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The men were looking to him, calling upon him as the boldest of the rebels. Only a few of them knew about the sudden change in his fortunes. Even while he hesitated, the line of battle had swept past him; the Englishman, Wauchope, sprang upon the steps and began to address the throng. He was one of the bowed and stunted men, but in this emergency he developed sudden lung-power.
Tim Rafferty was made treasurer and secretary. Then a committee was chosen to go to Cartwright with the demands of the men. It included Hal, Wauchope, and Tim; an Italian named Marcelli, whom Jerry had vouched for; a representative of the Slavs and one of the Greeks Rusick and Zammakis, both of them solid and faithful men.
Bill Wauchope had only a wife their babies had died, thank heaven, he said. He did not seem to have been much moved by Jim Moylan's pleadings; he was down and out; he would take to the road, and beat his way to the East and back to England. They called this a free country! By God, if he were to tell what had happened to him, he could not get an English miner to believe it!
Among the slain was General Wauchope. From the day of this battle until February 11, the opposing forces continued in the positions occupied by them before the engagement, Methuen upon the north bank of the Modder, Cronje holding the ranges at Magersfontein and Spytfontein.
Granville, after all, hadn't made him feel a silly ass. It kept him in a state of being tickled. It tickled Wauchope and Fred Booty. They met him with "What price Granville?" They called him by turns Baron Granville of Granville, and the Marquis or the Duke of Granville.
This was the man who had come from India to take the place of poor Wauchope, and to put fresh heart into the gallant but sorely stricken brigade.
Magersfontein also had cost them dear, and there General Wauchope had met his fate; while at Stormberg seven hundred of them had been taken prisoners, and three of their big guns had been captured by us. At Magersfontein were six or seven thousand Transvaal burghers under General Piet Cronje, with General De la Rey as second in command.
How am I going to show them that I'm working for them working as hard as I know how and that I'm not to blame for their trouble?" Here Wauchope broke in. "There's no use talking any more. I see we're up against it. We'll not trouble you, Moylan." "You trouble me," cried Moylan, "unless you stand by the movement!" The other laughed bitterly. "You'll never know what I do.
sang Wauchope. The sound of that singing made Ransome feel noble; and there is nothing more insidiously destructive than feeling noble. And then, later on, it was a strange and a more poignant cry that melted him, so that his very soul dissolved in tenderness and yearning. /P "Jesu, Lover o-of my soul," P/ sang the young man with the tenor.
A thousand resolute and skilful men, who knew how to use both rifle and bayonet, could hold the place against 20,000 of the finest troops in the world, providing the defenders were not hopelessly crushed by an immense artillery force. General Hector Macdonald went through here the other day to take the command of the Highland Brigade, in the place of the late General Wauchope.
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