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Twing had better COME EARLY TOMORROW MORNING AND BEGIN." "Begin?" gasped Mr. Sperry in breathless astonishment. "Certainly," said Mrs. Martin in timid explanation. "If he is new to the work the sooner the better." Mr. Sperry could only gaze blankly at his brother official. Had they heard aright?
"I think it was one of them, but I cannot tell which. I have forgotten it, Captain." "Captain Haller!" called the voice of the major; "here a moment, if you please. These are some of the men who were going to hang you, are they not?" Twing pointed to five of the Jarachos who had been captured in the skirmish. "Yes," replied I, "I think so; yet I could not swear to their identity."
"Wot you mean?" asked the boy indignantly. "I mean you can't take off your hat because you've got some things stowed away in it you don't want seen," said Twing, with an immovable face. "Wot things?" exclaimed the boy angrily. Then suddenly recollecting himself, he added, "Go along! You can't fool me! Think you'll make me take off my hat don't you?"
Three or four of us, dismounting, along with Twing, crept cautiously forward to the position we had just left, and, raising our heads over the bunch-grass, looked across the chasm. We were close to its edge, and the opposite "cheek" of the barranca, a huge wall of trap-rock, about a mile horizontally distant, rose at least a thousand feet from the river bottom.
"Look out!" cried Twing, at the same instant flinging his wiry little carcase squat under the brow of a sand-wreath. Several of the party followed his example; but, before all had housed themselves, a shot came singing past, along with the loud report of a twenty-four. The shot struck the comb of the ridge, within several yards of the group, and ricocheted off into the distant hills.
With these feelings, Clayley and I were anxious to do something that might cover our late folly, and win our way back to favour at head-quarters. "Let me take fifty of your men and try this. You know, Major Twing, I have a score to rub out." "I cannot, Captain I cannot. We must on. Forward!" And the next moment we were moving at a trot in the direction of El Plan.
He knew it, and that frightened him, and made him look like a fool, and so bursted up his conspiracy. There's nothin' boys are more afraid of than ridicule, or the man or boy that make 'em ridiculous." "I won't ask you if you call this FAIR to the boy, Mr. Twing?" said Mrs. Martin hotly; "but is this your idea of discipline?"
"Rein back, men! rein back!" shouted Twing, as his eye rested upon the strange object. "Throw yourselves under cover of the hill!" In a minute our whole party dragoons, officers, and all had galloped our horses into the bed of a dry arroyo, where we were completely screened from observation.
Twing, for many years Secretary of the Board of Missions, had travelled across the continent to be present at the meetings of the Woman's Auxiliary, of which she had been the first active Secretary. But sickness came, and after a few days she was cut down like a flower.
I recognised Twing, and Hennessy, and Hillis, and several other officers whom I had met before. We were soon en rapport, and I could not have received a greater variety of congratulations had it been the hour after my wedding. Little Jack was the guide of the rescue. After a moment spent in explanation with the major, I turned to look for Lincoln.
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