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When I see other mothers with big sons I feel I can't bear your being right at the other side of the world. Mrs. Cornell came in with Rupert to-day, and for the first time in my life I felt I hated them both. The doctor and Mr. Blackie have been in playing billiards with the Pater. I strongly suspect the Pater let the old chap win. Anyway, he was very excited about it when he went home."
So, James, I'll gie ye the siller to-night, and ye'll send it through your bank as early as may be in the morn." "Donald wanting money is an old want, Mr. Cameron." David glanced quickly at James, and answered almost haughtily, "It's a common want likewise, James Blackie. But if Donald McFarlane wants money, he's got kin that can accommodate him, James; wanters arena always that fortunate."
He looked at his wrist watch, folded his serviette and rose from the mess-table with a little nod to the president. It was a gratifying fact, which Blackie had remarked, that Second Lieutenant, late Sergeant, Tam, had taken to the mess as naturally as a duck to water. He showed neither awkwardness nor shyness, but this was consonant with his habit of thought.
Then we carried him into the starboard foc'sle, and placed him in my bunk, which had a comfortable mattress. "Now you see what he got?" said Boston, wiping his hands on his greasy pants. "And you see what you got. And you know what happened to Big 'Un. Well, how about it, Shreve? Do you stand with us?" "With the crowd, sink or swim that's what we want to know?" added Blackie. I sized them up.
"Ah, the gun," said Tam as though it were some small matter which he had overlooked in the greater business of the day. "Well, now, sir-r, that is some gun, and after A've had a sup o' tea A'll tell you the story of ma reckless exploits." He walked slowly over to his mess, followed by the badinage of his superiors. "You saw it, Austin, didn't you?" Blackie turned to the young airman.
I went with him willingly. I was anxious to hear what he had to say "private." I was even more anxious to get away from the crowd for a few moments, and think out some scheme whereby I could avert the impending catastrophe. Boston led me up on the foc'sle head, and we sat down upon an anchor stock. "We ain't such fools as you think, Blackie and me," he commenced abruptly.
Be that as it may, he was one of a numerous circle of literati who lived contemporary with and subsequent to himself, to whom the bar never brought any laurels; but after all, he made better progress in the Court of Session than Professor Blackie, whose briefs were so terribly akin to angels' visits that he has been heard to declare himself that his practice as an advocate never brought him so much as £40 a-year.
I shook them off with trembling fingers and when they saw that I was quite determined they gave in, and Von Gerhard telephoned to the hospital to learn the hour at which I might meet the others who were to see Blackie for a brief moment.
"Have you ever seen two puppies at play?" asked Blackie. "Look at Tam chasing his tail and neither man knows the other or has ever looked upon his face! Isn't it weird? That's von Hansen-Bassermann's ninth sense. They can't speak they can't even see one another properly and yet they're good pals look at 'em. I've watched the puppies of the pack go on in exactly the same way."
You can't beat it, so wade right in an' spoil your complexion." With enthusiasm I turned upon the patient Rosie. "O, bring me some of those cunning little round things with the cream on 'em, you know two of those, eh Blackie? And a couple of those with the flaky crust and the custard between, and a slice of that fluffy-looking cake and some of those funny cocked-hat shaped cookies "
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