Charles Beadle

Name: The Blond Spiders — Chapter 8
Author: Charles Beadle

The Blond Spiders — Chapter 8 (1924)

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“The Blond Spiders — Chapter 8”, published in 1924, is a work by Charles Beadle. It explores elements such as Plessons, Tony and von Muhlhauser's.

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Charles Beadle, The Blond Spiders — Chapter 8 (1924)

“ Then just as the foremost of the charging soldiers butted foolishly together in the doorway and were shot and clubbed, there rose above a hoo-hooing which resembled a rising gale at sea an indubitable American voice, yelling:
“Attaboy! Get ’em, you black ——s!”
Guns crashed amid red flames in the doorway against agitated black figures silhouetted by the moon-greened western sky. Forms plunged forward into the room beneath Tony’s rifle butt. Sweat blinded his eyes.
He struck empty air; heard Sawyer’s revolver crash behind him and Plessons swear. ”

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Charles Beadle, The Blond Spiders — Chapter 8 (1924)

“ Seizing two legs, Tony tried to overturn it, but the legs would not budge for they were set in the ground, the table top being merely laid upon four posts; so, yelling to Sawyer to grab his end, they ran it through the door, where luckily it fell up side down on the wreckage of the lamp, partially extinguishing the flames, just as Plessons, firing from the end window, dropped two of the soldiers rushing up in the moonlight. Then as Tony joined in from the door, sending another man to earth, the others turned about and with oaths and yells made for shelter. ”

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Charles Beadle, The Blond Spiders — Chapter 8 (1924)

“ A revolver muzzle in the pit of the stomach quieted the guttural spitting sergeant, and he allowed himself to be tied. In the mean time several more fusillades had whistled through, and smacked against, the hut.
“Quick! Take that window, Sawyer, and cut out that sob stuff. Here’s a gat. Watch they don’t rush the door, Plessons, and I’ll stir up the All Highest.”
He turned just in time. As the Kommandant was crawling through the door Tony leaped, seized him by the leg, dragged him back like a pig without the squeals, and poked a revolver against his ear. ”

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Charles Beadle, The Blond Spiders — Chapter 8 (1924)

“ Now, sergeant, your Kommandant isn’t talking just now——”
“Sergeant,” came von Muhlhauser’s voice in German, giving Tony the lie, “tell Herr Oberleutnant that he is to consider us dead and to charge, putting each of these men to to the sword instantly—no matter what the cost, for this valley must be saved for the Fatherland. D’you hear?” ”

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Charles Beadle, The Blond Spiders — Chapter 8 (1924)

“ Then his left arm sagged; he found himself leaning gasping against the doorpost and was conscious that the night was filled with a strange, hoarse screaming.
Intermittent flashes of guns came from small groups, about which black gnomes leaped in a fantastic dance, flourishing flat things that flashed dully in the moonlight. ”

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Charles Beadle, The Blond Spiders — Chapter 8 (1924)

“ You gan not shoot prisoners. I haf been in America.”
“Cripes!” muttered Plessons. “Ain’t he saucy?”
“Shouldn’t talk so much about that, Fritz,” retorted Tony. “And this isn’t war anyway. You’re just bandits. This isn’t your territory, and you attacked us and shot one of our men without provocation. Also you’ve got another American here. Now come across if you know so darned much about the States.”
Came a pause and the hum of voices disputing, the while the hoo-hooing continued. ”

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Charles Beadle, The Blond Spiders — Chapter 8 (1924)

“ Understand?”
“Ja,” answered the sergeant; “but I gan not do dat until the Herr Kommandant gommand me.”
“Oh yer won’t, won’t yer——”
“For ——’s sake, shut up!” exclaimed Tony furiously. “You’re worse than a hysterical old woman. Keep your mouth shut until you’re told to speak.”
“What’re yer giving us? Ain’t I——”
“Plessons, put a bullet through that fool if he butts in again. ”

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Charles Beadle, The Blond Spiders — Chapter 8 (1924)

“ The strange hoo-hooing continued.
“Yes,” agreed Plessons, “they didn’t cave in like some of ’em do.”
“Prussians, shouldn’t wonder. They’re mean, but they aren’t white-livered. Listen! Guess some officer or non-com’s pulling ’em together. But I bet we’ve got ’em puzzled. They’ll know who it is, but probably won’t know how many. Sawyer, drag out the professor and let’s have a look at him. That’s it.”
“Help! Help!” promptly yelled the Doktor in German at full-lung pressure.
“Heh,” growled Sawyer, “shut yer head, will yer?”
“Let him be,” said Tony. ”

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