"Rest!" Whereupon they resumed their seats on the bench.

"Remember that a promise is a promise.
And I've seen enough of soldiers to know that they're likely to be careless where it hurts most." "I'd do anything Captain Prescott asked me to do," remarked one of the soldiers when Dick had passed on out of barracks.
"If I knew anything he wanted me to do I'd do it before he asked me," declared another.
When a captain's men feel that way about him it's a cinch that he commands a real fighting unit..