| “Then Colonel Liscum fell to rise no more” | [ Frontispiece] |
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| “‘You’ll be all right if you’ll only stand up’” | [ 45] |
| “Nuggy Polk was making off down the dim passageway” | [ 98] |
| “The yellow man was on the point of blazing away at Gilbert’s ear” | [ 145] |
| “‘See anything unusual?’” he asked | [ 180] |
| “The Boxer kicked the prostrate officer in the side” | [ 230] |
| “It was now a hand-to-hand contest” | [ 271] |
| “‘I’ll save him anyway,’ he thought” | [ 308] |
ON TO PEKIN
CHAPTER I
INTRODUCING THE YOUNG LIEUTENANT
“I say, Lieutenant Pennington, have you heard the news?”
“That depends upon what the news is, major. Do you mean that we are ordered back to Manila?”
“I mean a good deal more than that, lieutenant. We are ordered to China.”
“China!” And Lieutenant Gilbert Pennington, formerly of the volunteers and now of the regulars stationed on the island of Luzon, leaped up from the camp stool upon which he had been sitting, and gazed at his old friend, Major Morris, as if he had not heard aright. “Who told you such a fairy tale as that?”
“It’s the truth, Pennington. I got it direct from the colonel. We are to proceed to Manila without delay, and there take the Logan or some other transport direct for China.”
“And what are we going to do in China? Has Uncle Sam declared war on the heathen?”