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What I'm down on is, they hain't got none of the eddication that comes nateral to a gentleman, even, ef he never seed the outside of a schoolhouse. Who ever heerd of one of 'em hevin' a difficulty with any gentleman, at the saloon or on the crick? They drar a good deal of blood, but it's allers from some of their own kind, an' up there by 'emselves.
Sapper Maggs stood by my side. "There be a feller a-watching for us up there?" he whispered. I nodded. "If us could drar his 'tention away, yew could slip by, next time the patrols is past, couldn't 'ee?" Again I nodded. "It'd be worse for yew than for me, supposin' yew'd be ca-art, that's what t'other officer said, warn't it?" And once more I nodded. The hot whisper came again.
"I'll drar 'un off for ee, zur, nex' time the patrols pass. When I holler, yew and the others, yew run. Thirty-one forty-three Sapper Maggs, R.E., from Chewton Mendip ... that's me... maybe yew'll let us have a bit o' writing to the camp." I stretched out my hand in the darkness to stop him. He had gone. I leant forward and whispered to Francis: "When you hear a shout, we make a dash for it!"
Then I became aware of the presence of Ike, who said with a grim smile: "Don't you heed them, my lad. I see one of 'em chuck it and then turn round. Wait a bit and I shall get a charnce, and I'll drar my whip round one of 'em in a way as'll be a startler."
"Unless we could drar the patrol's attention away!" said Sapper Maggs. But Francis ignored the interruption. "... We can at least try it. Come on, we must be starting! Thank God, there's no moon; it's as dark as the devil outside!" We roused up Monica and groped our way out of the cave into the black and dripping forest. Somewhere in the distance a faint glare reddened the sky.
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