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Then all were intensely quiet, watching the racers come trotting in single file down the ridge. Sarchedon's shrill neigh, like a whistle-blast, pealed in from the sage. From, fields and corrals clamored the answer attended by the clattering of hundreds of hoofs. Sarchedon and his followers broke from trot to canter canter to gallop and soon were cracking their hard hoofs on the stony court.
One could not but wonder how it feels to be hopelessly ruined in body early in life for helping to dig a ditch for a foreign power that, however well it may treat you materially, cares not a whistle-blast more for you than for its old worn-out locomotives rusting away in the jungle.
Zureda always came home from trips like these bringing some present or other for his wife; perhaps a pair of corsets, a fur collar, a box of stockings. The wife, knowing just the time when the express would get in, always went out on the balcony to see it pass. Her husband never failed to let her know he was coming, from afar, by blowing a long whistle-blast.
"Begin the game, the Rustlers to have the ball," called Lieutenant-Commander Havens. "And mix it up lively, Navy," called Hepson, who, both on account of his size and other qualifications, played center. At the whistle-blast the Rustlers kicked it off a beautiful, long, arching curve. The ball came to quarter-back, who passed it to Dave Darrin. Then the fun began.
Years of foot-slogging in France made my considered guess formidable in the competition. More dangerous still was that of the Colonel, for to him would fall the duty of the decisive whistle-blast, and his entry ultimately was not accepted by the 'committee. As in most sweepstakes, the first prize fell to a most undeserving winner.
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