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"Two more Martinis an' another plain soda, please, Bobby." The First Lieutenant laughed. "Who's the soda water for me?" Mouldy shook his head lugubriously. "No," he replied, "me. There was another bird there this morning being lushed up to a bar to his D.S.O. an R.N.R. Lieutenant called Gedge. What you'd call a broth of a boy. We had lunch together afterwards."
The enemy fought stubbornly, in the village; but were driven out with only some half-dozen casualties on our part. Thirty sheep were found in the village, and they were a Godsend, indeed, to the troops. As in every other place, too, numbers of Lee-Metfords, Martinis, and Sniders were found. Treda was burnt by the rear guard.
Everybody thought you were her pet weakness. We used to envy your soft snap. Did you get the go-by altogether?" "Pretty near. Got a little something, but it was precious little." "Can you pull through on it?" "'Twill be a devilish hard pull." "Too bad, old man. But cheer up! You'll come out on top. Have another one of these things?" "All right." More Martinis were ordered.
So he marches with the Chief to a great big plain on the top of a mountain, and the Chief's men rushes into a village and takes it; we three Martinis firing into the brown of the enemy. So we took that village too, and I gives the Chief a rag from my coat, and says, 'Occupy till I come; which was scriptural.
"I stayed in Ghorband a month, and gave the Governor there the pick of my baskets for hush-money, and bribed the Colonel of the regiment some more, and, between the two and the tribespeople, we got more than a hundred hand-made Martinis, a hundred good Kohat Jezails that'll throw to six hundred yards, and forty man-loads of very bad ammunition for the rifles.
Did that too come from those cursed dry Martinis? Impossible to be sure for the moment. He found himself wondering whether teetotallers knew more about their souls than moderate drinkers, or less. But the odd sense of romance persisted when the effect of the dry Martinis must certainly have worn off. It was something such as Craven had never known, or even imagined before.
Clifford made no direct answer, only asked a question: "How long will it take to get the guns and ammunition, and what will they cost?" "About a week from Wakkerstroom," replied Meyer. "Old Potgieter, the trader there, has just imported a hundred Martinis and a hundred Westley-Richards falling-blocks.
These were soldiers of the Undi regiment, the same that had turned the Isandhlwana mountain, cutting off all possibility of retreat by the waggon road, who, when they knew that the camp was taken, had advanced to destroy the guard of Rorke's Drift. On they came, to be met presently by a terrible and concentrated fire from the Martinis.
And with a Bolshevik, a Turkish refugee from Smyrna too!" "There were the Georgians for chaperons." "Georgians!" said Braybrooke, with almost sharp vivacity. "I really hate that word. We are all subjects of King George. No one has a right to claim a monopoly of the present reign. I waiter, bring me two more dry Martinis, please." "Yes, sir." "What was I saying?
The howling, leaping crew swerved away to the right, and dashed on into the gap which had already been made for them. But C Company had drawn no trigger to stop that fiery rush. The men leaned moodily upon their Martinis. Some had even thrown them upon the ground. Conolly was talking fiercely to those about him.
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