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You ought to be able to tell what it is makes a feller go crazy like that.... Ah guess Ah got a bit o' the devil in me." Andrews was brushing the soft silk of a poppy petal against his face. "I wonder if it'ld have any effect if I ate some of these," he said. "Why?" "They say you go to sleep if you lie down in a poppy-field.
"It'ld be hard lines, pardner, ef I should hev to eat you, after all!" he muttered, with a twisted kind of grin. "We're both of us in a hole, sure enough, an' I'll play fair as long as I kin!" As he mused, a great shadow passed over his head, and looking up, he saw one of the eagles hovering low above the ledge.
"Let's go and have a drink an' then come back," said Fuselli. They went to the cafe where Marie of the white arms presided. Fuselli paid for two hot rum punches. "You see it's this way, Sarge," he said confidentially, "I wrote all my folks at home I'd been made corporal, an' it'ld be a hell of a note to be let down now." The top sergeant was drinking his hot drink in little sips.
He shot the juice into her an' went off like a bat out of hell an' there was a hell of a lot of traffic on the road because there was some damn-fool attack or other goin' on. So I got up to Paris.... An' then it'ld all have been fine if I hadn't met up with a Jane I knew.
The darkness seemed to press in upon his eyeballs, blinding him. Suddenly he noticed voices near him. Two men were talking. "I ain't never seen the sea before this, I didn't know it was like this." "We're in the zone, now." "That means we may go down any minute." "Yare." "Christ, how black it is.... It'ld be awful to drown in the dark like this." "It'ld be over soon."
He thrust them out indignantly for her inspection. Laura looked at them with a professional air. "I don't call it a bad hand. I expect you've no patience." "Haven't I! I tell you I'd play all day, if it'ld do any good but it won't." "And how about the poor farm?" said Laura, with a lifted brow. "Oh! the farm the farm dang the farm!" said Mason violently, slapping his knee.
About that time the captains start wantin' to go to Paris, an' we said we'd take 'em, an' so we put all the gas in my car an' the four of us climbed on that goddam chassis an' off we went like a bat out of hell! It'ld all have been fine if I wasn't lookin' cross-eyed.... We piled up in about two minutes on one of those nice little stone piles an' there we were.
"Well, so was I. I doan think nauthin o' them guys that are so stuck up 'cause they enlisted, d'you?" "Not a hell of a lot." "Don't yer?" came a voice from the other side of Andrews, a thin voice that stuttered. "W-w-well, all I can say is, it'ld have sss-spoiled my business if I hadn't enlisted. No, sir, nobody can say I didn't enlist." "Well, that's your look-out," said Applebaum.
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