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Updated: June 16, 2025
You're second in command here, and there's no knowing at what moment I may be hit. Who's a good man, outside of yourself?" "Private Kelly." "Send for him." Kelly lost no time in reporting. "Private Kelly, do you think you can slip through the enemy's lines and carry a message from me to Captain Cortland?"
Once inside the house Hal's first care was to visit the wounded men. "Bender's gone, sir?" asked Hal. "Yes," nodded Lieutenant Prescott gravely. Then they went to breakfast, for the soldier must eat or presently stop fighting. "You'll want to know my orders from Captain Cortland," said Lieutenant Prescott, filling his cup with coffee. "Yes, sir; if you feel at liberty to tell me."
None of them, however, showed any wounds, or bore any other signs of having seen recent military service with the datto. "Mr. Seaforth," said the young officer, presently, "I am going to follow the course laid down by Captain Cortland, and return to Bantoc with the greater part of my command. I shall, however, leave Sergeant Dinsmore and a dozen men here.
Sergeant Overton and Sergeant Terry have recognized him as one whom they saw with you in Manila." "Bah! That amounts to little. Señor Draney can deny." "But they have recognized you also, my Tomba, and so has Corporal Hyman. More, they have told Captain Cortland all they know, and all they can guess." "The dogs!" growled Vicente Tomba, his snarl showing his fine, white teeth.
Then Dinsmore, if he sees no more of the Moros within three days, is to march his men back to Bantoc. With the limited number of men at his disposal Captain Cortland recognizes the impossibility of keeping a military guard regularly at each plantation."
It is the love scene in the garden. The hour was one of supreme and tender joy. When Kate scene that Cortland never " MISS LORE Excuse me; but wouldn't it be more grammatical to say "when Kate SAW," instead of "seen"? MR. PENNE The context will explain. Miss LORE Oh! Cortland, with his arm firmly entwined about her waist, knew nothing of her sighs " MISS LORE Goodness!
After thinking a few moments longer, Captain Cortland continued: "Freeman, you will take sixty men from B Company, and the same number from C Company. I can spare you but two officers, for I shall need the services of Bay and Hampton here. So Holmes will command the C Company detachment, and Prescott the B Company detachment, while you will command the expedition.
"Gentlemen," announced Captain Cortland at last, "we have the two prisoners in the guard house, and we have a guard over Cerverra's place. We'll take counsel of the night and of sleep. In the morning, at eight o'clock, we'll meet here to deliberate further on this puzzling matter. By the morning our whole duty may be extremely clear to us."
But, as you know, Cortland, some of the Moro dattos are given to heading sudden, unexpected and very desperate raids on white planters, and that fact has discouraged Americans, Englishmen and Germans from investing millions and millions of capital in the Moro country." "Yet the fellow Draney is a planter there, sir?" "Draney owns half a dozen very successful plantations."
As soon as it was certain that the bookkeeper had really ceased to breathe, Captain Cortland had the hospital steward summon men, who carried the remains away. From the portion of the barracks allotted to B Company there came hardly a sound of unusual activity. Yet men were preparing for the "hike," as the long, swift march is called, in record time.
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