"Take their arms and ammunition, but bind them back to back with their belts." "Butt in there, me lads," vociferated Coke, who had accounted for one of the Brazilians with an ax.

"Step lively! Now we've got some uniforms an' guns, we can rush that dam cittydel easy." Hozier was busy relieving his man of his coat.

When the prone warrior realized that he was not to be killed, he helped the operation, but Philip was thinking more of Iris than of deeds of derring-do.
"Why attempt to capture the citadel at all ?" he asked.

"Now that we can make sufficient display, is there any reason that we should not go straight for the launch ?" "Hi, mister, d'ye 'ear that ?" said Coke to De Sylva.

"There's horse sense in it.