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"I'd much sooner be smoking a quiet pipe in my own quarters but I see we 'ave the Old Brigade on our 'ands this afternoon. If I only 'ad you regular, Muster Corkran," said he, dressing the line. "You've had me for nearly six weeks, you old glutton. Number off from the right!" "Not quite so previous, please. I'm taking this drill. Left, half turn! Slow march."
But you must remember that nobody except Ferlini and a few superstitious blacks ever believed that the mountain had a secret. Incredulity has protected it. And Corkran had to work like a thousand devils if he hoped to get hold of anything before he was found out. I believe he has got hold of something, and that it then got hold of him. But we shall see." "Yes, we shall see," I repeated.
I might separate them." "You might, of course; but they have gone up the school together for six years. I shouldn't care to do it," said Macrae. "They use the editorial 'we," said King, irrelevantly. "It annoys me. 'Where's your prose, Corkran? 'Well, sir, we haven't quite done it yet. 'We'll bring it in a minute, and so on. And the same with the others."
Wire Kabushia Lark. His loyalty to us shamed me. We had not given him the benefit of the doubt, but had at once believed the worst. He, though "not a gentleman" in the opinion of Colonel Corkran and some others, was chivalrously sure that we had "not gone ahead of the bargain!"
Already the ship was beginning to move out of the Greek harbour, or I should have been tempted to get a telegram calling me home. Even the Mountain of the Golden Pyramid seemed not too great a sacrifice to make but it was too late to make it and some one was knocking at my door. I opened it with such courage as I had; and the instant I set eyes on the man I knew that he was Colonel Corkran.
I didn't know then that it was you he was talkin' about. Crafty young animal. Freckled chap with eyes -Corkran, I think his name is." "Oh, I know him, thank you," said the Head, and reflectively. "Ye-es, I should have included them even if I hadn't seen 'em." "If the old Coll. weren't a little above themselves already, we'd chair you down the corridor," said the Engineer.
And while he flayed and rent and blistered, and wiped the floor with them, and while they looked for hiding-places and found none on that floor, I remembered the up-ending of 'Dolly' Macshane at Dalhousie, which came perilously near a court-martial on Second-Lieutenant Corkran; the burning of Captain Parmilee's mosquito-curtains on a hot Indian dawn, when the captain slept in his garden, and Lieutenant Corkran, smoking, rode by after a successful whist night at the club; the introduction of an ekka pony, with ekka attached, into a brother captain's tent on a frosty night in Peshawur, and the removal of tent, pole, cot, and captain all wrapped in chilly canvas; the bath that was given to Elliot-Hacker on his own verandah his lady-love saw it and broke off the engagement, which was what the Mess intended, she being an Eurasian and the powdering all over of Elliot-Hacker with flour and turmeric from the bazaar.
"He's trying to ask for something to eat or drink," said Fenton. "What a confounded fool I am! I've nothing, not even a flask. Have you?" "No. I'll go back at once and get something," I answered. Strange, but I was not in the least angry with Corkran, whom I had been execrating. Perhaps this was partly because the impression that the djinns had sole rights here was growing stronger every moment.
I answered at random and longed for the meal to end until I remembered my lecture. Then I wished that dinner might go on indefinitely like the tea party of the Mad Hatter. "The rule for conductor's dinner speech is, rise with the raisins! Hope you won't find your lecture too hard a nut to crack. Yours sympathetically, Corkran. Bang on the table to make them stop gabbling. Or shall I do it for you?
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