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You are all ah you are all parts of the ah machine, if you see my drift, Thayer, and if one part is missing, why ah Well, you see what I mean?" "Yes, of course. I'll remember the next time." "Well, I wouldn't let there be any next time if I were you. To be frank, Thayer, Robey doesn't like fellows to cut. If you do it much he's awfully likely to tell you to ah stay away altogether!"
Robey, and it was understood that he was giving his services as a favour to the head coach. But it was soon evident that he was thoroughly enjoying it, and he entered into his task with heart and soul. In fact he was so anxious to develop a good team that one of the first things he did was to unwittingly fall foul of the faculty.
Robey had no time to waste on such an unprofitable occupation. Her brother-in-law, the great surgeon, Sir Jacques Robey, and all his best nurses had been now waiting for quite a long time for wounded who never came; and it required a good deal of diplomacy and tact on Mrs. Robey's part to keep them all in a good humour, and on fairly pleasant terms with her own original household.
Robey came in and Danny nodded reassuringly to him. "They'll be fine as fiddles in an hour, Coach. Now you boys scatter out o' here an' leave them have a bit nap." Tom didn't remember much for awhile after that, for he must have fallen promptly to sleep. When he awoke, the light was turned low and Steve was sitting on the edge of the bed.
Now no man can make a show in a second-hand outfit, and an artist is lost when folks begin to talk about the 'mantle' of somebody or other having 'fallen upon him. A critic can do nothing so unkind as to brand a poor poet 'The Australian Kipling, a painter 'The Welsh Whistler, or a comedian 'The George Robey of South Africa. The man is doomed."
"Would you care to hear the gramophone?" queried the champion of that particular form of entertainment. "We've got some perfectly priceless George Robey ones have you ever heard 'What there was, was Good?" He moved towards the instrument. "Never," said Sir William, taking advantage of the support afforded by the table and leaning back, "but nothing would give me greater pleasure."
"Now that Robey has pinched Thursby there's only about fifteen left on the team." "Sixteen, but we thought we'd get Robey to come if he would, and 'Boots, of course, and maybe Danny. That would make nineteen in all." "Where would you have it? Is there a hotel in the village?" "Not exactly, but there's a sort of a boarding-house there; 'Larch Villa, they call it. They'd look after us all right.
"Robey will sick all his subs on us to-day, I guess; and subs always think they have to kill you just to show how good they are." "If anyone tries any funny-business with me to-day he will get in trouble," growled Steve as he pulled his cap on and followed the others through the door. "I just hope someone will try it on!" Tom's prediction proved correct.
Oh, hang this rain!" said Harley, bitterly. "But couldn't they take them Forbes, I mean, and Robey to the hospital?" questioned Merryon. "No. To tell you the truth, Robey is pegging out, poor fellow. It's always the best chaps that go first, though. Heaven knows, we may be all gone before this time to-morrow." "Don't talk like a fool!" said Merryon, curtly. And Harley said no more.
It occurred so suddenly, with such an intricate mingling of backs and forwards, that Brimfield was unable then or later to fathom the play. Even from the side line, where Coach Robey and a dozen or more substitutes looked on intently, that play was puzzling.
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