The Colonel ordered Si to bring his prisoner back into a gully some distance behind the line, where he could be interrogated without the sound reaching the men in the works.
It was decided to hold all the prisoners in the lodge until morning, and two of the boys who had gotten pretty badly banged about the head were sent back to the railroad to relieve and assist the guard left there.A tiny white-haired woman stood there, her mouth one thin line of disapproval. "Well," she said. "Having a good time?"
"You'll do nothin' o' the kind," said Si impatiently. "What's eatin' you? What'd you skip out from our house for? What'd you mean""I saw some men tryin' to cross the crick there," replied Jim, pointing with his rammer in the direction of the opposite bank.A LITTLE INITIATORY SKIRMISH WITH THE GUERRILLAS."Don't mind me. Doctor," said Alf. "'Taint hurting me now, at all, scarcely. I did it up very carefully."An angry mix-up, school boy rules, followed, to the great detriment of the rations. Si and Shorty rushed up, separated the combatants, and administered shakes, cuffs, and sharp reprimands.
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