"
The turnback leaped quickly to obey. This gave him the coveted
chance to get away by himself, where he could secretly remove
from his boot the little black pin that had been responsible for
this excitement.
Surgeon and hospital men came on the run. The surgeon declined
to make an examination there, but directed his men to lift the
injured cadet to the stretcher and take him to the hospital.
In the meantime some enlisted men had caught and quieted Satan,
leading him from the tanbark.
"That brute never will be used again, if I have my way," muttered
Captain Albutt, loudly enough to be heard by most of the cadets of
the squad.
Then the drill proceeded as though nothing had happened.
"I fixed my man that time, and easily enough," growled Haynes to
himself. "He's out of the service, from now on. He can nurse
a weak back the rest of his days."
When the drill was dismissed a party of three ladies, who had
seen the whole scene from one of the iron balconies, came down
to meet the cavalry officer.
"Your conduct was just splendid, captain, cried one of the women,
her face glowing. But I feared you would be killed, or at least
badly hurt, when you put yourself in the way of that somersaulting
cadet.
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