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"In Scotland, Central Australia, and North-Eastern Rhodesia and the North- West Indian front." "What's your service?" "Four years. I'll have to go in a year. I got in when I was twenty-two by a fluke from the Militia direct on Trials." "Trials like those we just saw?" "Not so severe. There was less competition then. I hoped to get my stripes, but there's no chance." "Why?"
Then there had been weeks of a wurra wurra of hopes and fears and little stratagems which as often as not proved injudicious, and then somehow or other in the end, there lay the young man bound and with an arrow through his heart at her daughter's feet. It seemed to her to be all a fluke which she could have little or no hope of repeating.
Between ourselves the cut was a fluke, but the half-volley was a genuine well-played hit, which deserved the applause it got. The next ball came straight for the middle stump, but was blocked back half-way between the creases, and another run was stolen. "Over!" The new bowler went in for slows.
Apparently the same strikingly original idea had occurred to Lance; and by the merest fluke they found one another out. To Roy's relief, Lance greeted the embarrassing discovery with a gust of laughter. "I say this won't do. You give over. It's too much of a joke. Besides cheek on your part." Though he spoke lightly, the hint of command in his tone promptly put Roy on the defensive. "Rot!
He understood that, by some fluke of fate, life still remained in him; that, in some way he never could discover, he had been cast upon a ledge of rock there in the cataract a ledge over which spray and foam hurled, seething, yet a ledge which, parting the gigantic flood, offered a chance of temporary safety.
"I am glad this fellow Hawke, whom you say has been dropped, is now on his way back to India," said Simpson. "Yes, but he might show up here devilish strangely," mused Hardwicke. "He is just the fellow for a dirty fluke. Watch over Nadine, Simpson," cried Hardwicke, "for I've sworn to make her my wife, within three months, uncle or no uncle!" "I will," growled Simpson.
By degrees, they came all to notice this; and I found that they thought me out of my senses, and many a trick was played off upon old Noah, for that was the name the sailors gave me. "Well, this evening, as I was saying, I sat upon the fluke of the anchor, waiting for a chance boat to put me aboard.
The weather was fine, and Owen walked backwards and forwards every day with Mr Fluke. One day a box arrived marked private, and addressed to S. Fluke, Esquire. On glancing at the contents, Mr Fluke had it again closed, and that evening he went away earlier than usual, a porter carrying the box to the nearest coach-stand.
This had not fluke enough to lay fast hold and bring the vessel up; for in that case it would have been immediately discovered; but it dragged along the bottom like a trawl, and by its weight, and a hitch every now and then in some hole, it hampered quite sufficiently the objectionable voyage.
Mr Neeld nodded. He had sympathy with these opinions. "But if it's true, why, who's Harry Tristram? Oh, I know it's all a fluke, a damned fluke, if you like, Neeld, and uncommonly hard on the boy. But the law's the law, and for my own part I'm not in favor of altering it. Now do you suppose I want my daughter to marry him, if it's true?" "I suppose you wouldn't," murmured Neeld.
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