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But Tam was keeping clear of the mess-room just now, and he either sent an orderly with his messages or waited religiously on the mat. Brandspeth brought one of the new men over to his bunk the night the American contingent arrived. "I want you to meet an American officer, Tam," he yelled. "Don't be an ass open the door." He was on one side of the locked door and Tam was on the other.
He told himself this and knew that he lied he and they stood on grounds of equality; they were men doing men's work and risking their lives one for the other. Tam whistled a dreary little tune, took down his cap and walked over to the workshops. There was a motorcycle which Brandspeth told him he could use, and after a moment's hesitation, Tam wheeled the machine to the yard.
Oh, Tam!" said the shocked Brandspeth, producing from his overcoat pocket a siphon of soda, a large flask of amber-brown liquid and a bundle of cigars, and setting them upon the table. "Really, Tam is always making the strangest acquaintances." "He never met anybody stranger than Vera or better," said Laramore, with a little laugh. "Vera, I suppose, is worth a million dollars.
"It's in General Orders this morning, sir you've got a commission, an' Mr. Brandspeth says that the mess will be expectin' you to lunch at one-thirty." Tam sat down on the bed, biting his lip. "Get oot, Angus," he said huskily, "an' stay you! Ye'll find a seegair in the box under the bed an', Angus, A'm lunchin' oot to-morrow."
She is a citizen of a neutral country. She can have the bulliest time any girl could desire, and yet she elects to come to France, drive a car over abominable roads which are more often than not under shell-fire, and sleep in a leaky old shack for forty cents a day." Brandspeth was filling the glasses.
Tam turned the key reluctantly and admitted the visitors. "A'm no' wishin' to be unceevil, Mr. Brandspeth, but Captain Blackie will strafe ye if he finds ye here." "Rubbish! I want you to meet Mr. Laramore." Tam looked at the keen-faced young athlete and slowly extended his hand. "I think you know my sister," said the smiling youth, "and certainly we all know you."
He passed Brandspeth and Walker-Giddons and responded to their flippant greetings with as stiff a salute as he was capable of offering. They stared after him in amazement. "What's the matter with Tam?" they demanded simultaneously, one of the other. Tam reached his room, closed and locked the door and sat down to unravel a confused situation.
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