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The young gunner alone was implacable. He was the first of the returning force to reach Fort Prince George, and he carried with him all the powder that had been sent under mistake to the Blue Lick Station, together with the tear-shotted cartridges, whose problematic interior damage he explained to the amazed, chagrined, and nonplussed commandant.
"But my God, man!" I said. "Couldn't you tell the difference between that and water?" "I thought it tasted funny, boss, but I wasn't used to claret." And then we had to laugh again, and I thought old Tom would die. "A nigger's stomach and his head," said the Commandant, "are about the same. I really don't know which is the stronger."
Ball, on the 15th of the month, for Norfolk Island, which the Governor had instructions from the ministry to take possession of. Lieut. King of the Sirius was sent as superintendent and commandant of this place, and carried with him a surgeon, a midshipman, a sawyer, a weaver, two marines, and sixteen convicts, of whom six were women.
La Corne directed military honors to be rendered to the remains of the brothers Noble; and in all points the Canadians, both officers and men, treated the English with kindness and courtesy. "The English commandant," again says Beaujeu, "invited us all to dine with him and his officers, so that we might have the pleasure of making acquaintance over a bowl of punch."
The poor Commandant had lived the better part of his life in exile, but by instinct of breeding he recognised this air at once. Vashti, however, seemed to mistake his astonishment, for she frowned. "Well?" she asked, a trifle impatiently. "Your sister never told us," he stammered. "At least that is to say " "Do you suppose she was ashamed of me?"
"But where are we?" demanded the Commandant; for close at hand sounded the boom of heavy waves. "In Piper's Hole." The Commandant stared aloft. Slowly the explanation dawned on him. The adit, piercing its way from the cliff top, broke through the wall of the cave, high up, close to the roof.
"His state of feeling does not help us much, unless expressed," I replied. "Meantime, what am I to say to the Général, the Commandant, and the Capitaine, if they ask to marry you?" The little thing plucked at the folds of her riding-skirt in the greatest perplexity.
He spoke kindly to Wilhelm and held out his hand, while the commandant contented himself with a nod, and a sign to be seated. "I suppose you know that you have been ordered to come here about the affair with Lieutenant von Pechlar?" he said. "Certainly, sir." "Will you relate what occurred?" Wilhelm answered as he was desired.
I replied that it was by order of the authorities. "Probably for conduct unbecoming an officer of the Guard?" rejoined my indefatigable questioner. "Will you be good enough to stop talking nonsense?" the wife of the Commandant now said to him. "You can see very well that this young man is tired with his journey. He has something else to do than to answer your questions. Hold your hands better.
Colonel Quarrier was a man who had grown grey in the service of the Crown. For over thirty years he had held a commission in the Nth West Africa Regiment, rising from a fresh young Second Lieutenant to the rank of Colonel Commandant and ruler of the destinies of nearly a thousand men.
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