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They were striving patently to prove that there was nothing between them; and if Andrew had been on guard, now he became tinglingly so. They arranged their bunks; Larry la Roche took from his vest a pipe with a small bowl and a long stem and sat down cross-legged to smoke. Andrew suggested that Larry produce the contents of his saddlebag and share the spoils of war.
I know the value of oaths sworn to Huguenots; but in this case, I think they will be kept, for I swear to you and I am in the habit of keeping my oaths that if you break your undertaking, I will not break mine." As soon as it was daylight, Pierre produced from his saddlebag an ink horn, paper, and pens; and the ten prisoners signed their name to an order for the release of the four captives.
I, therefore, stopped, and, taking the bridle and saddle from the horse, hid them in the corner of a fence in a cornfield. Then I went into the woods. The papers which I had were in the saddlebag safe. The place where I stayed in the daytime was in a large shuck-pen a pen built in the field to feed stock from, in the winter time. This pen was on Dr.
Major Howrigan, of that regiment, thinking that the Sixth ought to occupy the attention of the enemy so completely as to shield his men from annoyance, galloped up to where I was, and excitedly asked if we could not make it hotter for them. "They are shooting my men off their horses," he shouted. As he halted to deliver this message, a bullet struck the saddlebag in rear of his left leg.
Fergus drank half of the contents of the flask, and then handed it to Karl. "You finish it up," he said. "You want it as much as I do." "Not so much, master; but I want it badly enough, I own." Having drank, he proceeded to rebandage his master's wounds, first laying on them rolls of lint he took from his own saddlebag. "I never go on a campaign without lint and a bandage or two," he said.
And then Larry la Roche went down the line with a saddlebag and took up the collection. "Passin' the hat so often has give me a religious touch, ladies and gents," Andrew heard the ruffian say. "Any little contributions I'm sure grateful for, and, if anything's held back, I'm apt to frisk the gent that don't fork over. Hey, you, what's that lump inside your coat? Lady, don't lie.
"Sergeant, what's all this about bushwhackers?" Drew repeated the story of their adventure in Tennessee, paring it down to the bald facts. "That nest was wiped out by the Yankee patrol, suh. Afterward Private Croff found a saddlebag with some papers in it, which was in the remains of their camp. It looks like they'd been picking off couriers from both sides.
When the horses were saddled, Dick rolled two of these up, strapped one on the high peak, and the other on the cantle of the saddle upon which the girl was to ride. "That will wedge you in pretty tightly," he said. "Now, Ibrahim, put the things into the saddlebag, and then we shall be ready." When this was done, the two horses were led outside.
He dismounted, threw his saddlebags on the bench, and, after sousing his heated face in the friendly basin, sat down to the table and proceeded to make amends for lost time. "Bring a paper with you, Pete?" asked one of his friends as he pushed back his chair and lighted his pipe. "Yes," answered Pete between mouthfuls. "Got a copy of the Helena 'Record. You'll find it in the saddlebag."
It was agreed at once that the fowls should be left for early breakfast; and the beef put aside for dinner, and for supper, also, if nothing else could be obtained. Karl, as the servant of the junior officer, was cook for the evening, and he acquitted himself admirably. Each officer carried in his saddlebag a tin plate, a drinking horn, and a knife, fork, and spoon.
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