Norma took a deep breath. "I'm sorry," she said at last. "I'll try to give you what you want"
ONE:She raised her head and looked him full in the face, her eyes like a bright challenge. Her face was quite sober when she spoke. "I'm in Psych, but it's more than morale, Johnny. We'realways thinking up new ways to keep the little Alberts in their place. Put it that way. Though nobody's really come up with an improvement on the original notion."
TWO:"Roasted his neighbors instid o' his friends in a heathen sort of a way," continued Shorty."Si Klegg, go off and mind your own business, and let me attend to mine," yelled Shorty, struggling to free himself from his partner's iron grasp. "Am I goin' to be run over by every pin-feather snipe from West Point? I'll break him in two."
TWO:"Say, Alf, did you see me salt that feller that's bin yellin' and cussin' at me over there? He's cussin' now for something else. I think I got him right where he lived."The rumbling came again. Surely, he told himself, this was a new punishment, and it was death.
TWO:"If he's here to-morrer," said Shorty, looking at the animal carefully, "it'll be a miracle. That's too good a hoss to be kept in this camp by anybody lower'n a Brigadier-General. The boys'll steal him, the Captains take him, the Colonels seize him, and the Brigadier-Generals appropriate him for the Government's service. They'll call it by different names, but the horse goes all the same. I don't see how you're goin' to keep him till mornin'. You can't put him in your cellar. If they don't steal him, it's because it's too dark to see him. I'm sorry to say there's an awful lot o' thieves in the Army o' the Cumberland."
"Have you got them all aboard, Sergeant?" in quired Lieut. Bowersox."Sure," Dodd said dully. "I know. The rest of them say I shouldn't, but I think about you a lot. About all of you.""He called me a liar, and a stay-at-home sneak, and other insultin' things," protested he.
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THREE:As he passed the Building the ground shook again and there was a sudden rise in the chorus of screams. He smelled acrid smoke, but never thought of stopping: the Building still stood gleaming in the bombardment flashes, and he went round the corner, behind it, and found himself facing the dark masses of One and Two, five hundred feet away over open ground."I guess so," Albin said. "History's not my field. Butgiven the setup, what else could there be? What other choice have you got?"
THREE:The Deacon's first thought was for Si, and he bestirred himself to do what he thought his wife, who was renowned as a nurse, would do were she there.
