James Bradshaw and Simeon Wheelwright, the two tall, stalwart men who had stood on the right and who had shown great coolness during the fight, gave one look at the dismembered limbs, turned pale as death, gasped, and fell in a faint.
"Pull out just a little more, boys," Si said pleasantly. "We must be almost there. It can't be but a little ways now."Then he heard little Abel Waite say:"What's them?" she asked suspiciously.And then the training was finished. The new Alberts went on a daily work-schedule, supervised only by the spy-sets and an occasional, deliberately random visit from a master. The visits were necessary, too: the Alberts had not the sophistication to react to a spy-set, and personal supervision was needed to convince them they were still being watched, they still had to work. A master came, a master saw them working: that, they could understand.The Deacon had grown so wise in the army ways that his first problem was how to hide the remaining four fowls until he should need them.
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