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So low were they that all men with rifles the infantry in their trenches, the A.S.C. drivers from their dumps, the transport men from their horse-lines were firing a rapid-fire at the aeroplanes and waiting to see them fall. "Cheeky brutes!" I shouted, and, observing that our batmen were hastily loading their rifles, ran for my revolver, determined to fire something into the air.
Daisy was growing to be almost as lovely as Stevie had been; and though she did not suggest Daisy Jasper, the name always recalled her dear friend. And Stevie was quite a big boy. He was getting some rough ways, too, and wanted to drive Hanny about for a horse, just as he did papa. Great-grandmother Van Kortland had knit him some beautiful horse-lines. And Annie was such a sweet little thing!
A great camp spread out under ancient trees bonfires glowing everywhere, and native followers squatted around them, long, whinnying horse-lines elephants, great gurgling shadows, swaying at their pickets shouting, laughter, music, and, over all, soft purple darkness and the stars. For it was something more than a mere polo tournament that they were traveling to.
I could see the roads running to the passes, and the smoke of camps and horse-lines right under the cliffs. I had learned what I needed. We were in the outbuildings of a big country house two or three miles south of the city. The nearest point of the Russian front was somewhere in the foothills of the Palantuken.
Later in the morning they moved to the site of the camp to be, about a mile away. It was a wind-smoothed stretch of untouched desert, but speedily horse-lines and white tents broke its vastness. That night Mac, doing his turn of horse-picket while the tired camp slept, walked out a little way into the silver moonlit desert.
On the second floor the back of the large rectangular mirror on the dressing-table presented a flat and wooden negative to his anxious curiosity. In the neighbourhood of Wimbledon the taxi-driver ascertained his destination at the first inquiry from a strolling soldier. It was the Blue Lion public-house. The taxi skirted the Common, parts of which were covered with horse-lines and tents.
It took Peggy quite a month to appreciate the meaning of the mobilization of Major Fox, R.F.A. A brigade of Territorial artillery flowed over Durdlebury, and the sacred and sleepy meadows became a mass of guns and horse-lines and men in khaki, and waggons and dingy canvas tents and the old quiet streets were thick with unaccustomed soldiery.
By this device horse-lines are cleaned. "Listen to one little thing. The women of Franceville also keep the accounts and the bills. They make one price for everything. No second price is to be obtained by any talking. They cannot be cheated over the value of one grain. Yet of their own will they are generous beyond belief.
If our inquiring friends had sailed down the Canal in 1915 they would have seen at Kantara had they noticed the place at all, which is unlikely a cluster of tents, a few rows of horse-lines, some camels, a white-walled mosque, and a water-tank close to the water's edge; while their nostrils would have been pungently assailed by the acrid smell of burning camel-dung.
They ate the head-ropes that fastened them to the horse-lines, and the incensed picket spent half the night chasing them and tying them up again with what was left of the rope. Fortunately we obtained chains at railhead, and as these were uneatable they turned their attention to the horse-blankets and ate them! Soon it was impossible to "rug-up" at night, for there was not enough rug left.
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