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"Broady done it," replied Grump, in a hoarse whisper; "he pounded the boy, and I tackled him then he fired." The doubter went around and raised the dying man's head. Pet seemed collecting all his energies for some great effort; finally he asked: "What made you pour your dust into my pouch?"
There is some explanation wanted about that cheque." I had followed the two men from the manager's room, and now I saw that while one had laid his hand on the stranger's shoulder the other had taken him by the opposite arm. "Why," said the former, looking into his face, "it's Broady Sims!" "All right," the man growled resignedly. "It's a cop. I'll go quiet."
It was from Broady Sims that we learnt the exact use and meaning of this implement: though he would not say a word till he had seen with his own eyes Mayes lying dead in the mortuary. Then he gasped his relief and said, "That's the end of something worse than slavery for me! I'll turn straight after this." Sims's story was long, and it went over ground that concerns none of Hewitt's adventures.
After the President issued his call for 300,000 additional troops, I learned that Lieut. K. Oscar Broady, a recent graduate of Madison University, who had seen some military service in Sweden, his native country, was raising a Company for the War, in which many Hamilton and Sherburne men were enrolled.
The chief of the Jolly Grasshoppers was not in the habit of obeying orders, but Grump's hands imparted to his command considerable moral force. No sooner, however, had Broady extricated himself from Grump's grasp than he drew his revolver and fired. Grump fell, and the chief of the Jolly Grasshoppers, his injured dignity made whole, walked peacefully away.
Every now and then along the supporting line a man was knocked out. It was at this time that Ralph Haskell, a Hamilton boy, and another lying beside him had their brains knocked out by these shell fragments. They were but a few feet from me and I saw the whole bloody business. About this time a remarkable freak was perpetrated on the body of Capt. Broady.
Broady three cheers, he's a brave man." This we did with a will.
The general meaning of this seemed clear enough. The man whom the policeman had recognised as Broady Sims was to be at some spot a ruined building, it would seem in a place called Channel Marsh, at midnight, there to wait in the hall for instructions; no doubt for instructions where to take the hundred pounds he was to have got from the bank.
In the place we were marched to we lay down. Very soon the fifty men under Captains Broady and Mount, who had been detached, joined the forty or so of us making all told a fighting force of from ninety to one hundred men. Most, if not all the men, except those on guard, went to sleep. About two o'clock a. m. of July 1st, we were quietly awakened and cautioned to make no noise.
Broady called the officers around him and informed them in his Swedish brogue, that it was anticipated that the enemy would charge our position, which we were to hold as long as there was a man left of us, and that if we should give way and fall back we would be fired into by our men, who held a second and third line.
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