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Nearing them she recognized the leader as a sergeant of Captain Terry's troop, and knew well from the trim appearance of the men and their smooth-shaven cheeks and chins that they were just setting forth, not just returning from the field. The adjutant came hurrying down the steps of the major's quarters just as she reached the gate, and raised his forage-cap at sight of her.
Coarse woollen socks, and the cheap contract shoe completed the costume of Sure-shot for it was he. His contrasting comrade was equally in military garb even more so, by the additional article of a cloth forage-cap. His was also an undress uniform; but, though of very similar cut to the other, and resembling it in the quality of the material, the colour was different.
"That you shall have!" said the old gentleman, and, taking up his forage-cap as he spoke, he crammed it on his head. "Perhaps you are too insolent," he added, "to inform me of the time of the next London train?" "It leaves in three-quarters of an hour," returned the innkeeper with alacrity. "You can easily catch it." Joseph's position was one of considerable weakness.
"Stay where you are! Stay where you are!" he cried. "So all has gone well?" "Yes, sir," answered Reimers, still out of breath with his quick ride. The colonel heaved a sigh of relief. "I am glad; very, very glad!" he said. In the barrack-yard Gähler was waiting for his master. He handed him his helmet and bandolier and took the forage-cap in exchange. The battery was ready to move on.
And, throwing down his pipe, regardless of the scattering sparks and ashes, Captain Chester strode into the hall-way, picked up the first forage-cap he laid hands on, and banged himself out of the front door. Mr. Rollins remained for some moments in the same attitude, still gazing abstractedly at the rug, and listening to the nervous tramp of his senior officer on the piazza without.
Epaulettes of incredible size were bent backwards and upwards in the shape of a cupid's wings; his boots creaked; in his left hand he held cinnamon-coloured kid gloves and a forage-cap, and with his right he kept every moment twisting his frizzled tuft of hair up into tiny curls. Complacency and at the same time a certain diffidence were depicted upon his face.
Witnesses were called from the stable; my story was made good; and as I stood in the ante-room adjusting my forage-cap I heard the beginning of a tongue-walking which those non-commissioned officers were not likely to forget. 'If you dare to bully my recruits again, said the colonel, 'I'll break the pair of you. I won't have my recruits bullied.
Sheriff, I refuse to enter any complaint against Mr. Case. He is entirely blameless." "That seems to let you out, Case," said the sheriff sententiously, but the bookkeeper never raised his head. "Is there anything else I can say or do?" asked Willett, holding his natty forage-cap at the side of his head. "It should be done now, for I am to leave here to-night." It was then Case's turn.
On the marble table in front of him, beside a sandwich and a glass of beer, there lay a battered forage-cap. His hand fluttered abroad with oratorical gestures; his voice, naturally shrill, was plainly tuned to the pitch of the lecture-room; and by arts, comparable to those of the Ancient Mariner, he was now holding spell-bound the barmaid, the waterman, and four of the unemployed.
She could see the moonlight glinting on the polished insignia, the crossed sabres, on the front of his forage-cap, and though she could not see the face, she knew it was that of Sergeant Wolf. Captain and Mrs. Truscott were still below. She could hear them putting out the parlor lamps and locking the doors.
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