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The liquid in the two vials was found to be swarming with measles germs that would have started a veritable epidemic at Camp Berry. Captain Dick Prescott's quick thinking and steady action had resulted in the capture of the German spies who were seeking to destroy the Ninety-ninth. No quiet days, however, were in store for the regiment.
Captain Prescott asked, as he and his top stood at the head of A company awaiting the final order that was to set the nearly four thousand officers and men of the Ninety-ninth in motion on the road. "Like a burglar, sneaking out of a house he didn't realize he was in, sir," Kelly answered. First Lieutenant Noll Terry shivered; it was impatient uncertainty -nothing else. Then the order came.
"The padre par exemple! Well, I always had a great respect for the church. Pray, sir," said he, turning to Easy, "do your padres always head your boarders?" "Always, sir," replied Jack; "it's a rule of the service and the duty of a padre to show the men the way to heaven. It's our ninety-ninth article of war."
A new draft, coining in on the 4.10 train this afternoon is expected to fill all companies to strength, sir." Dick Prescott felt a sudden thrill. Filling up the companies of the Ninety-ninth appeared to promise that the regiment would soon be on its way overseas! "If we get our full strength this afternoon, Sergeant, be sure to have the clothing requisitions for them all in shape by this evening.
Our own personal task is to make this, the Ninety-ninth, the finest regiment of infantry in that army. "You have heard, at some length, what is expected of you. Any officer present, of any grade, who does not feel equal to the requirements I have laid down will do well to seek a transfer to some other regiment or branch of the service, or to send in his resignation as a military officer."
In spite of the concession that had been made to them, a spirit of dissatisfaction prevailed throughout all the goldfields; mutterings were heard as of a coming storm, and Latrobe, in alarm, sent to all the neighbouring colonies to ask for troops. As the Ninety-ninth Regiment was lying idle in Hobart Town, it was at once despatched to Melbourne.
The Eureka Stockade.# Sir Charles Hotham now sent up the remaining eight hundred soldiers of the Ninety-ninth Regiment, under Sir Robert Nickle, and to these he added all the marines from the men-of-war and nearly all the police of the colony. They were several days on the march, and only arrived when the disturbance was over.
It was one of the sudden, vivid, unforgettable delights which makes youth a fever and a desire. For Billy it was the wildest stab the sex had ever dealt him. For though this was perhaps the nine thousand nine hundred and ninety-ninth girl with whom he had danced, it was as if he had discovered music and motion and girls for the first time. The music left them by the windows.
It was still dark, however, when a stop was made and the order ran monotonously along: "All out!" Again dim lights were turned on, that men might find all their belongings. Adjusting their packs the platoons of the Ninety-ninth found their way to the ground below. For once there was no attempt at good military formation.
So Khalid praised Allah and thanked Him and improved the occasion by preaching a goodly sermon and a prayerful; And Shahrazad perceived the dawn of day and ceased saying her permitted say. When it was the Two Hundred and Ninety-ninth Night,
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