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Observance of the major's orders would have carried him along the trail of Davies's party until well across that ridge or spur, then having gone the designated mile he should now be marching southward along the ridge where he could, frequently at least, see both Davies's squad and their distant objective-point, that smouldering fire in the valley. Marching as he was he could see neither.

The crowd surged closer. It looked as if the fight might change from bantam-heavy to heavy-heavy. And the odds were on Drake. "If yeh want to fight kids," said the book-maker, in his slow, drawling voice, "wait till they're grown up. Mebbe then yeh'll change your mind." Waterbury was on his feet now. He let loose some vitriolic verbiage, using Drake as the objective-point.

As we cannot follow all these groups, we will join ourselves to one and see them home. "Two 'brothers-in-arms, whose objective-point is Richmond, take the road on foot. They have nothing to eat and no money. They are bound for their home in a city which, when they last heard from it, was in flames.

That was for the attack we made on 'em from its safe elevation at the bungalow. Well " "What then?" "I can hardly remember. We trekked south, as near as I could reckon it, or south by east, with New Hope River as our objective-point. Oh, what's the use trying to tell it all? You know the jungle at night?" "Wild beasts, you mean?" "And snakes, Beta!