've shown extraordinary good sense! You're exactly the
man I've been looking for! I'm in desperate need of reliable
information. And I believe you're the man to get it for me.

HONEYMAN

I cal'ate I be.

WASHINGTON

Have you any information now?

HONEYMAN

A mite.

WASHINGTON

Well?

HONEYMAN

Lord Cornwallis is bringin' 15,000 men across the Hudson tonight, to git
ye.

WASHINGTON

We'll be gone.

HONEYMAN

That's fu'st-rate! Now I'll be goin'--an' I'll keep ye informed when I
know anything ye ought to know.

WASHINGTON

Just a moment, Honeyman. How are you going to get your information to
me?

HONEYMAN

Wal', I figger I might come to see ye--

WASHINGTON

No, you'd be sure to excite suspicion.

HONEYMAN

I'd be as keerful as could be.

WASHINGTON

No--I mustn't even let my own men know you're working for me.

HONEYMAN

Wal'--ye might have me captured now an' agin--tell yer men I'm a
notorious Tory--an' have 'em be on the lookout fer me particular! Then
when I've got something fer ye, I'll put myself in the way o' gittin'
captured.

WASHINGTON

Good! That's an excellent idea. I'll have to give you a pretty bad name
with my troops.

HONEYMAN

Pshaw--I don't mind that, sir.

WASHINGTON

And I don't know how I can reward you.

HONEYMAN

I don't need no reward to help ye, General Washington, I got a duty to
do that!--There's only jest one thing, sir--

WASHINGTON

Yes?

HONEYMAN

I'd sorta--er--kinda like my wife an' children protected from
the--wal'--the results o' my bein' an active an' notorious Tory.

WASHINGTON

Of course.

HONEYMAN

Ye see, I don't mind what folks think o' me, but Marthy--that's my wife,
sir--she an' the young un's might git--wal'--treated pretty shabby.

WASHINGTON

I understand. I'll give you an order for them to use in case of
necessity.

HONEYMAN

Would ye--er--sign it yerself, General?

WASHINGTON

Certainly! Here--I'll write it now. (_rattle of paper_) Let's
see--(_slowly_) "To the Good People of New Jersey and all others it may
concern: It is ordered that the wife and children of John Honeyman of--"
Where's your home?

HONEYMAN

Grigstown, sir.

WASHINGTON

"--of Grigstown, the notorious Tory now within the British lines and
probably acting the part of a British