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The officer in command had a rough litter made from the branches of trees, on which they placed the exhausted little girl. Four soldiers were then told off to carry it, and then the little band resumed its march. Elise could not have been in a place of greater safety.
Captain Dunbar, you know him, I believe. He has asked especially that you should be there as well." "Yes, sir, I have met the General. To my mind he is an ideal soldier." "Yes, and an ideal officer," said the O. C. "He knows his job and he is always fit and keen."
Don't step off so lively, if you mean to pass for a Mexican." "Hold on, Grant," said another officer, standing near them. "Don't you think the Mexicans have been lively enough since we left Perote? I've had to step around a good deal myself on their account." "Just so," said Grant. "But that's while they're fighting. When they're at anything like work, though, it's a different kind of movement.
He stopped and asked me some extraordinary questions ... and" hesitatingly "you have to be careful talking to people in the front line." The adjutant and the intelligence officer of the infantry battalion were smiling broadly. Finally the colonel had to laugh. "Yes," he said, "I can identify the artillery officer. Here he is. You haven't discovered a spy this time."
Thence to the Charles, and were troubled to see her kept so neglectedly by the boatswain Clements, who I always took for a very good officer; it is a very brave ship.
What time do you think you shall be at leisure?" "At any hour that suits your convenience." "Would to-morrow morning be too soon?" hinted the officer. "That time is as well as at a later period." "And the distance? We must not talk about feet, but how many rods our friends are to be placed apart?" Merriam said.
I laughed as I went downstairs, in that mood of merriment which was my one sign of excitement at the near approach of peril. A pause at the grateful fire, and a moment later I was saddling Lucy, looking well to girth and bit, and last buckling on the spurs of a Hessian officer. In a few minutes I was trotting up Fifth street.
"Riley," declared Dave, heartily, "you're as good a man as there is in the United States Navy!" Whereat the petty officer fairly blushed with pride. "All our men are so good," added Trent, genially, "that it's a difficult task to pick the best." The surviving bandits had fled. Trent's orders forbade pursuing beyond the house.
Then there arose a sudden outcry as the crew forsook their guns and made a mad dash at the two small boats slung to the davits, there was a frantic jangling of bells down in the destroyer's engine-room, an officer on her bridge snatched a revolver from his belt and snapped off five shots at me in as many seconds none of which took effect and then we were upon her.
At this seeming show of submission the face of the officer relaxed, and the men in his company lowered their carbines and stood more at ease pending the result of the dialogue. "Monsieur is not a Frenchman?" questioned the officer, with a look from one face to the other.
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