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The corporal and the two members of the guard felt a similar nausea when they arrived on the scene, and it ended in sending for the officer of the day, Lieutenant Dick Prescott. Without venturing to order the removal of the find, Lieutenant Prescott sent a member of the guard to awaken Captain Cortland.
I'd like to hurry up their quitting by a charge, but it might cost us some men, and my orders go only as far as defending the plantation and the white people here. Sergeant, I have about decided to send a report to Captain Cortland. I believe it would be safer to send one or two soldiers, if they're the right kind of men, than to send a detachment.
After flashing an inquiring look at his company commander, and saluting that officer, Hal next raised his uniform cap to Draney, then turned and made his way down to the spar deck. "Your sergeant looks like a very upright young man, Captain," observed Mr. Draney. "Overton?" rejoined Captain Cortland. "I am certain that he is the soul of honor."
"Captain Cortland told me," Noll broke in at last, "that the former military commander here informed him that he had had about a dozen of his men disappear most unaccountably, and that not one of them had ever been heard from afterward. So, when you failed to return, Hal, the captain declared that he was going to sift this business to the bottom before he stopped."
Non-commissioned officers made a hasty inspection, while Captain Cortland and Lieutenant Prescott glanced up and down the line with keen eyes. "March your detachment, Lieutenant," directed Captain Cortland, a minute later. "Twos right, route step, quick time march!" called Lieutenant Prescott. As one man they swung, and their feet were in motion.
"Those men are marching to Bantoc to keep order in the town," replied Captain Cortland. "Tell me, as quickly as you can, what is wrong at Seaforth's." "We were attacked just before daylight this morning," Edwards replied weakly. "In force?" pressed the post commander. "Just at a guess there must have been two or three hundred of the Malay fiends." "Any of the defending party killed?"
As soon as the light came Captain Cortland despatched an armed guard party to bring over to the fort the German physician and three other white residents of Bantoc, to see whether they could identify the severed heads.
"That's my answer, too, sir," supplemented Lieutenant Greg Holmes. "Spoken like soldiers and officers," said Captain Cortland heartily. And, indeed, these two young officers were soldiers! Young as they were, they commanded the respect of the men in their companies. B and C Companies could be depended upon to follow Prescott and Holmes wherever these two young West Pointers cared to lead them.
You know, sir, it has been permitted that native prisoners be allowed to have their friends come and bring them their native food and coffee." "I know," nodded Captain Cortland. "But that rule, gentlemen, is revoked from this minute. Thanks to that rule Tomba has gotten away from us." "I hope you don't suspect Sergeant Jones, Cortland," interposed Captain Freeman.
This crab, as Captain Cortland already knew, was the sign manual of that arch scoundrel of brown skin, the Datto Hakkut. The crab was meant to signify that, while the datto could move forward, he could also crawl sideways or backward that he was strategist enough to crawl out of any trap that the soldiers might set for him.
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