The Kopje Garrison. George Manville Fenn
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George Manville Fenn
The Kopje Garrison
A Story of the Boer War
Published by Good Press, 2019
EAN 4064066209971
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Chapter Two.
What they caught.
“Serve him right!” Dickenson growled more than spoke. “There’s another chap creeping away yonder so as to enfilade us from the left.”
“Well, you know what to do,” said Lennox grimly.
Dickenson uttered a grunt, and, paying no further heed to the bullets that kept on spattering about the rocks, every now and then striking up a shower of loose stones, waited, patiently watching a spot that he had marked down a couple of hundred yards away up the river to his left. For he had seen one of the most pertinacious of their aggressors draw back, apparently without reason.
“He couldn’t have known that I meant to pick him out for my next shot,” the young officer said to himself, “and he couldn’t have been hurt, so he’s up to the same sort of game as that fellow old Lennox brought down.”
He turned his head sharply, not on account of a bullet coming too close, but