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The washerwoman had for a long time looked on the veteran with the eyes of affection; and she had determined within herself to remove certain delicate objections which had long embarrassed her peculiar situation, as respected the corps, by making the sergeant the successor of her late husband.
"Doubtless the money is base," said the sergeant, a little staggered at such an evidence of honesty in one of whom, as to generals, he thought so meanly.
"But the dark one has no bowels, except to devour the children of men," said the sergeant, looking around him in horror; "and it's best to make friends everywhere, for there is no telling what may happen till it comes.
Take awful warning from the visit therefore - "Here the dialogue was interrupted by a peremptory summons to the sutler to prepare the morning's repast, and they were obliged to separate; the woman secretly hoping that the interest the sergeant manifested was more earthly than he imagined; and the man, bent on saving a soul from the fangs of the dark spirit that was prowling through their camp in quest of victims.
"You will please to remember, Captain John Lawton, that I am not the riding master of the regiment - nor a drill sergeant - nor a crazy cornet; no, sir - and I speak it with a due respect for the commission of the Continental Congress - nor an inconsiderate captain, who regards his own life as little as that of his enemies.
Before a blazing fire sat Sergeant Hollister and Betty Flanagan, enjoying themselves over a liberal potation.
"Advance," said the sergeant, throwing a look of close scrutiny on the black, as he brought him to the light; "advance, and deliver your dispatches.
"I tell you, Elizabeth," said the sergeant, "that the souls of niggers are the same as our own; how often have I heard the good Mr. Whitefield say that there was no distinction of color in heaven.
Sergeant Hollister turned promptly on his heel, and seizing big saber, the steel was glittering by the firelight, in the twinkling of an eye; but perceiving the intruder to be the peddler, who stood near the open door that led to the lean-to in the rear, he began to fall back towards the position of the black, with a military intuition that taught him to concentrate his forces.
Come forward, dear, and fale the fire; Sergeant Hollister won't be hurting you, for the fear of an ill turn you may be doing him hereafter - will ye, sargeant dear?""Depart, ungodly man!" cried the veteran, edging still nearer to Caesar, but lifting his legs alternately as they scorched with the heat.
The sergeant ceased to utter aloud, but the motion of his lips continued, and a few scattering words of prayer were alone audible.
"Where?" interrupted the sergeant, instinctively laying his hand on the hilt of his saber.
"Nay, Betty, nay," said the sergeant, laying his hand familiarly on her shoulder; "if there must be riding to-night, let it be by him whose duty it is to call out the men and set an example.
A short half hour will bring down that canting sergeant and the guard upon us.
And didn't the boys t'ink him dead, and turn and l'ave the rig'lars the day?""You lie back again," cried the sergeant, fiercely; "and so does anyone who says that we didn't gain the day."
The consent of the sergeant being obtained, the equipage of Mrs. Flanagan was soon in readiness to receive its burden.
"The black is there already, and it's tardy the captain will think ye.""Are you sure that it was really a black man that brought the order?" said the sergeant, dropping in between the platoons, where he could converse with Betty, and be at hand, to lead on an emergency, either on an advance or on a retreat.
and isn't it caractur and life too that Captain Jack has to lose!""Halt!" cried the sergeant.
"Courage and prudence are the jewels of a soldier, Mrs. Flanagan," said the sergeant; "without the one, the other may be said to be good for nothing."
A volley of musketry now rattled in the night wind, and the sergeant exclaimed,-"March! - quick time!"
Betty herself had advanced to the spot where the sergeant was posted, and, with an incredible degree of composure, witnessed the whole of the events as they occurred.
Sergeant Hollister would be glad to hold a candle to him, indeed!""Pooh!" said Betty, in her philosophical way; "ye're no thinking that Mister Hollister is an officer, and stands next the cornet, in the troop.
"But without mortal motion," said the sergeant, regarding it with awful reverence.
"Whew-ew-ew - what a noble commander you'd make for Sergeant Hollister!
"There is a sergeant at this moment looking after us, as if he thought all was not right; the keen-eyed fellow watches me like a tiger lying in wait for his leap.
Mason and the sergeant, being better mounted than the rest of the party, were much nearer to their heels than even the peddler thought could be possible.
Here the captain and his sergeant both dismounted, and ordered the party to halt.
A small cord was produced from the pocket of the sergeant, and handed to the other.
The sergeant, in obedience to a look from his officer, placed it beneath the beam.
So saying, he retired to the road with the sergeant, as the peddler precipitately retreated down the bank.
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