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Here officers and privates were separated and registered, each as to command, rank, and state. The heavy gates swung open with a doleful noise. We marched in amid the shouts of the old prisoners, "fresh fish," "fresh fish." I wanted to fight right then and there. I did not want to be guyed. I wanted sympathy, not guying.
For the moment he fancied that he would jerk bodily from off his underpinning. "That must be the emergency-stop that Poney guyed me about," he gasped, as soon as he could think. "Hot-box-emergency-stop. They both hurt; but now I can talk back in the round-house." He was halted, all hissing hot, a few feet in the rear of what doctors would call a compound-comminuted car.
He did not put these thoughts into words; neither did he whisper them even in the ears of Podvine or Monteith the two men who understood him best and who guyed him the least especially Monteith, who never forgot that his college chum was his guest. He confided them instead to Monteith's big, red-faced foreman half Canadian, part French, and the rest of him Irish who was another source of wonder.
As the Inspector stepped inside the Police tent Cameron's attention was arrested by the sign "Hospital" upon a large double-roofed tent set on a wooden floor and guyed with more than ordinary care. "Wonder if old Martin is anywhere about," he said to himself as he rode across to the open door. "Is Dr. Martin in?" he enquired of a Chinaman, who appeared from a tent at the rear.
Only occasionally can the distant rumble of the guns be heard. A spell of dry weather had cracked the clay of the paths which divided it into rectangles. The grass was burnt and brown. The flower beds, in spite of diligent watering, looked parched. The great white tents, marquees guyed up with many ropes, shone with a blinding glare.
He had been made to take this office much against his will, and for a long time had the greatest difficulty in getting the "hang" of his instrument, so that his comrades guyed him most unmercifully over the strange medleys he used to bring forth when meaning to sound the various "calls."
It was first fixed in print in the "Cornhill Magazine", being my first appearance in a serial of any kind; and I have lived long enough to see it guyed most agreeably by Mr. Max Beerbohm in a volume of parodies entitled "A Christmas Garland," where I found myself in very good company. I was immensely gratified. I began to believe in my public existence. I have much to thank "The Lagoon" for.
Her swain moved a stick with a ragged bit of string dangling from the end, reproducing with strange fidelity the circular flourish of Swithin's whip, and rolled his head at his lady with a leer that had a weird likeness to Swithin's primeval stare. Though for a time unconscious of the lowly ruffian's presence, Swithin presently took it into his head that he was being guyed.
They passed my windows in Jermyn Street for three hours and a party of us sat inside and guyed the life out of them until one in the morning.
An' the more we guyed and the more we laughed, the more serious he got and the madder he grew. He said he was interpretin' the hidden meanin' of the lines." And so the Captain ran through that wild, fiery tale of fighting and loving, buccaneering and conspiring; mandolins tinkling, knives clicking; oaths mingling with sonnets, and spilled wine with spilled blood.
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