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"Now is our chance," whispered the engineer; "keep the beggars lying low while I start the fireworks." "I'll attend to that," replied Jim briefly and with emphasis. Then two crouching figures slipped out from the culvert, and Jim kept on the move with the quick dodging motions of a boxer so that the enemy in ambush could not get a bead on him.
Over a culvert and down a wooded road troops of all arms were riotously retreating, cavalry, baggage-waggons, battered fragments of infantry regiments, ambulances, all mixed and huddled pell-mell into a headlong retreat that stretched to the rear as far as the eye could see. Astonished, the Lancers looked on, not understanding, fearful of some tremendous disaster.
And just look at that river noblest stream that meanders over the thirsty earth! calmest, gentlest artery that refreshes her weary bosom! Railroad goes all over it and all through it wades right along on stilts. Seventeen bridges in three miles and a half forty-nine bridges from Hark-from-the-Tomb to Stone's Landing altogether forty nine bridges, and culverts enough to culvert creation itself!
But I am not satisfied about the way the down-stream end of the culvert acts" this also was addressed to Jack "I am afraid some part of the arch has caved in. It will be bad if it has we shall know in the morning. You weren't frightened, Puss, were you?" She did not answer. She had heard that cheery, optimistic note in her father's voice before; she knew how much of it was meant for her ears.
Jack wheeled suddenly, shouted to a man behind him to run for his life, and raced on down stream toward the "fill" a mile below where MacFarlane and his men, unconscious of their danger, were strengthening the culvert and its approaches.
When we had gained possession of the station, Colonel Elliott directed me to take the left wing of my regiment, pass to the south, and destroy a bridge or culvert supposed to be at a little distance below the town on the Mobile and Ohio Railroad. The right wing, or other half of the regiment, was to be held in reserve for my support if necessary.
One might even, in that prison, precisely at the spot where the sewer which served the unprecedented escape, in broad daylight, of thirty prisoners, in 1843, passes under the culvert, read his name, PANCHAUD, audaciously carved by his own hand on the wall of the sewer, during one of his attempts at flight.
The sun had nearly set, but she realized her hope. Far down on the gray turnpike she saw the diminished figure of John March speeding townward across the battle-field. At the culvert he drew rein, faced about, and stood gazing upon Widewood's hills.
When he said that he had left Boris Suvaroff a prisoner at the culvert, with a broken leg, the officer started. "Can't you go after him?" Fred pleaded. "They have very few men there. You could sweep them away." "Not with this force. And I should not dare to go so far without special orders," said the officer.
Beyond Chieveley it was necessary to observe more caution. The speed was reduced the engine walked warily. The railway officials scanned the track, and often before a culvert or bridge was traversed we disembarked and examined it from the ground. At other times long halts were made while the officers swept the horizon and the distant hills with field glasses and telescopes.
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