Stump electronic books

We
were in the light of the blazing shed, and they were in the dark, which
gave them a big advantage over us, and we couldn't spare the time to
attend to them. We tore up some rails and with them smashed in the door.
The men in the cars were screaming, so we knew which to take, and
fortunately they were the nearest to the door. We took our muskets--for
the frames of the cars were blazing, and the metal part too hot to
touch--and fixing bayonets, drove them into the woodwork and so pushed
the cars out. When we were outside, we used the rails again, to smash an
opening in the ends of the cars which were burning the least. We got the
men out unharmed, but pretty badly frightened."
"And were you not hurt?"
"We had eight wounded and a good many badly burned."
"And you?"
"I had my share of the burn."
"I wish you would tell me what you did--not what the others did."
Peter would have told her anything while she looked like that at him.
"I was in command at that point.


Pages:
450 451 452 453 454 455 456 457 458 459 460 461 462 463 464 465 466 467 468 469 470 471 472 473 474