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I crept on to investigate and found the sniper looking quite disappointed. "Missed the blighter!" he said. Then he told me that it wasn't a good place for a sniper's nest at all. For one thing, it was too far back, nearly a half-mile from the German trenches.
"So we're shut in?" "I'm afraid so. I wish to goodness," said the young man, "I knew French well. I'd curse him with some vim and not a little animation, the chump! I wonder what 'blighter' is in French," he said, meditating. "It's the merest suggestion," said Sally, "but oughtn't we to do something?" "What could we do?" "Well, for one thing, we might all utter a loud yell.
I heard the dinghy splash overboard ere I could cry "Murder!" Heard the rasp of a boat-hook along the wire-rope, and then, as it had been in my ear, Pyecroft's enormous and jubilant bellow astern: "Why, he's here! Right atop of us! The blighter 'as pouched half the tow, like a shark!" A long pause filled with soft Devonian bleatings. Then Pyecroft, solo arpeggie: "Rum? Rum? Rum? Is that all?
"Thank you, sir." Twenty shillings, ten pence. "Doesn't Jameson take his peg a little too often, sir?" "He's a blighter. Glad to get rid of him. Hurry back. And don't stop at Mike's or Johnny's," smiling. "I never touch anything heavier than ale, sir." Mike's or Johnny's; it saved him the trouble of asking. Tippling pubs where stewards foregathered. His uniform was his passport.
The blighter came round this morning the master, you know; when he saw my drawing he just raised his eyebrows and walked on." Strickland chuckled. He did not seem discouraged. He was independent of the opinion of his fellows. And it was just that which had most disconcerted me in my dealings with him.
"'E wasn't goin' to give hup 'is chawnce at the bleedin' myte, not 'im! 'E 'ad a score to settle with that blighter, so 'e 'ad. The Nigger could 'arve the bloomin' second myte, that's wot." Nigger was so incensed he got up and left the foc'sle, leaving the last word to the spy.
Something drove me to do it; but all the same I'm sorry now it's done not for him but myself. I shall clear to-night, with luck, for France. If I can send an address later I will. Look after Jenny she's well rid of the blighter. When things have blown over I may come back. Tell Albert and tell Flo. Yours, Brendon examined the letter and the envelope that contained it.
Kept mixing up sacred tunes and comic songs: 'Rock of Ages, 'Bill Bailey, 'Cujus Animal, and 'Over the Garden Wall. And when I tried to move him on, that little blighter of a monkey made a run at my leg; and then the man grinned and started playing, 'Wait till the Clouds roll by. I tell you, it was fair sickening."
No one can call me an unreasonable chappie, and many's the time I've given in like a lamb when Jeeves has voted against one of my pet suits or ties; but when it comes to a valet's staking out a claim on your upper lip you've simply got to have a bit of the good old bulldog pluck and defy the blighter. "He said that he would call again later, sir." "Something must be up, Jeeves." "Yes, sir."
As sure as there was a blighter at a picnic I had to swing her, and feed her, and drive her home. And all the time I was mad after all the things you've got poetry and music and all the joy-forever business. So there were the pair of us my face and my imagination chained together, and fighting, and hating each other like poison. "Then your mother came along and took pity on me.
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