The Boy Allies in the Balkan Campaign - The Struggle to Save a Nation by Clair W. (Clair Wallace) Hayes
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Taken wholly off his guard, Stubbs stuttered and stammered. "You will come?" Nikol repeated again. "Ye-e-s, I'll come," Stubbs articulated at last. Nikol wasted no further time in words, but moved forward perhaps a hundred yards. Then he halted and stood still, waiting. The sound of footsteps drew nearer and still nearer, and then suddenly Nikol sprang forward, silently and swiftly. There came a sudden startled cry from ahead and then a great, boisterous laugh. "Ho! Ho!" exclaimed a voice in French. "Look what has attacked Ivan Vergoff." For some reason that he could not explain, Hal left his place of concealment and moved toward the combatants. The others followed him. "Ho! Ho!" came the great voice again. "Ivan Vergoff, the greatest of the Cossacks, attacked by this puny pygmy." Hal had now approached close enough to see the gigantic figure of Nikol's antagonist and to witness the struggle. The giant had stooped over and seized Nikol by one arm. He pulled, but the dwarf, his feet firmly planted on the ground, did not budge. It was a |
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