FORE:"Yes, except that in closing my testimony I feel that it is my duty to impress upon the court that so flagrant a case as this should be made the opportunity for an example in the interests of discipline in the whole army. I have known this prisoner for some time, and watched him. This is not the first time that he and the Sergeant have insulted me. They are leaders in that class of uneducated fellows who have entirely too little respect for officers and gentlemen. They should be taught a lesson. This is necessary for the dignity and effectiveness of gentlemen who bear commissions, and"
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FORE:Chapter 9Si and Shorty hurriedly posted the men behind trees and rocks, cautioned them to wait for orders, and fire low, and then stationed themselves, one at the right, and the other at the left of the irregular line. They had scarcely done so when the rebels came surging through the "deadening" in a torrent. They were urged on by two mounted officers wear ing respectively the silver stars of a Colonel and a Major.
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FORE:"Well, I ain't done yet," continued the Orderly-Sergeant. "That little snipe, Pete Skidmore""Indeed you won't," said Shorty, under his breath.
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FORE:"Paste him with a bullet and settle him," said Shorty testily, for he wanted to go on with his letter.
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FORE:Cadnan picked his way across the room over wakeful Alberts.
FORE:"Only .50 apiece. Holy smoke! They're payin' 10 times that in some places."
FORE:"Nothing is predicated on necessity but action," Dr. Haenlingen said. "Certainly not success."As ill-tempered as tired, the boys roused up from the ground, and began taking their guns from the stacks. Harry Joslin snatched his out first, and the stack, falling over, the bayonet points struck Gid Mackall's face. The angry Gid responded with a blow landed on the side of Harry's head. In an instant the two clinched, and the others, who were in no better humor, began striking at one another in blind temper. Si and Shorty snatched the two principals apart with a good deal of violence and much show of their own tempers.
FORE:But he knew who had. Long before, it had all been carefully explained to him. All of the tricks that had been used...."Don't know about that," said the Sheriff doubtfully. "They've bin gittin' sassier and sassier lately, and've showed more willingness to fight. They've put up several very nasty little shindies at one place or another. Out at Charleston, Ill., they killed the Sheriff and a lot o' soldiers right in the Courthouse yard in broad daylight. I believe they've got rebels for officers. We mustn't take no chances."
FORE:Cadnan kept telling himself that where Marvor had gone he, too, could go. But Marvor had had a plan, and Cadnan had none. "And there lay the rider, distorted and pale.
