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The guards were busy filling canteens and watering pack mules, when the single sentry threw his rifle to the position of "ready" and the gun lock clicked loud. Over the stony ridge to the west, full a thousand yards away, came a little band of riders in single file, four men in all. Wren was sleeping the sleep of exhaustion. Blakely, feverish and excited, was wide awake.
As Forster had predicted, he was severely reprimanded for not having placed a sentry over the prisoners, but in consideration of the fact that he had already been spoken to by the admiral himself the captain was less severe on him than he would otherwise have been. Gilmore, on the other hand, was warmly commended.
Some watchful friend had got ahead of the column and warned the thieves, and they were gathering up their plunder preparatory to beating a hasty retreat. They were on the watch too, for the column had scarcely made its appearance when a sentry called out, "Who is it?" George afterward said that he never had a very clear idea of what happened during the next few minutes.
I thought so indeed. We followed the sentry through the town in a waking dream, content to let him do with us as he would. He did the talking, explained to the grandees in the king's hall our names and errand. One of them led us up the stairs and knocked at a closed door. "Enter!" It was Henry's own voice. I pinched monsieur's hand to tell him. Our guide opened the door a crack.
The Germans knew that Grand Island was guarded by United States troops and that the river surrounding it was patrolled by sentry launches; but the island was large, sixteen miles long and seven miles wide, and under cover of darkness it was a simple matter for swimmers to pass unobserved from shore to shore.
Swinging to the saddle, he cantered down the road to the outskirts of the village. A sentinel stopped him, and a second time he gave the countersign. He was just moving forward again when some one emerged from the darkness back of the sentry and sharply called to him to stop. Steve knew that voice, would have known it among a thousand.
It was long after midnight when, cold, wet and famished, we called the password to the sentry at the gateway through the barbed-wire entanglements which encircled Antwerp and he let us in. It was a very lively day for every one concerned and there were a few minutes when I thought that I would never see the Statue of Liberty again. VII. The Coming Of The British
He was not, ordinarily, an imaginative youth, but just now the gruesome thought that had entered his mind persisted there. He began to pace the platform deck in deep agitation. "Anything wrong, sir?" questioned the marine sentry, halting and throwing his rifle over to port arms. "That's just what I'd give a million dollars and ten cents to know!" exploded Eph.
Then when Peter came back she could slip away and he would never find her. At noon came the Portier and the sentry, now no longer friends, and rang the doorbell. Harmony was rather startled. McLean and Mrs. Boyer had been her only callers, and she did not wish to see either of them. But after a second ring she gathered her courage in her hands and opened the door.
"A friend," was the Corporal's reply. "Advance, friend, and give the countersign," was brusquely returned. A moment afterwards Jasmine was in the sweet-smelling garden, and the lights of the house were flaring out upon her. She heard at the same time the voices of the sentry and of Corporal Shorter in low tones of badinage, and she frowned.
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