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Once down in that room after dark, and we could easily make our escape. Everything went along smoothly that morning. The guard came in to bring our breakfast and empty our slop pail, without any suspicion that any thing was wrong, but about ten o'clock the Sergeant came up with a guard, and commenced looking around as though in search of something.

They were twenty-eight feet long, sixteen or eighteen inches deep, and from sixteen to twenty-four inches wide; and, having lashed them together, everything was ready for setting out the next day, Gibson having now recovered. Sergeant Pryor was directed, with Shannon and Windsor, to take the remaining horses to the Mandans, and if he should find that Mr.

The sergeant, whose minutes of wakefulness were only those when the coach stopped to change horses, and when he got down to mix a "summat hot," paid little attention to his followers, leaving them perfectly free in all their movements, to listen to Mike's eloquence and profit by his suggestions, should they deem fit.

I showed her the programme nervously, but I need not have been nervous. She entered into the spirit of the thing. A thoughtful sergeant, without consulting me, prepared for her a dressing-room at the back of the stage. A modest man himself, he insisted upon my leading her to it. We found there a shelf, covered with newspaper.

"And now we must be getting home for I have a busy afternoon ahead of me." The sergeant shook hands with Shirley and told her that she was wise to make up her mind to play in her own yard. His little girl, he said, never ran away.

"Some one I know," said Barry, standing still and looking from one to the other. "Ay, sir. Some one we all know and greatly respect," replied the sergeant major. "Not not oh, not my father!" The M. O. nodded. "Bad, doctor? Not dying, doctor?" His face was white even in spite of his tan. His hands closed about the doctor's arm in a grip that reached to the bone.

"Put him in the middle of the troop, sergeant," the officer said. "Put a trooper in special charge of him, on each side. Unbuckle his reins, and buckle them on to those of the troopers. Do you ride behind him, and keep a sharp lookout upon him. It is an important capture." Five minutes later, the squadron again started on their way south.

'The sentinel was kind enough to say that I might wait here for my master, who has been arrested by mistake and will soon come out. 'And welcome! cried the sergeant on duty, who had lost money at play on the previous evening. 'At your service! Pray sit down! Bring out a chair!

'Now, I believe, said the officer, thrusting his thumbs between his armpits and his vest, and puffing out his breast pompously, 'I believe, as Little Mac says, 'we can drive them to the wall; we can lessen the limits of their country; but, gentlemen, after all, there will have to be a peace. "I thought," said the Sergeant, "the Captain was going to break in upon him here.

He returned to the MS., then again to Glyde. "You are a bit of a poet, I see." "Yes, sir. I hope so." "If it leads you to battery, my young friend " was his private comment. To Mr. Bazalguet he whispered, "The fellow's got scholarship. We might give these back, I think." Mr. Bazalguet was only too happy, and Glyde saw his offspring returned. Sergeant Weeks, safe in Mr.