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From aloft came the momentary stutter of two machine guns. Ah! McGee testing and warming his guns as he climbed. Oh, the fool! The precious, daring fool! Larkin sat down on the tarmac, ker plunk! Let 'em raid. What mattered it? He rather hoped one of them would be accurate enough to plant a bomb on the top of Cowan's head.
Tom was diverted from this duty by a loud quarrel between Captain Harrod and five men of the company who wanted scout duty, and on the heels of that came another turmoil occasioned by Cowan's dropping my drum into the water. While he and McCann and Tom were fishing it out, Colonel Clark himself appeared, quelled the mutiny that Harrod had on his hands, and bade the men sternly to get into ranks.
That miserable Dave Cowan's taught it some new rigmarole no meaning to it, but bothersome when you want to be quiet." Even in the days of her white innocence Winona Penniman had not been above doing a thing for one reason while advancing another less personal. She had always been a strange girl. Juliana took leave of Spike. "You have a lovely wife," she told him.
"Well, I guess he was in better trim then," answered Cowan. "Besides, he's built well, you see most of his weight below his waist; when a chap's that way it's hard to pull him over. I remember last year in the game with Erstham I got through their tackle on a guard-back play, and " But Neil had already heard that story of heroic deeds, and so lent a deaf ear to Cowan's boasting.
In the winter of 1781, when Lord Cornwallis was approaching the Catawba river with his army, General Davidson, who was in command of the Whigs on the opposite or Mecklenburg side of that stream, concentrated his forces, stationed at different points on the river, to resist him at Cowan's Ford.
You say the French questioned him?" "French Intelligence did. Pretty game fellow, they said." "But he talked?" "Had to. That was von Herzmann's Circus." "We know that. Anything else?" "Yes. He said they knew all about our plans, and were out gunning for us." Cowan's face colored, but with confusion more than anger. "Anything else?" he asked crisply.
When it was ascertained that Cornwallis had crossed the Catawba river at Cowan's Ford, and was approaching with his army, the family of Captain Houston conveyed him to the "big swamp" in the immediate vicinity, known as "Purgatory," and there concealed him until the British had marched quite through the country.
It was a moonlight night late in the fall, after the last beef round-up was over and the last drive outfit home again, that two cow-ponies stood in front of Cowan's while their owners lolled against the bar and talked over the latest sensation the fencing in of the West Valley range, and the way Hopalong Cassidy and his trail outfit had opened up the old drive trail across it.
That is all, Lieutenant." "Yes, sir. And there are no orders for " "Orders will be a little more secret in the future." Cowan's voice was crisp, and carried a note of dismissal. "Yes, sir." McGee saluted stiffly, turned on his heel and walked from the room, steaming with anger.
At half past two o'clock on the morning of the 1st of February, 1781, Cornwallis broke up his encampment at Forney's and reached Cowan's Ford at daybreak. It was a dark morning, accompanied with slight drizzling rain. The light infantry, under Colonel Hall, entered first, followed by the grenadiers and the battalions.
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