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Captain Maxey was horrified at these depredations, but the Colonel advised him to shut his eyes. "They've got hard going before them; let them travel light. If they'd rather stand the cold, they've got a right to choose."
She looked honest and stubborn and unconvinced, he thought, as if she did not in the least understand. "I'll take these," he said. "And the others just pitch them over, don't you think?" B Company's first officer, Captain Maxey, was so seasick throughout the voyage that he was of no help to his men in the epidemic.
The company was to be attached to a battalion which had already seen service, commanded by Lieutenant Colonel Scott. Arriving early in the morning, the officers reported at once to Headquarters. Captain Maxey must have suffered a shock when the Colonel rose from his desk to acknowledge his salute, then shook hands with them all around and asked them about their journey.
They were completely worn out, lost to time and place. Many of them were already four thousand miles away, scattered among little towns and farms on the prairie. They were a miserable looking lot as they got together, stumbling about in the dark. After the Colonel had gone over the map with Captain Maxey, he came out and saw the Company assembled.
The color went out of his sister Joan's face. She dreaded the answer; and her instinct was right. "The cure of Maxey brought it." There was a general gasp. We knew him, you see, for a trusty man. "Did he believe it?" The hearts almost stopped beating. Then came the answer: "He did. And that is not all. He said he knew it to be true." Some of the girls began to sob; the boys were struck silent.
The following spirits are known to the ballyan of the Mayo district: I. DIWATA. A good spirit who is besought for aid against the machinations of evil beings. The people of Mayo claim that they do not now, nor have they at any time made images of their gods, but in the vicinity of Cateel Maxey has seen wooden images called manaog, which were said to represent Diwata on earth.
One day we had been over to have one of our occasional pitched battles with those hated Burgundian boys of the village of Maxey, and had been whipped, and were arriving on our side of the river after dark, bruised and weary, when we heard the bell ringing the tocsin.
He's been sending cables about that parade for weeks." "Huh!" Hicks elevated his eyebrows and glanced sidewise in disdain. Presently he sputtered, squinting down at the glittering water, "Colonel Maxey, anyhow! Colonel for what Claude and Gerhardt did, I guess!" Hicks and Bert Fuller have been helping to keep the noble fortress of Ehrenbreitstein.
He had come to France with the First Division, and had won his promotions by solid, soldierly qualities. "I see you're an officer short, Captain Maxey," the Colonel remarked at their conference. "I think I've got a man here to take his place. Lieutenant Gerhardt is a New York man, came over in the band and got transferred to infantry. He has lately been given a commission for good service.
Grace, formerly of the neighborhood of Warrenton, Va., but for two years a resident of this city. He was detected in giving free passes to slaves and brought to trial before Squire Maxey. Unfortunately for the wretch, either through the want of law or evidence, he could not be punished, and he was set at liberty by the magistrate.
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