Jim stumbled into his people's camp before any of them knew he was around. They decided afterwards the reason he came in on them like he did was because his creeping around hiding from the enemy made him so quiet and all no one could hear him coming.

He did not bother to tell the sentry he avoided it was because he and Charles Ray played Indians since before they were good weaned. Sneaking around fooling people was one of their greatest accomplishments.

Only thing if Jim had given it a good thought, he would not sneaked upon his own people that way. It tore down something in a group of men who thought they were doing the best they could and then find out they were as impregnable as a group of college girls out for a picnic.

After they shipped him on farther south to decide what to do with him, the soldiers he showed up still talked about having a man in cotton pajamas walk right upon them and them not know it at all. It just was not proper and him barefooted and all.

They sent Jim to a headquarters far down south on the coast where the first thing that happened to him was to be questioned like a common criminal. Only thing about it, he hadn't minded at all telling his own people about where the enemy took him. He proudly told them how many of the enemy he'd seen. Most of all he enjoyed telling about the well‑fed, New York Marine he knew was a deserter ‑ a turn-coat, they called it.