And the walls around are bare;"That you take them to civilization—the missus and the kid. It's the only salvation for all three of you—for you as well as them."
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Landor and his lieutenant jumped up and ran down the walk. "What's all this, Dutchy?" they asked.The column halted, and the lieutenant in command rode back. He, too, looked down at the horse, pulling at his mustache with one gauntleted hand. He had played with Cabot when they had been children together, in that green land of peace and plenty which they called the East. They had been schoolmates, and they had the same class sympathies even now, though the barrier of rank was between them, and the dismounted man was a private in Landor's own troop. Landor liked the private for the sake of the old times and for the memory of a youth which had held a better promise for both than manhood had fulfilled.