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"It was very handsomely done," suggested Captain Gordon. "I think it was; but Captain Coonly will not be a great military commander," added the major. "But what has become of the prisoners captured in this affair?" "We marched them to Millersville, and turned them over to Colonel Halliburn," answered Deck.
"I find you engaged in plundering a citizen of the United States, threatening him, and ransacking his mansion. Soldiers do not engage in such work." "I am in the service of the Southern Confederacy," replied Captain Coonly, evidently somewhat crestfallen. "Have you a commission about you?" "Not yet; but I shall have one." "I look upon you and your gang as guerillas, and I shall treat you as such.
"No civil law about it!" exclaimed Captain Coonly, his wrath stirred up by the mention of a prison. "I am a soldier, and so are my men. I demand terms such as one military officer should give to another."
"How goes it, Sergeant Knox?" asked Captain Coonly when Life came within speaking distance of him. "All right," replied the big Kentuckian. "Haven't the regulars of the Confederate army licked you?" "Not much; but they have been licked out of their boots, with the third part of them killed or badly wounded. You have no show for gittin' out of this scrape yet."
But Deck had studied the needed subjects for his conduct as an officer while others slept, and he had improved every opportunity to converse with Captain Gordon upon the laws and customs of the service. "I thought you said we should have fair play?" growled Captain Coonly. "I did; and I explained what fair play was in a case like this.
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