[Cutlass and Cudgel by George Manville Fenn]@TWC D-Link bookCutlass and Cudgel CHAPTER THIRTY NINE 2/17
So long as they come out and fight fair, I don't care what they do.
Here, four of you stop here; Dick, take command.
We'll go forward and turn the enemy, and try to take them in the rear.
Stand fast if they come at you; no pistols, but use your cutlasses.
We shall come up to you at the least sound, to help." The men uttered a low, "Ay, ay, sir," speaking as if they were oppressed by the darkness, and the master whispered. "Now, my lad," he said, "try and give us the shape of the place like." Archy obeyed, and explained where the smugglers' stores lay, and the pile of little kegs, if they had not been moved, the place where he had slept, and the positions of the huge pillars and heaps of broken stones. "And you was shut up here all that time, and didn't go mad!" said Gurr. "Well, you are a wonder! Tell you what, my lad, I should just like to make sure that those brandy kegs are still here, and then I think we'll be off, and come back with lights.
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