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A moment later he joined me, silently as a great shadow, and I cordially extended my hand to him. "May the gracious blessing of the Lord rest upon you, Geoffrey Benteen," exclaimed the old Puritan fervently, as we faced each other in that gloomy passage, and it somehow heartened me to note tears in his gray eyes. There was heart, then, under all his crabbedness.
I exclaimed in new interest. "Have you been with your wife?" He stroked his moustache, gazing at me in apparent surprise. "Nay, friend Benteen; you must be the very soul of innocence to make such hasty guess. I rested beneath the same roof with her, so I was informed, yet she who spake thus regarding the plight of the Puritan chanced to be the fair Queen, Naladi." "Naladi?
By my soul, the ball is about to open, gentlemen; the enemy creeps forward as though uncertain of our whereabouts, yet hardly as if greatly fearing our numbers. What do you make of the fellows, Master Benteen?" "Beyond doubt savages, but not of any tribe within my knowledge." "Saint Denis! nor mine," he acknowledged gravely, staring at them.
"The Almighty may have guided me here, but 'tis a man in the flesh who speaks." The sectary made hard efforts to glance behind, but the cords held too firmly, so I merely gained a glimpse of the side of his face. "Merciful Jehovah! 'tis the voice of Master Benteen," he exclaimed joyfully. "I know not how you could come there unless you descended from the sky."
It was probably the intention to finish, as they marched back to the south, the devilish work begun on the Saline, but before they reached that valley on the return, the victims left there originally had fled to Fort Harker, as already explained, and Captain Benteen was now nearing the little settlement with a troop of cavalry, which he had hurriedly marched from Fort Zarah.
I exclaimed nervously, "but the den has an occupant already." "Ay, and of a kind common enough in these hills, but nothing fit to affright a servant of the true God," echoed Cairnes, striding past me. "I am not wont to fear heathen idols, Master Benteen, nor will I bear back now before those green eyes."
They further testify that after Reno made his attack with a portion of his men, thus depleting his effective fighting force by one half and in desperation made his bungling retreat, had he later come to the aid of Custer with the added reinforcements of Benteen, French, and Weir, who begged him to hear the appeal of Custer’s rapid volleys, Custer would have broken the Indian camp.
"Yes, dear friend, it is Eloise," she answered, gazing anxiously into my face, and clinging to my strong hands as though fearful lest I might tear them away when she spoke those hard words which must follow. "Yet surely you know, Geoffrey Benteen, that I am Mademoiselle Lafrénière no longer?" It seemed to me my very heart stopped beating, so intense was the pain which overswept it.
Benteen came up to the support of Reno, but he too took fright and got out of his position without striking the enemy. While Reno and Benteen were trying to keep open a way for their retreat, Custer charged on the village, first sending a courier, Trumpeter Martin, to Reno and Benteen with the following despatch: "Big village; be quick; send on the packs."
"Well," I interrupted impatiently, "keep your moralizing to yourself until we become better acquainted, and answer my question Is the woman young?" My tone was sufficiently stern to sober him, his black face straightening out as if it had been ironed. "Now, don't you go an' git cross, Massa Benteen, case a laugh don't nebber do nobody no hurt," he cried, shrinking back as if expecting a blow.
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