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Vicente Tomba hesitated, muttering. "Now, don't you try my old trick of trying to gain time," warned the boyish sergeant crisply. "I know all about that little trick and I don't intend to put up with it in the enemy. Tomba, tell your fellows to open the way out of here, and to get out as quickly as they know how.
"It was a sad day for Mindanao when Tomba escaped from our guard house." Then, after a pause, Prescott continued: "By the way, Mr. Seaforth, how long has Draney been on his present plantation?" "I don't know, Lieutenant. He's been there longer than I have resided here." "Has he ever been troubled by the Moros?" "They have never attacked him, Lieutenant.
"But I want cigarettes, now," retorted Tomba almost fiercely. "It is ungenerous to deprive me of them." "Shall I let a man get them for him?" asked Hyman. "Yes; if he insists," nodded Hal. "What an idiot a man is to allow cigarettes to make such a slave of him that he can't pass an hour without one." A soldier was accordingly dispatched to the nearest tobacconist on Tomba's errand.
In the churches on Good Friday a crucifix was laid on the chancel steps. Women and children knelt round and kissed it. In one or two of them a dead Christ, life-size and painted, was exhibited behind glass. There was also the "tomba," a custom to which one is used in Italy. A few men joined in the devotion.
In truth, Italians, and especially Neapolitans, are by no means enthusiastic concerning the supposititious joys of marriage. They are apt to shake their heads, and to look upon it as a misfortune rather than a blessing. "L'altare e la tomba dell' amore," is a very common saying with us, and very commonly believed.
"What did you want of me, when you sought my acquaintance?" demanded Hal. He had suddenly become seized with a desire to prolong the talk with this little brown monster to gain time! "There was something that you could have done for me," replied Vicente Tomba. The Tagalo, like others of his race, was not averse to talking, either.
I was about to notify the sergeant of the guard, sir." "Don't let them get away," spoke Hal quickly to the men, "and remember that they're armed with steel! This fellow, who calls himself Davo is Vicente Tomba, a Tagalo who is right-hand man to the datto," added the sergeant, bending and snatching the hat from the Tagalo's face.
At the top of this interior slope the pair passed out through a doorway ordinarily closed by means of a stout wooden door. The pair found themselves in the yard back of Cerverra's house. At one side was an alley way leading to the street. "I will leave you here, señor, with your gracious permission." "Oh, no, no, Tomba!
After a four days' battle on 11-15 December the Austrians reached the limits of their invasion at M. Asolone and M. Tomba on the east, and M. Melago on the west, of the Brenta valley; and before the end of the year the Italians were recovering slopes on M. Asolone and the French those of M. Tomba, while the bridgehead at Zenson was destroyed.
"You speak as though you had some forebodings regarding Tomba, or Tomba and his friend," smiled Hal quizzically. "Well, then, I have," returned Noll Terry. "Not scared, are you?" "That's a fine question to ask a soldier," sniffed Noll. "Well, I'm not going to waste any more thoughts on Tomba, or on his white-man companion, either. Whee! Look at that rain. It "
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