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In a long tongue of bushes that ran down to the Marsh they had found a mud-stained uniform, complete even to the cap, bearing the initial of the deserter's company. "Is there any hut or cabin hereabouts, Schmidt?" asked Calvert. "Dot vos schoost it, Lefdennun," replied his corporal. "Dot vos de shanty from der Kingvisher old Gulbebber. I pet a dollar, py shimminy, dot der men haf der gekommt."
Five minutes passed the number of passengers did not increase; ten minutes; a distant shriek the hoarse inquiry of the inspector had the Herr's companions yet gekommt? the sudden glare of a Cyclopean eye in the darkness, the ongliding of the long-jointed and gleaming spotted serpent, the train a hurried glance around the platform, one or two guttural orders, the slamming of doors, the remounting of black uniformed figures like caryatides along the marchepieds, a puff of vapor, and the train had come and gone without them.
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