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Among the non-commissioned officers who had attempted to desert was one of the corporals belonging to Bob's troop, and the next morning Bob was ordered to take his place and do duty as corporal of the guard. He saw the prisoners served with breakfast, and the numerous orders he had to give opened the eyes of one of them, who began to think he had made a discovery.
As he gazed at the spruce-clad hills that hid the great, wild north from which he had so lately come, the afterglow blazed up with all its wondrous colour, glorifying the world and lighting the heavens and the water and the hills beyond with the radiance and beauty of a northern sunset. The spirit of it was in Bob's soul, and he said to himself,
"I suppose," I said, "that it's rather unusual in battles to do that sort of thing march off, I mean without giving some sort of notice to the other side. It strikes me as rather bad form. There ought to be a rule against it." Bob's men returned, sheepishly and dejectedly, to their original posts. Crossan was arguing with McConkey about the condition of the machine gun.
"How?" I said, laughing, as I thought of Bob's low estimate of his fighting powers. "Lot of ways, my lad. Cook's got a good many advantages, you see. Red-hot pokers is one; pots and kettles o' boiling water's another, without counting the long sharp knives; but he won't do nothing, and I must. Don't walk too near the wild beasts' cage, my lad, I'm going aft."
This speech of Bob's seemed to offer a new line of thought to Heinrich who merely stared at Bob and said nothing. "Heinrich is so loyal himself that it never occurred to him that any one would be suspicious," thought Bob as he hurried off toward the house, the strange paper clutched tightly in one hand.
But an officer in a certain ship whose wire-haired terrier Cuthbert had been badly beaten by Bob some days before, conceived a brilliant idea for having his revenge. Early one morning, at Bob's usual time for passing by the ship on his way to North Corner, Cuthbert, wearing a brand new muzzle, was taking his morning constitutional on deck.
"If you don't, he'll think I've broken my promise." "I will. He shall know that you told me. Good-by, Bob, good-by." But Bob was asleep and did not answer. It was with the ebbing of the night and the coming of the dawn that Bob's soul went out, went out in stress and travail.
He concluded with much passion and clasped hands. In the rustle ensuing after this effort, Baker led his friend down the room to a very fat woman upholstered in pink satin, to whom he introduced Bob. Mrs. Annis, for such proved to be her name, welcomed him effusively. "I've heard so much about you!" she cried vivaciously, to Bob's vast astonishment. She tapped him on the arm with her fan.
The next morning was a very busy one for Aunt Patsy's son Tom's yellow boy Bob's child; and by afternoon it was necessary to send for two colored women from a neighboring cabin to assist in the preparations which Aunt Patsy was making for her projected visit.
There were other things in her mind, things of far greater import. She returned to the rocker chair, which was the luxury of their home, and sat down. There was one thing only in Bob's story which mattered to her just now. "Ten thousand dollars," she murmured. "Ten thousand! It's a fortune." Bob moved across to a rough shelf nailed upon the wall and picked up a pipe.
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