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Cutlass and Cudgel

CHAPTER THIRTY SIX
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"No one need be lost for long, if he has a voice.

Don't hear any of the others though." He shouted again and again, getting answers, and gradually diminishing the distance, till he saw dimly the figure of a stoutly built man, and the next minute he was saluted with,-- "Oh, it's you, is it, Mr Raystoke?
Pretty run you've led me.

Pray what sort of a game do you call this ?" "Game, sir!" said Archy ruefully; "it's horribly hard work!" "Hard work! To you, sir--a mere boy! Then what do you suppose it is to me?
I have hardly a breath left in me." "But where are the men Mr Gurr ?" "The men, Mr Raystoke, sir?
That's what I was going to ask you.

Now just have the goodness to tell me what you mean by forgetting all the discipline you have been taught, and leading these poor chaps off on such a wild-goose chase." "I, Mr Gurr ?" said Archy in astonishment.
"Yes, sir, you, sir.

What am I to say to Mr Brough when we get back?
I am in command of this expedition, and you lead the men away like a pack of mad March hares, and now I find you here without them.


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