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But what guarantee had he that this robbery was not planned to draw plunder from the outside public as well? The pledged word of Mr. White. And that was worth? He smiled disdainfully when he thought of the slenderness of its value. Tap taptap tap tap taptap, said the tantalizing instrument, going steadily on with its hidden speech. The stifling heat of the room seemed to get more oppressive.
He was elbowed and pushed, jostled and trod on, carried into the surges, relegated to the eddies; and always the metallic taptap of steel-shod boots on the asphalt, the bayonets throwing back the radiant sunshine in sharp, clear flashes. The keen, joyous faces of those boys. God, to be young like that! To have come through that hell on earth with the ability still to smile!
"If you don't keep your silly mouth shut, I'll have you throttled," he threatened, and after that the only noise that broke the silence was the tap taptap taptapping of the telegraph instrument. Only two men in that darkened room knew what message was being dispatched, and these were White and the dispossessed operator.
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