Near noon Robert Childs came to us in the woods. He approached us with extreme caution, and looked as if he would rather not see us. We talked with him an hour or more. During the whole conversation he upheld the Confederacy. He could not imagine how Paxton got the impression he was a Union man or a disloyal citizen. We asked Childs if he should take any steps to recapture us. He replied that he would do nothing either to help or hinder us. To this we replied, that we could ask no more from a "Secesh." He started home when we gave him the dish, and told him we were grateful to his wife and to him for what we had received from them. We urged Childs to call on us again before night. He said he would if he had time, and then went homeward. Near four o'clock, P. M., he came out again to see us, and remained with us until near sunset. The tenor of his conversation was the same as in the morning. He had no word of encouragement to give us, and, of course, offered us no assistance. It was growing late, and we began getting ready to travel. We continued talking with Childs, however, and Smith said to him, "I suppose you haven't reported us, have you?" "I've seen nobody to report to," he answered. "Hasn't any one been to mill?" inquired Smith. "O, one or two," answered Childs, "but they were in a hurry, and didn't stay long?" "You didn't say any thing about us, then?" asked Wood. "I didn't say a word about you to any body," said Childs. Sutherland then said, "I'll be switched if I don't believe he is a Union man after all." Childs manifesting some uneasiness, then said in an emphatic manner, "Don't fool yourselves about that, boys." Sutherland then asked, "Did you ever see or hear of any Yankee prisoners escaping through here before?" Childs said he had heard of a squad passing through about six weeks before. "How many were there in the squad?" Smith inquired. "Only two, I believe," was the reply. "I'll bet," said Smith, "they were Davis and Tige; they left the hospital about two months ago." Childs seemed to evince unusual interest in this remark of Smith's. Sutherland then said, "I wonder where Davis and Tige are by this time?" "O, they've got through before now," I replied. "Unless they've been caught and sent back," added Sutherland. Childs then inquired rather anxiously who Davis and Tige were. We told him who they were, where we had known them, and described them particularly. Davis had been steward at the hospital near Danville, and Tige had been a nurse. Childs then recanted his secession doctrines, and confessed he was a Union man, and had harbored Davis and Tige for three or four days. He also explained in full the reasons for his conduct toward us in pretending to be a Rebel.