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Updated: June 14, 2025
"What do you want to see Aiken for?" asked the cowboy Sibert. "I want to face him, and tell him I never harmed his wife." "Why?" "Because I'm innocent, that's all." "Suppose we send for Aiken an' he hears you an' doesn't believe you; what then?" "If he won't believe me why, then my case's so bad I'd be better off dead." A momentary silence was broken by Sibert. "If this isn't a queer deal!
So much is told of the commanding influence of Colonel Goethals, the chief in command; of the administrative talents of Colonel Gorgas, the head of the sanitary department; of the engineering skill of Colonel Sibert, the protagonist of the Gatun dam, that an Englishman must wish to claim kinship with these American officers who are making so large a mark upon the surface of the earth.
Devotion to the great work in hand has exorcised meaner feelings, and you will hear little of the "boost" which we are tempted to associate with the other side of the Atlantic. I asked Colonel Sibert whether his initial calculations had needed much correction as the operation developed. "Our guesses" he replied, "have been remarkably fortunate."
Many of the besieged were burnt to death, but Liba and her father hastened to a little chamber at the base of the schloss, and thence they won to a subterranean passage which was known only to themselves, and which led to a distant place in the surrounding wilds. Gazing at the blackened ruins, Sir Sibert felt as though henceforth the world held for him no joy whatsoever.
He had a gun in his hand, and his manner was that of fierce energy. The cowboy Sibert thrust open the jostling circle of men. "Hold on, Jeff," he called, and he blocked the man with the gun. He spoke so low Duane could not hear what he said, and his form hid Aiken's face. At that juncture the crowd spread out, closed in, and Aiken and Sibert were caught in the circle.
Each was equally importunate, but only one was in any way favoured, Sir Sibert Ulenthal, and at the time the story opens this Sir Sibert had lately become affianced to Sir Balthers daughter. Now Sir Balther felt an ardent aversion to one of his neighbours, the Bishop of Cologne, and his hatred of this prelate was shared abundantly by various other knights and nobles of the district.
"Sure this 's your game, Aiken," said Sibert. "But hear me a minute. Reckon there's no doubt about this man bein' Buck Duane. He seen the placard out at the cross-roads. He rides in to Shirley. He says he's Buck Duane an' he's lookin' for Jeff Aiken. That's all clear enough. You know how these gunfighters go lookin' for trouble. But here's what stumps me.
His Majesty was persuaded to give the requisite document to Sir Sibert, who then hied him at full speed to The Mount, there to find the siege going forward. The walls of the castle were strong, and as yet the inmates were showing a good fight; but as day after day went past their strength and resources began to wane, and anon it seemed as though they could not possibly hold out longer.
June 5 Nearly 10,000,000 men in U. S. register for military service. June 12 King Constantino of Greece abdicates. June 13 Gen. Pershing and staff arrive in Paris. June 15 First Liberty loan closes with large over-subscription. June 26 First contingent American troops under Gen. Sibert arrives in France. June 29 Greece severs diplomatic relations with Teutonic allies.
It would seem, nevertheless, that those pious exercises wherewith hermits chiefly occupy themselves were not his only occupation; for long after the chapel itself had become a ruin its sight was marked by a great stone which bore an inscription in rude characters the single word Liba. Doubtless Sir Sibert had hewn this epitaph with his own hands. Rolandseck and Nonnenwerth
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