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"Well, you a'n't a nigger, I reckon, but yer a strolling vagrant, and that's worse," he continued, after examining his face very minutely. So, dragging him to the guardhouse as he would a dog, and thrusting him into a sort of barrack-room, the captain of the guard and several officials soon gathered around him to inquire the difficulty.
Colonel Bissell declares that the man shall be made a corporal upon the first vacancy. The man Oliver was in the jail at Las Animas last summer for stealing horses. The old jail was very shaky, and while it was being made more secure, he and another man a wife murderer were brought to the guardhouse at this post.
For these reasons Billy argued that Cuivaca would be poorly guarded. On the night he had spent there he had seen sentries before the bank, the guardhouse, and the barracks in addition to one who paced to and fro in front of the house in which the commander of the garrison maintained his headquarters. Aside from these the town was unguarded. Nor were conditions different tonight.
Don't you know better than to draw your sword against a citizen in this way?" The lieutenant made no reply, but looked savagely at Robert, as if to say, "I'll have it out with you sometime," sheathed his sword and turned away, following the crestfallen soldiers to the guardhouse. Colonel Dalrymple bowed courteously, as if to apologize for the insult to the lady.
By the end of six months a city was established with a guardhouse, a tribunal, a prison, and a school, kept by an old blind scribe. The pilgrims were innumerable. Bishops and other Church dignitaries, came, full of admiration. The Patriarch of Antioch, who chanced to be in Egypt at that time, came with all his clergy.
The commander of the old transmits to the commander of the new guard all his orders, instructions, and information concerning the guard and its duties. The commander of the new guard then takes possession of the guardhouse and verifies the articles in charge of the guard.
Peering through the gloom I listened, but could not see or hear any movement. Straightening myself up I took half a dozen paces, when, in the stillness, I heard a sharp crackle that turned me to stone as the flame of a wax match revealed two soldiers sitting on a bench within the porch of the guardhouse not ten feet away. One had struck the match to light a cigarette.
And happily they had some justification for this, inasmuch as the soldiers had received orders from the Stadtholder in the Mark, when they relieved guard, to convey instant tidings to the guardhouse if anything remarkable should occur. In order to convey instant tidings, they must of course take to their heels and forsake their posts.
Billy came within a hundred yards of the guardhouse before he discovered a sentinel. The fellow lolled upon his gun in front of the building an adobe structure in the rear of the barracks. The other three sides of the guardhouse appeared to be unwatched. Billy threw himself upon his stomach and crawled slowly forward stopping often. The sentry seemed asleep. He did not move.
"Too bad!" he murmured. "Major Ruddy!" came in the harsh voice of Josiah Crabtree behind him. "What are you doing here?" "I came to talk to Ditmore," answered Jack, boldly. "Who gave you permission?" "Nobody, I came as major of the battalion. When a cadet is placed in the guardhouse the major has a right to go and see him." "Hum!" growled Josiah Crabtree.
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