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Here, I know," he continued, as there was a series of hisses such as would be uttered by one who was trying to drive some obnoxious creature away. "Hississh!" cried the sentry again. "Blest if he don't think I'm a big monkey up here," thought Peter. "Monkeys throw sticks and stones. What a lark! Wish Mister Archie was here with me.
Then, when the sentry was tramping along the porch, the figure gave a quick writhe and lay still a step higher. Again, when the sentry was his farthest, there was another writhe, and the figure was on the top of the stairs, to roll by degrees gently over and over across the landing, and lie close to the panelled wall.
Still, in spite of these things, the Boer on commando has to submit to very rigid laws. The penalty for outrage, or attempted outrage, on a woman is instant death on conviction, no matter what the woman's nationality may be. For sleeping on sentry duty the punishment is unique; it is a punishment born of long dwelling in the wilderness.
From his position he looked across the courtyard toward the garden where stiff cypress-trees stood sentry among the mignonette and the roses, now in the full glory of their autumn bloom. Beyond the garden, the rough outline of the walls cut a straight line across the distant plains, which melted away into the haze of the marsh-lands by the banks of the Gironde far to the westward.
But I'm bound I'll have a show at that ol' spook even if it does skeer me out o' my growth. Only don't yer dare tell Ranch. "Nex' night, right after eleven o'clock rounds, me an' Buck slipped outer our blankets, sneaked out past the guard, an' met John, who was waitin' fer us in the road jus' beyond where the last sentry woulder seen him. It was cold as git out.
I waited under a tree eating somebody else's pears until I was told he had gone mad, and was wandering aimlessly about. It was a famous night for me. I was sent off to Dammartin, and knew something would go wrong. It did. A sentry all but shot me. I nearly rode into an unguarded trench across the road, and when I started back with my receipt my bicycle would not fire.
"The password," said the sentry; "none come in here without the word." "The word Ah! what did the Dom Xavier say it was in his letter? 'Fiend! No, I have it, 'Devil' is the word." "Where do you hail from?" "From Madagascar, where the goods you have to supply are in some demand just now. Come, let us in; we don't want to sit here all night and miss the fun."
My orders are that none pass out here without an order from the governor." "And such an order have I," Malcolm said, producing the document. "There's the governor's seal. I have been sent for to repair the clock in the Count of Mansfeld's apartment, and a rare job it has been." The sentry was unable to read, but he looked at the seal which he had been taught to recognize.
Is there no chance of anyone coming sooner?" "None that I can imagine. The only other occupants of the house are a party of half a dozen troopers in the guardroom below." "Where is the Lord General?" "Away I know not where. But he will be here at sunrise." "And the sentry that was at our door is he not to a changed 'twixt this and hanging-time?" "I cannot say for sure, but I think not.
In the year 1489, according to Anglo-Irish Annals, "six hand guns or musquets were sent to the Earl of Kildare out of Germany," which his guard bore while on sentry at Thomas Court his Dublin residence. But two years earlier we have positive mention of the employment of guns at the siege of Castlecar, in Leitrim, by Hugh Roe O'Donnell.
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