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We take the meaning, and let the letter hang! "Besides! The way it seems to me, if there's any more trouble cooking in this neighborhood, it's going to cook pretty fast, and it's going to boil around that guardroom; and if we're not in the guardroom, why, that's point number one for us! Leave the guardroom lantern lighted, and bring out nothing but your cartridge-pouches and the box of ammunition.
Lloyd from the difficulty about Bert's fondness for the guardroom and its hurtful influences, was from her father, and contained an invitation so pressing as to be little short of a demand, for her to pay him a long visit at the old homestead, bringing Bert with her. Mrs. Lloyd very readily and gladly accepted the invitation. Midsummer was near at hand.
Then aloud, "Where is the doctor?" "Here, of course," said that gentleman sharply from just behind them. "Always am where I'm wanted, eh? Look sharp, and take him to the guardroom." "No, no to my quarters," said Captain Murray quickly. "Tut tut tut! What were they about to let him go?"
Two men to guard prisoners, two on guard at the crossroads, two at the guardroom door six from twelve left six, and six were not enough to rape a countryside. "Guard!" he ordered. "Release that prisoner. Now, you Stanley, let this be a lesson to you, and remember that I only set you free because I'd have been short-handed otherwise. Number One! Stand guard between the clink and the guardroom door.
Stepping forward, therefore, with the air of quiet authority which he knew so well how to assume, he enforced silence by a gesture; and as the soldiers respectfully fell back before him, he walked through the groups of prisoners, speaking friendly words to them in their own tongue, and finally gave strict command to the captain of the guardroom to remove the fetters from those who were wounded, and see that they had all due tendance and care, whilst the rest were to be guarded with as little rigour as possible, and shut up together, where they would have at least the consolation of companionship in their misfortune.
He tore open the door, and rushed into the corridor, and his deadly pale and terrorstricken face imparted with greater rapidity than words to the two sentinels there the dreadful tidings. All three ran down the corridor together to the front door, down the steps, across the wide court, and into the guardroom. "The White Lady! the White Lady!" they gasped. "Where is she?
The commander, I have said, was gazing thoughtfully from the window of the guardroom. He may have been reviewing the events of the year now about to pass away. But, like the garrison at the Presidio, there was little to review. The year, like its predecessors, had been uneventful, the days had slipped by in a delicious monotony of simple duties, unbroken by incident or interruption.
'I think you'll find that it won't pay you to use such language in your present position, Private Jervase. He turned away and, with the whip he carried in his hand, struck a resounding blow upon the open door. 'Sergeant! he called, 'bring up a file of men, and take this man to the guardroom. 'On what authority, if you please? asked Polson.
Where is my mantilla? She put it over her head so that only one of her great eyes was to be seen, and followed my two men, as quiet as a lamb. When we got to the guardroom the sergeant said it was a serious job, and he must send her to prison. I was told off again to take her there. I put her between two dragoons, as a corporal does on such occasions. We started off for the town.
The lock on the cell-door was broken, so he only closed it, then started back toward the guardroom. "Three rifles, and three ammunition pouches gone!" he muttered. "That's three weapons they've got, in any case. A hornet's nest'd be better stopping in than this place." He overtook the men who were carrying in the nail-killed sentry, and he saw that their faces were drawn and white.
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