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His next deputation ought to be sent, after vanquishing the "blarsted" Gothamites, to the recesses of the Alleghany, and pitted there against the woodsman with his ancient weapon carrying a round ball of seventy-five to the pound, five feet long and decorated with tin sights, double trigger and mayhap flint-lock.
Denton realised that there must exist motives beyond a mere impulse to abominable proceedings in the man. He meditated, and swallowed an unworthy pride. "I did not mean to be offensive to you," he said, "in refusing that bit of bread." "Meant it friendly," said the swart man, recalling the scene; "but in front of that blarsted Whitey and his snigger Well I 'ad to scrap."
Then the door slammed; the modern prototype of the "roaring girl" vanished, and another voice hoarse, that of a man was heard: "The blarsted fog is coming down fast." For some time the two men in the little back room sat silent; then one of them leaned over: "She might have asked you that question, eh, Joe?" The speaker's eyes had turned again to the picture.
And I have to give that blarsted letter to one of the best chaps that I ever met. And I don't like doing it, Tom Craig, I don't like doing it." "Why don't you post it?" "Because I can't. Didn't I tell you I'm going off to see him now?
Fritz adopted a nasty habit in the form of lobbing over from fifteen miles away a new type of heavy shell, apparently under experimental observation. One fell among the Guernsey cookers, tearing a chunk cut of Sergt. Grouser he had not been with the Battalion long found vent for his feelings. "Ain't got any blarsted sense, them Germans aint.
'Johanna must have misunderstood me, or else I've got the wrong Dutch word for these blarsted days of the week. I told Johanna I'd be out on Friday. The woman's a fool. Oah, da-am it all! he says. 'I wouldn't have sold old Van Zyl a pup like that, he says. 'I'll hunt him up and apologise.
Twelve months without a ship, and this hateful, God-forsaken island turning into a pest-house. 'Wasa is pesta-house, Tom? 'Place where they put people in to die lazzaretto, charnel-house, morgue, living grave! Oh, go away, girl, go to the blarsted church if you want to, and leave me alone. Her slender fingers touched his hand timidly. 'I don' wan' go to church, Tom.
"'Cos 'e'd look at you that's why not," replied Stott, "and you can't no more face 'im than a dog can face a man. I shan't stand it much longer." "Curious," I said, "very curious." "Oh! he's a blarsted freak, that's what 'e is," said Stott, getting to his feet and beginning to pace moodily up and down. I did not interrupt him.
He ceased to crouch; he sprawled upon the grass and clenched an impotent fist. "This war," he cried, "this blarsted foolery of a war. "O Kurt! Lieutenant Kurt! "I done," he said, "I done. I've 'ad all I want, and more than I want. The world's all rot, and there ain't no sense in it. The night's coming.... If 'E comes after me 'E can't come after me 'E can't!...
"Shan't never see 'im again," he murmured, "thank Gawd!" He undressed quietly, blew out the lamp and got between the sheets of his improvised bed. For some minutes he stared at the leaping shadows on the ceiling. He was wondering why he had ever been afraid of the child. "After all, 'e's only a blarsted freak," was the last thought in his mind before he fell asleep.
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