"He is a usurper!"
Fig. 56.—Lieut. Heady and the Pixie Parson Among Admiring Pixinees.
"He wants to be chief himself!"
"He has made way with the other officers so that he may seize the command!"
"Down with him! Death to the tyrant!"
"Death! Death! Death!"
The whole seditious element of the garrison gathered together, and moved in a solid mass upon Heady and his little band of aids, who had fallen back toward the tower that united the two main quarters of the fort.
"Aha!" said he, "is it that you are after? Very good, my brave boys! There are two who can play the game of death, as you shall learn!"