"You can't kill ol' Wilson," Red... "You can't kill ol' Wilson," Red mutteredGallagher looked away"Come on, let's get going
They started out, progressing slowly and carefully over the hills back to the hollow where they had left the rest of the platoonIt was hard labor, and they took frequent rests, alternating the guard for the litter-bearers
Wilson gained consciousness slowly, muttering incoherently for minutes at a timeHe seemed awake for almost a minute, but he recognized none of them
"Doko koko cola," he muttered several times, giggling feebly
They stopped, wiped the blood from his mouth, and then set out againIt took them more than an hour to reach the platoon, and they were very tired when they got
black chanel handbags thereThey laid Wilson down, slipped him off the stretcher, and flopped on the ground to restThe other men gathered about them nervously, asking questions, mildly jubilant that Wilson had been found, but they were too weary to talk much"Goddam it, you men, stop standing around with your finger in your ass They looked at him in bewilderment
"Minetta and Polack and Wyman andRoth, git over there in that grove, and cut two poles about six feet long, and about two inches in diameter, and bring back a couple of struts about eighteen inches wide?"
"What for?" Minetta asked
"What the hell do you think it's for? For a stretcherNow git goin', you men
Muttering, they picked up a couple of
chanel necklace machetes, and filed out of the hollow to the groveIn a minute or so, the platoon could hear them hacking away at the treesCroft spat disgustedly"Them men are enough to frost your nuts There was a restless titterWilson, unconscious now, lay in the center of the hollow, very stillDespite themselves, they all kept looking at him
Hearn had joined Croft, and after talking for a moment or two, they called Brown and Stanley and Martinez over to themIt was about four o'clock in the afternoon, and the sun was still hotCroft, afraid of becoming sunburned, pulled the rifles out of his shirt sleeves, flapped it a few times, and put it onHe grimaced at the bloodstains on it, and then began to
black chanel tote talk"The Lootenant thinks that all the noncoms ought to talk this over now He mentioned this flatly as if to convey that the idea had not come from him"We're gonna send some men back with Wilson, an' I think we ought to figure out who we don't want
"How many you sending with him, Lootenant?" Brown asked
Hearn hadn't thought about that until nowHow many would it be? He shrugged, trying to remember the number of men specified in the manual"Oh, I think six will about do it," he said
Croft shook his head, made an abrupt decision"We ain't gonna be able to spare six, Lootenant, we'll have to make it four"It's gonna be a sonofabitch with four men
"Yeah, four men, not so good," Martinez
omega deville watch said sarcasticallyHe knew he would not be chosen as one of the litter-bearers, and this once it made him bitterHis nerves were still taut from the ambushHe knew Brown would maneuver himself into going back with Wilson, while he would have to go ahead with the platoon"You're right, Sergeant, we can spare only four litter-bearers His voice was easy, forceful, as if he had been commanding them for a long time"We never can tell when some other man jack is going to get hit, and we'll need bearers for him
This was the wrong thing to sayThey all looked glum, and their mouths tightened"Goddammit," Brown blurted out, "we been pretty lucky up to now this campaignOutside of Hennessey and
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