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Accordingly the test was made. "Why, certainly, the fellow is Tomba," replied Hyman, "though he looks a lot different, sir, from the dandy who was talking to me last Tuesday night." Captain Cortland asked all three of the non-commissioned officers some further questions as they stood there.
"You do well to call them dogs," grinned Luis. "Señor Draney bids me to remind you what becomes of dogs that are troublesome. You have others here with you who can help. At the first chance, then, Overton, Terry and Hyman are to bite the bone that kills and Captain Cortland, too, if you can manage it!"
"Now, Sergeant Terry, inform me how you came to be here with this detachment?" "I was sent into town, Sergeant Overton, under orders from Captain Cortland. You were missed from parade, and the captain knew that could not happen with you, unless there was something decidedly wrong. So, at seven this evening, the captain directed me to take this detachment and scour the town for you.
They had estimated the datto's force at all the way from fifteen hundred to twenty-five hundred fighting men. Captains Cortland and Freeman, with their knowledge of the native tendency to exaggerate, had thus fixed the probable number at about eight hundred men. The second and the third days passed.
Now that he found himself at the end of his journey the stranger appeared to lose rapidly the strength of his voice. He lay back in the chair, his eyes half closed. "Where do you come from, friend?" asked Captain Cortland. "The Seaforth Plantation." "I know where the place is twelve miles from here, in the interior," answered the captain. "Right," murmured the wounded one. "Your name?" "Edwards.
The term closed with a banquet given by the grand jury of the district court to the justices and officers of both courts at Fraunce's Tavern in Cortland Street. So gradually did appellate and original cases find their way into the Supreme Court that three sessions were held before it had a case on its docket.
"I want the other officers to hear the whole of this villainous business." By the use of the telephone the other five commissioned officers on duty at Fort Franklin were soon summoned. "Now, begin again, Sergeant Overton," ordered Cortland, when all the officers had gathered in his parlor.
"Why couldn't that pair of enthusiastic boys take good advice and keep out of the mountains? Would their collections of stones and plants be worth as much to any college as the young men's lives would have been worth to themselves?" "The question is, Cortland, what are we going to do in answer to this defiance?" suggested Captain Freeman, of C Company.
Between them they lifted the wounded stranger to a seat on their arms. The man put his arms about their necks, and thus they conveyed him to a broad armchair on the porch. "My man, there, run for a hospital steward," shouted Captain Cortland. Then the post commander came to the wounded stranger.
"I certainly do not," Cortland confessed. "And I'm almost as certain that I don't, either," replied the regimental commander. "However, Cortland, we shall have to treat him with a fair amount of courtesy, for Draney is an influential man down in the part of the world for which we are headed. He is influential with the Moros, I mean.
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