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"Nay," he answered quietly. "I can achieve it without help." She drew a breath as if to speak but held her peace. They stood in silence side by side for a while. Presently she slipped between him and the parapet. "Hast thou not called me wise in thy time?" she asked. "I believed thee, then." "I told thee a truth, but I might have added that thou art over-brave," he said, catching her drift.
I was not an over-brave boy, but the thought of my father languishing in prison because of these men's misdeeds, nerved me to stay. The closet door was still open, and that gave me a sudden idea. As I jumped from the desk another idea struck me, and without any hesitation I scattered the papers on the floor and upset the ink-well.
"Well, serves me right for butting in," he added philosophically. "Let's go up and see who it is?" said Eph. "He must be in the cave." "You go first," said Sam Higgins, who was not over-brave, "it might be a bad man or an Indian." "Pshaw, I'm not afraid!" said Masterson. "Give me your pistol, Sam, if you're scared." "I'm not scared, but there's no use running into trouble," said Sam.
It was the business of B.-P. to raise a force of natives, and to proceed with this little army as soon as possible in front of the expedition, acting as a covering force. That is to say, the work of these undrilled, stupid, and not over-brave natives was scouting, a duty which while it is the most fascinating part of a soldier's life is also one of the most difficult.
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