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"Ceph knows more than some men; but he became restive and uneasy after the captain and I had pegged away at each other for some time, and he stood up of his own accord. I had to hold on with all my might with my left hand; but my horse did not try to leap over the other animal, for he was even taller than Ceph.
When he came to his encounter with Captain Letcher, both of his auditors were intensely interested, though he told his story very modestly. "I suppose you caused Ceph to stand up on end when you found yourself in a tight place?" suggested Tom Belthorpe. "I did not," answered Deck very emphatically.
The moment Deck Lyon had given the signal for the first company to advance, he ran down the hill with all the speed he could command, to a tree where Life had hitched his horse in readiness for him. It was not the animal he had ridden from Colonel Hickman's mansion, but Ceph, the steed he had trained and used from the beginning of his career as a soldier.
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