Mike Vendetti
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 21 Jul
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But they could not guess what made him so suddenly start and run at speed toward the southward bluff, the direction of the traitor's corral and stables.
While Captain Dade whirled about and signaled Sergeant Crab of the cavalry left behind in charge of the few custodians of the troop barracks, Crab, too, threw dignity to the winds and ran at the beck of his superior officer.
Have you two men who can ride hard a dozen miles or so and carry out their orders?
was the captain's sharp demand.
Certainly, sir, answered Crab, professionally resentful that such questions should be asked of men of the cavalry.
Send two to report to me at once, mounted.
Never mind breakfast.
And by this time apparently the chief, the post commander, and possibly even the aide de camp had forgotten about the waiting coffee.
They still stood where they had halted in the center of the parade.
The doctor, coming from hospital, was signaled to and speedily joined them.
The bugle sounded, the men mechanically formed ranks and answered to their names, all the while watching from the corner of their eyes, the group of officers now increased by two infantry sublaterns, Lieutenants Bruce and Duncan.
who raised their caps to the preoccupied general, such salutation being then a fashion, not a regulation of the service, and stood silently awaiting instructions, for something of consequence was surely at hand.
Then the orderly again appeared, returning from his mission out of breath and speaking with difficulty.
Craps, I mean the Frenchman, sir, says it was after four, perhaps half past when they started, Pete drivin'.
He didn't see who was in it.
Twas the covered buckboard they took, sir.
The best one.
And then little by little it transpired that Hay, the post trader whom the general had need to see, had taken his departure by way of the Rollins Road, and without so much of a whisper of his purpose to anyone.
I knew he had thought of going, he told Major Webso, said Dave, presently, but that was before the outbreak assumed proportions.
He had given up all ideas of it yesterday, and so told me.
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