Category: Adventure
The command was sharp, distinct, soldierly. The first set of fours moved straight to the front with unhesitating firmness and uniformity of step; the orderly sergeant took his place to the left of the set with ease and rapidity. The remainder of the battalion broke into fours,...
The command was sharp, distinct, soldierly. The first set of fours moved straight to the front with unhesitating firmness and uniformity of step; the orderly sergeant took his p...
2. CHAPTER II.“Stop this!” he cried, laying a firm hand on each wrestler; but in an instant they had broken from his grasp, and fell, struggling, panting, and still fighting, to the floor.
3. CHAPTER III.He looked from one to the other of the persons present in unfeigned astonishment. Beginning to recover his presence of mind, he took up the papers and examined them. Surely enou...
4. CHAPTER IV.“I promised your committee,” he said, “to give you my decision at this time in the matter of your proposed holiday. I will say at the outset, that your request, if it may be con...
5. CHAPTER V.Brede, Brightly, and the larger boys leaped up, caught the top of the fence, and swung themselves over lightly, while others unable to do this ran along the base of it wildly, l...
6. CHAPTER VI.At the edge of the platform Brede tripped and fell, with Brightly so close behind that he stumbled involuntarily over the captain’s prostrate body. In an instant both boys were...
7. CHAPTER VII.On the morning of the departure of the rebels from Riverpark, Mr. Graydon, one of the teachers, happening to stand at the window of his recitation-room, saw the boys as they ran...
8. CHAPTER VIII.The two combatants, clasped tightly in each other’s arms, plunged into a party of teachers and cadets who were hastening upward in response to Brightly’s cry of “Fire!” In anoth...