CHAPTER XXVI.
THE NEW PERIL I laughed, but without paying him the compliment of looking at him.
"I 've changed allegiance, that's all, Broussard.

It's money which makes the mare go with all of us, eh?
The Captain turned me loose last night." "You wif us?
You go volunter ?" "Well, something like that.

I 'm to be drill-master, or general, for those tattered battalions down in the jungles.

What do you think of the job ?" He shrugged his shoulders, and then grinned.
"What ze dif!" and he swept his hands about in expressive gesture.
"Sea--land, if only one gets the price, M'sieur.

But for me I like to go, to move; not lie still an' rot." "Of course," falling into his mood, "that's in your blood, I reckon, but the Captain said we were only to hide here for a day." "Maybe day, maybe week.