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Updated: June 13, 2025
The loot'nant had buckets of water all around inside, and every little while a patrol ran round on the outside, and half the fellows kept watch at the loop-holes while the others slept, and Mr. Davies had the office side of the stockade battened up with old wagons and boxes and things to fill the gap.
"My God! captain, it's Loot'nant Ray, an' he's most dead." In an instant Truscott had halted the command and was at the side of his old friend, whom the men had lowered, weak and faint, to the ground.
It was so dark I couldn't see me hand afore me face, sor; but about half-past two I was walkin' very slow down back of the quarters, whin just close by Loot'nant Jerrold's back gate I seen somethin' movin', and as I come softly along it riz up, an' sure I thought 'twas the loot'nant himself, whin he seemed to catch sight o' me or hear me, and he backed inside the gate an' shut it.
Keen on the scout, tireless on the trail, daring to a fault in action, and either preternaturally cool or enthusiastically excited when under fire. He is a man the rank and file swear by and love. "You never hear Loot'nant Ray saying 'Go in there, fellers. 'Tis always, 'Come on, boys. That's why I like him," is the way Sergeant Moriarty puts it.
She ran out on the roadway in front and hailed the very next party straggling in, the wife and the cook of the agency clerk, importuning them to say was Mac badly hurt. "Mac ain't hurt at all," said the new arrivals, hot after a long and needless tramp. "How was he to get hurt? It's Loot'nant Davies that's shot. Red Dog tried to kill him."
"Sorry I couldn't have had a crack at him myself," muttered Hippy. "It was Lum that pestered ye so. Ah set him on ye an' put up that bear story, but you-all didn't swaller it," he added, nodding to Hippy. "Say, Loot'nant, are ye sartin you-all ain't Jim Townsend?" "Well," reflected Hippy, "I may say I am reasonably certain that I'm not." "You folks wait here till we-uns come back.
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