ONE:"Orderly, I'd like to git off a little while today." "Why, Shorty," remonstrated the busy Sergeant, "you were off yesterday. But go. I'll try to get along without you. Don't stay long."Si was too deeply exercised about getting his squad together to pay attention to Shorty or the jeering, taunting railroaders. He became very fearful that some of them had been caught and badly hurt, probably killed, by the remorseless locomotives.
TWO:"You bet," answered Shorty, "and I'll take durned good care I don't lose little Pete Skidmore."
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TWO:Si had gone up the path that he had found the night before, and therefore had no struggle with the fallen trees to shake his nerves and disturb his aim. He had calculated upon this. He brought his musket down deliberately and took good aim at the point whence the voice of command had come. As his gun cracked he heard voices cry:
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TWO:"There are spots the steel's never covered," he said. "You can tunnel through if you're lucky." A pause. "I"
FORE:He was carrying his Belbis beam, of course. The little metal tube didn't look like much, but it was guaranteed to stop anything short of a spaceship in its tracks, and by the very simple method of making holes. The Belbis beam would make holes in nearly anything: Alberts, people or most materials. It projected a quarter-inch beam of force in as near a straight line as Einsteinian physics would allow, and it was extremely efficient. Albin had been practicing with it for three years, twice a week."Si Klegg, be careful how you call me a liar," answered the Orderly. "I'll"
FORE:Shorty had stopped for an instant to turn over into an easier position the rebel he had shot.
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FORE:"So did Shorty," added Si, determined that his partner should not lack full measure of recognition.
"Hold your fire till we are across," shouted the Colonel. "ForwardGuide centerDouble-quickMarch!"It is my death and my song."Excuse me. Doctor," said Si, recovering himself and saluting. "I'm very hungry, and worried to death with these frisky kids that I'm trying to git to my regiment. The only trouble is that some of the trundle-bed graduates took their first chaw o' terbacker this mornin' on empty stomachs and it keeled 'em over. Come here and look at 'em yourself. You'll see it in a minute."