- THREE:"Well, I'm goin' to read your old letter for you, if you'll just gi' me time," remonstrated Maria. "What are you in such a hurry for, old cross-patch? Le' me see:A wordy war ensued, but the first-comer was stalwart and determined. The row waked up Shorty, who appeared with an ax. ONE:"Do you men know of a squad of Injianny recruits commanded by Serg't Klegg?"As the train ran out into the country there were plentiful signs of war to rivet the attention of the youngstershospitals, with the emaciated patients strolling feebly about; corrals of mules and horses, the waste and wreckage where camps had been, and bridges which had been burned and rebuilt. GET AWESOME FEATURE LIST
- THREE: ONE:The rumbling came again, and sounded nearer. Cadnan thought of machines shaking his small room, perhaps making it hot as the machines made metal hot. If that happened, he knew, he would die.Automatic sweep searchlights were keyed in. The machinery continued to respond. GET AWESOME FEATURE LIST
- THREE: ONE:"Have you got them all aboard, Sergeant?" in quired Lieut. Bowersox. GET AWESOME FEATURE LIST
THREE:That thought was too terrible for him to contemplate for long, and he began to change it, little by little, in his mind. Perhaps (for instance) the chain was only broken for him and for Marvor: perhaps it still worked as well as ever for all those who still obeyed the rules. That was better: it kept the world whole, and sane, and reasonable. But along with it came the picture of Gornom, watching small Cadnan sadly. Cadnan felt a weight press down on him, and grow, and grow. found hE kooddEnt do that, hE wAntid 2 tElEgrAf 2 Arrest u &
THREE: hEAd & brink u bAk."Here's your money," he said, thumbing over the bills clumsily and regretfully.
THREE:"Ain't we most there, Pap?" Si asked querulously."Well, orders is orders, and got to be obeyed," said the Orderly-Sergeant, cutting short the discussion with the usual formulary of his class. An Orderly-Sergeant is robbed of one of the cherished privileges of the other enlisted men. He can not criticise or grumble, but must stop the others from doing so beyond a certain point, and his refuge must be the prompt assumption that the orders are all right, and must be executed cheerfully. And he has not the satisfaction of the officers above him in knowing the why and wherefore of the orders, and perhaps advising as to them. He is "betwixt and between," as they say out West.
