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Go to him, and tell him what I have spoken. I will await his return! 'His business is secret, sneered the Hun. 'He has departed, but without telling me whither. How should I, that am a barbarian, know the whereabouts of an illustrious Goth? It is not for me to know his actions, but to obey his words! 'Jeer not about your obedience, returned Goisvintha with breathless eagerness.
And then the Reverend Harry Lauder, M.P., Tour was ready to go back not to safety, at once, but to a region far less infested by the Hun than this one where we had been such warmly received visitors! I was sorry to be leaving the Highland laddies in that trench. Aye! But for the trench itself I had nae regrets nae, none whatever!
Tis but my weeds which ye see thus wet, said Dankwart carelessly. The blood is that of other men, so many in sooth that I could not give ye tale of the number. Guard the door, brother, said Hagen fiercely; guard it yet so that not a single Hun may escape. I will hold parley with these brave warriors who have so foully slain defenceless men.
Our front line is not more than a mile away, and the German line is about a mile and a quarter. Far off to my right I can just see a field with tanks in it. Ah there goes a shell on the Hun line another! Can't think why we're tuning up at this time of day. We shall be getting some of their heavy stuff over directly, if we don't look out. It's rot! 'And the sun is shining like blazes on it all.
Slavens gave him a list of articles needed in the patient's case, and the Governor rode away. The undertaker from Comanche arrived a little later, and took Hun Shanklin's body up from the ground. When his wagon, on its return to Comanche, had passed the tent where Agnes was trying to sleep, she got up and joined Dr. Slavens. "I couldn't sleep," she explained.
Temple, leaning forward and speaking impressively, "that he was pretty certain one man was a Greaser and the other a Hun. Those were his own words. Of course, he meant one was a Mexican and the other a German." "So when this chauffeur abandoned them they stole our airplane to get away," cried Frank excitedly. "Exactly."
They were prisoners before the abrupt alteration in the direction of the German movement had dawned on them. Above Rues Vertes the spiteful fire of the remaining scattered units of the Ten Hundred impressed upon the Hun mind a fear of those riflers that was pregnant enough to force him to rapidly verge away from the spot to a safer distance of a mile or so.
"Perhaps the Boches have spread reports of our capture by Swiss authorities," she said simply. "That might be. Yes, and the Hun newspapers might even have printed it. I can see their scare-heads: 'Gross Violation of Neutral Soil! "'Switzerland invaded by the Yankees! Their treacherous and impudent spies caught in the Alps! that sort of thing. Yes, it might be that... and yet "
For a moment neither horse nor rider stirred, then without warning the animal's forelegs collapsed, throwing the Hun headlong in the dust. The terrified orderly wheeled, and casting aside the white flag, rode at full gallop to the shelter of the bush, his hasty and undignified retreat being carried out without let or hindrance on the part of the defenders of the kraal.
Of course the two air service boys had no hope of inflicting much damage on batteries or works outside the prison. By the dropping of some bombs they carried they hoped to distract attention from themselves long enough to drop the packages to Leroy. The bombs were a sort of feint. And now they were on their way, winging a path over their own lines, and soon they would be above those of the Hun.
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