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"Then it has appeared before?" "Yes, it has," was the reply. "But you said nothing of it," exclaimed Captain Hazzard. "No; I thought it might be imagination. It appeared for such a short time that I could not be certain if it was not a trick of the imagination." "Well, it begins to look as if Rastus is telling the truth," was the officer's comment.
"I found this cap," he said gravely, "on Monday, September 7th, in a house near La Ferté. We stopped there for four hours while the artillery were in action. We saw a broken motor bicycle outside a house to which the people pointed. We went in. We found one of our despatch-riders with an officer's sword sticking in him.
Although the latter was on horseback and the former on fact, his tall figure was almost on a level with the officer's head. He spoke a few low words, the captain started, and, quickly raising his head, he surveyed the gigantic chief from head to foot. He then conferred with him a few moments, after which he addressed himself in a very embarrassed manner to Eugene.
I was with one of my section caught while out scouting, and have got away in Boer attire, and as we were riding in we met this officer's party some five miles out, and not unnaturally they took us for the real thing instead of masqueraders." "I can assure you that King is all right," the sailor said. "He came up in the train with three of his party from Durban."
"I wish I could offer you something stronger, but I'm not much of a drinker myself, so I don't usually take advantage of the officer's prerogative to smuggle liquor aboard," he said as he handed her the cup. She smiled up at him. "That's all right; I rarely drink, and when I do, it's either wine or a very diluted highball. Right now, this coffee will do me more good."
The day after the close of the conference he definitely announced to Umu his intention to abdicate and quit the valley; at the same time asking that officer's advice as to the best and most desirable mode of procedure in so exceedingly delicate a business. "The affair can be arranged quite easily, Lord," answered Umu. "There is not the slightest need for you to abandon us.
She had the presence of mind to snatch up her belligerent favourite, who was snapping at the prostrate officer's legs; and then, for the first time in her life, an overwhelming shyness descended upon her as the full horror of her position presented itself. "I couldn't help it, Bertie! Oh, Bertie, I'm so sorry!" she exclaimed, in an agony of contrition.
"Give way to my sister," said Louise, in a beseeching voice; and Eva was ready, let down her long brown hair, and allowed Sophie to arrange the drapery. Otto must put on an officer's uniform. He presented himself to the sisters. "That gold is not sewn fast on the collar," said Sophie, and undertook to rectify it. He could easily keep the uniform on whilst she did this, said she.
This preference of the man of steel so irritated his huge rival, that he determined to pass some insult upon him. He accordingly found a more compassionate lady as his partner; and, no sooner had the dance commenced, than he took the first opportunity which presented itself of treading, with all his weight, on the little officer's toes. In dancing down a second time, he played him the same trick.
His intellect once more retreated from him into some distant place and left him murmuring: "Beauty demands all, beauty demands all. Yes, yes! Sacrifice! Sacrifice! Isn't it so?" He tugged at his large moustache, with an abrupt assumption of the cavalry officer's manner, which he doubtless deemed to be in accordance with his momentary muddle-headedness.
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