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"See that you understand that machine, Lamoine," said Picard. "Set it at half an hour." Lamoine, turning the hand to the figure VI on the dial, set the works in motion, and to the accompaniment of its quiet tick-tick they drank their beer. "He seems to understand his business," said Lamoine. "Yes," answered Picard. "What heady stuff this English beer is.
When we have said that we have said a good deal, for if there is any mischief that a lot of veterans will not think of when they have a leisure hour on their hands, we don't know what it is. When the horses were "colored" at Fort Lamoine the brindles fell to the lot of Lieutenant Earle, as he was the lowest company commander, all the others being captains.
The long, toilsome journey was completed at last, and late one afternoon the weary and footsore recruits found themselves drawn up in line on the parade-ground at Fort Lamoine. After the roll had been called and the colonel commanding the post had hurriedly inspected them, they were turned over to a sergeant, who marched them into the barracks.
I wish we had some good French bock; this makes me drowsy." Lamoine did not answer; he was nodding in his chair. Picard threw himself down on his mattress in one corner of the room; Lamoine, when he slipped from his chair, muttered an oath, and lay where he fell.
Well, they belong to our gang, an' Fletcher an' the rest are getting ready to go down there an' take 'em out." "Very well. Go right down to the commanding officer at Eagle Pass and tell him of it," said George promptly. "Then come up to Fort Lamoine, and we'll see if the colonel won't do something for Fletcher when he comes over here to capture me."
I sometimes get scraps from the French restaurants, and I sleep where I can." "Well, I think I can do better than that for you. Come with me." Picard took Delore to his house, letting himself in with a latchkey. Nobody seemed to occupy the place but himself and Lamoine. He led the way to the top story, and opened a door that communicated with a room entirely bare of furniture.
He saw Picard come out alone on several occasions, and once with another of his own stripe, whom he took to be Lamoine. One evening, when crossing Leicester Square, Picard was accosted by a stranger in his own language. Looking round with a start, he saw at his side a cringing tramp, worse than shabbily dressed. "What did you say?" asked Picard, with a tremor in his voice.
"Captain, this thing must be stopped. I say it must be stopped, even if we have to resort to summary measures. We must find out who the ringleaders are, and make an example of them." The speaker was Colonel Brown, the commanding officer of Fort Lamoine.
In the first place, George was not a regular scout; he might, with more propriety, have been called a volunteer aide. It is true that he was sworn into the service, and that he was bound to do his duty faithfully "during the pleasure of the commanding officer" of Fort Lamoine, but he drew no pay from the government.
"Well, it seems to me that you are throwing on a good many frills for a private. Where do you belong?" "At Fort Lamoine," said the stranger; and the answer was given in a tone quite as curt as was that in which the question was asked. "So do I, but I don't remember to have seen you there, and so I shall have to ask you to give an account of yourself. Dismount."
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