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Updated: May 23, 2025
There had been little communication between them, it is true, but when there had been the subordinate officer never overlooked the deference due his superior. "I wish you would take this book," said Captain Von Tollig, after he had told briefly how the volume happened to be in his possession, "and see if you can translate it.
"Send Lieutenant Smith to me," he said. By one of the odd chances of a war where, like that in the Philippines, the forces at first must be hastily raised, Captain Von Tollig and the subordinate officer for whom he had sent, had been citizens of the same town. The captain had been a business man, shrewd and keen, too keen some of his neighbors sometimes said of him.
"Well?" said Captain Von Tollig, when the man appeared at headquarters, and the orderly who had brought him had retired. "The little book, Señor. You said I could have it back, and go." "Yes. You may go. I will have you sent safely through our lines; but the book I have decided to keep." The man's face grew ash-colored with disappointment or anger. "But, Señor," he protested. "You told me "
Inland the ground rose to the thickly forest-clad slope of a mountain, to which the American officers felt sure the Tagalogs had finally retreated. Early in the evening, when the heat of the day had passed, a group of these officers were standing with Captain Von Tollig in the center of the camp, examining the mountain slope with their glasses.
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