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Plainly Bain was holding one end of this, and some one in the trenches Captain Wagstaffe himself, as like as not was holding the other. If an enemy stumbled over the trip-cord, Bain would warn the defence by twitching the alarm-cord. Five minutes later M'Snape was back at the rendezvous, describing to Simson what he had seen.
Andrew maintained that the natural form of the trunk of a tree was the ideal and perfect form of a pillar. To this picturesque structure, half castle, half cabin, with hints of church and temple, came August Wehle on Saturday evening. He did not go round to the portico and knock at the front-door as a stranger would have done, but in behind the donjon chimney he pulled an alarm-cord.
Five minutes previously, Private Bain, lulled to a sense of false security by the stillness of the night, had opened his eyes, which had been closed for purposes of philosophic reflection, to find himself surrounded by four ghostly figures in greatcoats. With creditable presence of mind he jerked his alarm-cord. But, alas! the cord came with his hand.
A tall figure loomed against the starlit sky, and Captain Wagstaffe, who had been out in the trench, spoke quickly to Major Kemp: "I thing we had better get to our places, sir. Some criminal has cut my alarm-cord!"
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