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"Say," said Donovan, "is this a rehearsal for a cinema? and when do you reckon to have the camera operating?" "That man," said von Moll, pointing to Smith, "is a deserter from the service of the Emperor and a spy. He pays the penalty." Donovan deliberately cut the end off his cigar and struck a match. Then he looked up at von Moll.
Extradition means expense to the state; it is usually difficult, moreover, to get an active interest taken in extraditing a family deserter who, to the legal eye, has committed an offense neither against the person nor against property, and cannot therefore be a serious offender!
We had, of course, frequently seen a couple of soldiers trudging along with sloped muskets, and that cruel glitter of steel which no one of us could look upon quite unmoved; but in such cases, the deserter walking between them in his shirt-sleeves, his pinioned hands covered from public gaze by the loose folds of his great-coat, explained everything.
Upon the line of baseness, the deserter is placed next to the traitor. Dumonceau, another Batavian general of some publicity, is not by birth a citizen of the United States, but was born at Brussels in 1758, and was by profession a stonemason when, in 1789, he joined, as a volunteer, the Belgian insurgents.
They say to the Protestants, 'We know why you uphold Unionism' that is, as they believe, landlordism 'for the landlords are English and Protestant; your position is understandable. But to the Catholic they say, 'You are not only an enemy, but a renegade, a traitor, and a deserter. And whatever that man's position may be, the people can make things uncomfortable for him."
"Be careful to identify beyond doubt this alleged deserter. The Rear-Admiral has received this information at the instant of sailing, and he is by no means certain that the statements of his informant can be depended upon. A photograph of the reputed deserter is enclosed herewith. The Admiral thinks that Mr. Carteret may know the man, as he was serving in the Flycatcher five years ago."
In Persia, he represented himself as a deserter, and subsequently acquired influence with Artaxerxes, and devoted his talents to laying out schemes for the subjugation of Greece. He received the large sum of fifty talents yearly, and died at sixty-five years of age, with a blighted reputation, such as no previous services could redeem from infamy. Nor did any of his descendants ever become rich.
He astonished me by telling me he had been a deserter, long ago, when a lad, after two years in the Rifle Brigade, where he was sickened by tyranny of some sort. He confessed, after re-enlistment, and was pardoned. He had been fourteen years in his present corps, and had got on well. Opposite is a young scamp of Roberts's Horse. I asked him what he would do next.
He heard later on that the man had joined the Black Police, and a deserter from the Black Police is in nine cases out of ten an unmitigated villain. Then Sandy became communicative, and frankly told his involuntary host part but part only of his story, and wound up by saying "You must not sleep here to-night. There is a big mob of myalls camped in the river-bed three miles away from here.
Marianson felt her happiness jarred as the wonderful day came to such limits. The English had the island. It might be searched for that young deserter waiting for her help, and if she failed to get a boat, what must be his fate? She had entered the west door of the distillery. She found opportunity to slip out on the east side, for it was necessary to reach the dock and get a boat.
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