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But they both kept silent, and when he had disappeared round the next traverse, Riley grinned and winked at his companion. "He's hooked, Brockie," he said exultantly. "Now you wait and " He stopped as a rifle-man moved round the corner and took up a position on the firing step near them. "I'll bet," said Riley delightedly, "Clancy has put him there to listen to anything he can catch us saying."
Jaffier, the old Dictator, had just stepped out of his dingy little capitol, when a rifle-ball tore through his sleeve, between his arm and ribs. His sentries clubbed the rifle-man to death in the street " "It's rather a peculiar situation as I understand it," Bedient said. "The death of either leader " "Would mean an end to his party. That's it exactly," said Captain Bloom.
Their sharpshooting and in one regiment 93 per cent of the men wear the medal of a marksman, a sharpshooter, or an expert rifle-man has amazed soldiers of European armies, accustomed merely to shooting in the general direction of the enemy.
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