"
The general smiled grimly.
"Think I shall have all my staff officers do the same," he
commented. Then more seriously: "Can you lead us to the house?"
"I'm not sure about the house; but I can take you to the stone
wall from which I jumped. That ought to guide us to the house."
"Right," said the general.
He called another member of his staff and gave a few brief
orders.
In another ten minutes two launches loaded with regulars and
armed with a rapid-fire gun in each, steamed swiftly up the
harbor.
"There's the wall!" exclaimed Donald a few minutes later, "and
there's where I jumped," pointing to a spot near the abutment.
The officer in command headed the boats for the shore.
"It is not only a question of freeing Lieut. Grimes," said the
officer, "but we also want to capture the conspirators. This is
a much more serious matter than Gen. Funston is willing to
admit."
"Then if you will take my suggestion, sir," said Donald modestly,
"I would let a few soldiers go over the wall as well as entering
the front of the house."
The officer looked up twenty feet. The wall was absolutely
perpendicular and as smooth as the side of a house.
"I'm afraid none of my men can scale it," he said.
"Can't we throw a grapnel over it, sir?"
"We might; but it would be a very slight hold.
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