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His father, who commands the operations, is behind with the Reserve, and he disappears round the bend on the make-belief of getting instructions from the chief. The General is far in the rear but his son comes back at the gallop, rides up to Neill, and saluting with his sword, says, "You are to carry the bridge at once, sir."
I'll just take a run up this hill and see if I can't find the missing section and persuade it to stay a while. I don't reckon you need me hyer, do you?" he grinned, with a glance at Neill and his burden. "All right. You'll find me here when you get back, Fraser," the other answered. Larry carried the girl to the water-hole and set her down beside it.
Need we remind the reader of the names of Havelock, Inglis, Neill, and Outram men of truly heroic mould of each of whom it might with truth be said that he had the heart of a chevalier, the soul of a believer, and the temperament of a martyr. Montalembert has said of them that "they do honour to the human race."
Straight across the plain we went, until we came nearly to the base of the heights, where the hosts of the enemy awaited us, then taking the Bowling Green road, filed to the right and proceeded to the rear of Fredericksburgh; the Seventy-seventh in front, the Twenty-first New Jersey, the Forty-ninth New York, Twentieth New York, Seventh Maine and Thirty-third New York, constituting the Third brigade, under command of General Neill, following in the order mentioned.
Neill, till his own labors had satisfied him of Gorges's guilt, and his conclusions were formed, the author cheerfully recognizes the priority to his own demonstration, of the suggestions of both these gentlemen. No thing appears of record, however, to indicate that John Pierce was in any way a party to Gorges's plot.
On the 25th he was cutting his way through the streets and lanes of the city of Lucknow running the gauntlet of a deadly and unremitting fire from the houses en both sides of the streets, and also from guns which commanded them. On the evening of the same day he entered the British intrenchments; but in the moment of victory a chance shot carried off the gallant Neill.
To Miss Neill, on the same day, after repeating his conviction that he was in the right place, he says: 'I have written to them at home what I ought not perhaps to have said of myself, but that it will give them comfort that from all sides my being here as the Bishop's companion is hailed as likely to produce very beneficial results.
'Always, my dear Miss Neill, 'Your very affectionate, The Sundays were days of little rest.
The inhabitants crowded and pressed so much upon the strangers that the bailiff, or resident factor of the island, blew with his ox-horn, calling out to the natives to stand off and let the gentlemen come forward to the laird; upon which one of the islanders, as spokesman, called out, "God ha'e us, man! thou needsna mak' sic a noise. Patrick Neill, were received by an old lady in a Ronaldsay hut.
We've got to ride twenty miles for fresh hawsses and these have got to have a little rest." They unsaddled and picketed, then strolled to the spring. "I've been thinking that maybe we have made a mistake. Isn't it possible the man with Miss Kinney is not Struve?" asked Neill. "That's easy proved. You saw him this mo'ning." The lieutenant went down into his pocket once more for a photograph.
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