[Overland by John William De Forest]@TWC D-Link bookOverland CHAPTER XIV 2/18
Und to-morrow we will basture the animals.
It is a goot blace for a gamp, Leftenant, und we shall pe all right in a tay or two." "Does Shubert's leg need attention ?" "No.
It is shust nothing.
Shupert is for tuty." "And you feel perfectly able to take care of yourselves here ?" "Berfectly, Leftenant." "Forty rounds apiece!" "They are issued, Leftenant." "If you are attacked, fire heavily; and if the attack is sharp, retreat to the bluff.
Never mind the wagons; they can be recovered." "I will opey your instructions, Leftenant." Thurstane was feverish and exhausted; he knew that Weber was as good a soldier as himself; and still he went back to the village with an anxious heart; such is the tenderness of the military conscience as to _duty_. By the time he reached the upper landing of the wall of the pueblo it was sunset, and he paused to gaze at a magnificent landscape, the _replica_ of the one which he had seen at sunrise.
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