"You don't have to worry," Dodd said. "Nobody's doing anything to her. Not right now, anyhow. Inot right now.""Private Daniel Elliott, Q, 200th Ind."The Deacon's first thought was for Si, and he bestirred himself to do what he thought his wife, who was renowned as a nurse, would do were she there.
TWO:"Is this a place for sleeping?"The sound of rushing feet was heard, and a man armed with a shot-gun came into the plane of light from the open caboose door. Shorty was on the lookout for him, and as he appeared, shouted;
THREE:"Come on over," the master said from the doorway. "Come on over." He made a beckoning motion.
TWO:"Yes, I am," said Si, saluting as stiffly as he dared. "What's the matter?""She must escape," Cadnan said, and Dodd's sadness appeared to grow. He pushed at the air as if he were trying to move it all away.
TWO:Si quietly deployed his boys to the left of the road, and worked them through the brush until they came to the crest overlooking the mill-race. They took readily to this sort of work. They had all hunted rabbits over the hills of southern Indiana, and they came into position so softly that the rebels beyond did not suspect their presence.
When he had reached the master, the master said: "Sit down." He looked strange, Cadnan realized, though he could not tell exactly how."Too bright to sit around and do nothing!""Sergeant, are you in command of this squad?" asked a brisk little man with the green stripes of a Surgeon, who got out of one of the ambulances.
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THREE:"What was it?""Yes, the orders to move has come," said Shorty. "See them big fires, and the boys burnin' up things."
