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Updated: May 6, 2025
"Ah ri'. 'S countersign. Pass. Fren'." It attempted a military gesture but succeeded merely in hitting its mouth with its hand. It then looked at the hand as if the latter had done it on purpose and became sunk in profound cogitation. "Not feeling very well today?" Oliver ventured. It looked at him. "Well?" it said briefly. Then, after a silence devoted to trying to find where its hands were.
They must needs obtain Pilate's countersign to their death sentence, and, indeed, consign their victim to him for execution. The Lord was to die, not the Jewish death by stoning, but the terrible Roman death of crucifixion. The day then breaking was that before the Passover.
Jest retire one by one firin' steady, see? Now I'm goin' back to the picket. Ow! an' don' fergit the reconnoitrin' patrol. Don' go an' shoot at 'em as they comes back. 'Alt 'em for the countersign as they comes out, and 'alt 'em fer it agin as they comes in, see? Right O. Now you keep yer eyes skinned, Greens and Grobbles."
"Quien-viva?" he hailed as the two horsemen rode up, the hoof-strokes startling him out of a half-drunken doze. "El Coronel-Commandante!" responded the tall man in a tone that told of authority. It proved to be countersign sufficient, the speaker's voice being instantly recognised.
Blanket rolls should generally be left behind, in order that the patrol may travel as light as possible. The leader then gives his patrol information and instructions. These embrace instructions from higher authority; his detailed plans; information of the country and enemy; the countersign, if any; the point where the patrol will assemble if scattered.
A rapid fire was heard, which died away in the snowy silence, and all the twelve fell to the ground, their horses with them. After a long rest the march was resumed. The old man whom they had captured acted as guide. Presently a voice far off in the distance cried out: "Who goes there?" Another voice nearer by gave the countersign. They made another halt; some conferences took place.
They walked up the gully some hundreds of yards until they finally came out upon a narrow plain at the top. On this mesa was a ruined dwelling of two stories and some shattered farm buildings. "Halt!" was the sudden command. A man in khaki appeared from a clump of trees near the house, advancing his rifle. "Friends," said the major quietly. "Advance one friend with the countersign."
'Except when they're sentries and hide, put in Hilary; 'they're always jumping up somewhere and wanting you to give the countersign. It isn't like home, these holidays! 'Perhaps, suggested Cecily, 'it makes things safer, you know.
"It's all right," he said, "of course I know what the countersign is. I was only trying you." "Hold on there," said Si, "don't come too close. If you've got the countersign, advance and give it. If ye ain't got it, I'll jest call the Officer of the Guard!" Leaning over the point of Si's bayonet the Colonel gently whispered "Bunker Hill".
He remained until Mrs. Cochraine sent him home, then walked up the hill toward Headquarters, keeping to the road by instinct, for he was deep in a reverie on the happiness of the past hours. His dreams were cruelly shattered by the pressure of a bayonet against his breast. "What?" he demanded. "Oh, the countersign." He racked his memory.
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