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Brinsmade was talking about?" Stephen opened the box with alacrity. The General chose one and lighted it. "Don't smoke, eh?" he inquired. "Why, yes, sir, when I can." "Then light up, sir," said the General, "and sit down, I've been thinking lately of court-martialing you, but I decided to come 'round and talk it over with you first. That isn't strictly according to the rules of the service.
Superadded to all this, was the labor resulting from the mania for Court-Martialing that raged at Division Head-quarters.
"My way is to knock a man down, when he gives me any back talk," remarked the Major, sotto voce, taking a fresh chew of tobacco. "That's better than court-martialing to promote discipline."
The court-martialing and shooting of a private had a beneficial effect. With this disgruntled, unreliable, weary force, Jackson came, at length, to a great war camp of the Creek Indians at a loop of the Tallapoosa River called Horseshoe Bend. Here some ten hundred picked warriors had built defensive works which were worthy of the talent of a trained engineer.
Lieutenant Albert Werper had only the prestige of the name he had dishonored to thank for his narrow escape from being cashiered. At first he had been humbly thankful, too, that they had sent him to this Godforsaken Congo post instead of court-martialing him, as he had so justly deserved; but now six months of the monotony, the frightful isolation and the loneliness had wrought a change.
Brinsmade was talking about?" Stephen opened the box with alacrity. The General chose one and lighted it. "Don't smoke, eh?" he inquired. "Why, yes, sir, when I can." "Then light up, sir," said the General, "and sit down, I've been thinking lately of court-martialing you, but I decided to come 'round and talk it over with you first. That isn't strictly according to the rules of the service.
Brinsmade was talking about?" Stephen opened the box with alacrity. The General chose one and lighted it. "Don't smoke, eh?" he inquired. "Why, yes, sir, when I can." "Then light up, sir," said the General, "and sit down, I've been thinking lately of court-martialing you, but I decided to come 'round and talk it over with you first. That isn't strictly according to the rules of the service.
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