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Down, into the midst of all that paralyzed but still conscious hate, to the very place of the supremely sacred Black Stone, itself. The raiding-party, beside its two leaders, consisted of Lombardo, Rennes, Emilio, Wallace, and three others, including Lebon.
This leaves the raiders to deal with the troops within that box preventing any others coming in to support them. The weakness of this method is that it lets the whole German line know what we are doing, and the raiding-party frequently gets cut up badly by the enemy's artillery when they are returning across No Man's Land.
"I think not; it is a little raiding-party of rifle-men. By the way, Anerley, you've never been under fire before, have you?" "Never," said the young pressman, who was conscious of a curious feeling of nervous elation. "Love and poverty and war, they are all experiences necessary to make a complete life. Pass over those cartridges.
Veteran Indian-fighters never fail to give this advice to a recruit: "When it comes to a fight, save the last shot for yourself." But, as it happened, Bob and his companions were not out after hostiles on this particular afternoon, for that raiding-party of Kiowas was already beyond the reach of any force that the commander of Fort Lamoine could have sent in pursuit of it.
The raiding-party leaped in. "Lower away!" commanded the chief Smoothly the winch released the fine steel cable, with a purring sound. Down shot the nacelle, steadily, swiftly, with the major, Leclair, and the others now engaged in the most perilous, dare-devil undertaking imaginable.
It is strongly built, and is intended to attract the attention and delay the advance of a raiding-party, until the Peshawar garrison has had time to take the field. Both of these objects it admirably fulfilled in this case.
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