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A girl's reputation is certainly worth more than several hats and rain-coats, and I know she has not taken them." He walked from the dining-room and from the house in angry dignity, to the astonishment of his mother and sister, to whom he was usually courtesy itself. Consulting him about household matters was as a rule merely a form, for he almost never interfered.
"Yes'm," Teddy answered. "I won't do it again." "But we want to play something," put in Janet. "It's no fun being in the house all day." "I know it isn't. But I think the rain is going to stop pretty soon. If you get your rain-coats and rubbers you may go out for a little while." "Me go too?" begged Trouble. "Yes, you may go too," agreed his mother.
Your feet will be dusty from your long walk, and you must have a fresh pair for the second day. Where is your rain-coat?" "Rain-coat? Why, I never thought of it." "A checker-board would not keep the rain from wetting you should there come up a sudden shower. You must have it in, no matter what you leave at home." "Paul and Fritz did not say they would take their rain-coats in their knapsacks."
Poets and novelists and politicians may work for "glory," but no man is going to show calico and fit slippers for such remuneration. Nor are all the old evils of the competitive method banished from the Zone. In the Canal Record, the government organ, the government commissary advertised a sale of excellent $7 rain-coats at $1 each. The "Record"! It is like reading it in the Bible.
We did not get any other clothing until we were just about to leave Cuba, by which time most of the men were in tatters; some being actually barefooted, while others were in rags, or dressed partly in clothes captured from the Spaniards, who were much more suitably clothed for the climate and place than we were. The ponchos were poor, being inferior to the Spanish rain-coats which we captured.
It seemed as if the universe were on fire. The noise was terrific. The whole heavens were lit up from end to end. The beauty and the horror of it were indescribable. At five o'clock they went sadly back to the hut. The hospital tents had been put up in the dark and now stood ready for the wounded who were expected momentarily. The girls took off their rain-coats and reported for duty.
From it emerged eight fellows in rain-coats, while the tall, long-nosed watcher whom Neil had seen at the corner joined them and made his report. The group looked toward Livingston's window and Neil dodged back. "It's too late now," he whispered. "There they are." "Look a bit damp, don't they," laughed Livingston softly as he peered out over the other's shoulder. "I'll go down and lock the door."
They got up, put on their rain-coats, rubber boots, steel helmets, took their gas masks and went out in the fields where they could see. Soon the barrage was started. Darkness took on a rosy hue from shells bursting. First a shell fell on Montsec. Then one landed in the ammunition dump just back of it and blew it up, making it look like a huge crater of a volcano.
"Visitors outside. Make 'em comfortable. Back soon," he jerked out as he changed his coat with small respect for his injured arm. Then he clutched a couple of rain-coats from the rack and flew out of the back door like a man suddenly gone mad. The impulse which drove Penelope out for the second time that night may he readily appreciated.
Then it is that the farmers, dressed in their grass rain-coats, and carrying sickles and bamboo poles in their hands, assemble before the gate of their lord's palace at the capital, and represent their grievances, imploring the intercession of the retainers, and even of the womankind who may chance to go forth.
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