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"'Who has dreated you, may I ask, Meester Boblin? "'Doctor Stuffen, at Fizzenbad. "'Ah, yes, a fery goot man, but a leedle de times behindt. Vat did you eat? "I handed him the list. "'No vonder dot you are thin, my frent yoost as I oxpected dis ees de olt deory of broteids. Dot is all oxbloded now. Eef you haf stay anuder mont you vould be dead.
"What then?" "Dot room behindt us contains, besides der specie, almost a ton of dynamite!" "Great jumping wildcats!" The exclamation dropped from Buck's lips. The others were too thunderstruck to utter a word. "There's only one thing to do," spoke up Pete, his words fairly tumbling out of his mouth in his haste. "We must open the door and, at a signal, make a rush for it.
So I went round, but I found the thieves of the world waiting for ye there. But I was sure ye weren't the one to let them take ye widout a struggle for it. So I moved a bit away, and jist waited. "The time seemed long, when on a suddint I heard the sodgers sing out, and then fire, and set out to run. I never doubted it was you, and so off I went behindt them, as hard as I could tare.
I got 'em at Gravelotte der day we licked der stuffun oudt der Frainch, ach, you bedt. Me, I pelong to der Wurtemberg redgimend, dot dey use to suppord der batterie von der Brince von Hohenlohe. Alle der day we lay down bei der stomach in der feildt behindt der batterie, und der schells von der Frainch cennon hef eggsblode ach, donnerwetter! I tink efery schell eggsblode bei der beckside my neck.
"Veil," said the German, "der office uv der mine is made strong oh very strong, for behindt idt is der specie room. Ve can gedt by der inside in dere and fire through der vindows. And as a last resort vee can " He paused. "We can what?" demanded Jack. "Nefer mindt. I dell you later. Now is dot agreed upon?" "It's about all we can do, I guess," grunted Pete, "unless we stay here to be shot down."
Noodles would call out every little while, when he fell behind, for he seemed to have a horror lest he might slip into that horrible bed of mud, and be sucked down before his chums could reach him. "It iss nodt fair to leave me so far behindt der rest. How wouldt you feel if you rescued der argonaut, and lose your chump; dell me dot?
Now, sur, in case ye wur on guarrud at noight, an' should foind yure post invaded by the simultaneous appearance av the commandant an' corporal av th' guarrud on th' roight, the gineral-in-chafe an' staff on th' left, an' a rigimint av red-headed girrulls behindt yez, all wearin' bloomers an' arrumed to th' tathe wid corrun-brooms an' feather-dusthers, which would yez advance firrust wid th' countysoign?"
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