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Updated: June 18, 2025
'The old master allowed them.... Nikolai Petrovitch maybe won't give them permission.... The long one is a superannuated deacon quite a silly creature; and as for the other, that's a little stouter he's a brigadier. 'A brigadier? I repeated, wondering. This 'brigadier's' attire was almost worse than the deacon's. 'I assure you he's a brigadier. And he did have a fine property once.
"Congratulations!" The exclamation was passed back and forth as we met other officers on our way to brigade headquarters in a dugout on the hillside, where Howell's felicitations to the happy brigadier on the way that his men had gone in were followed by suggestions and a discussion about future plans, which I left to them while I had a look through the brigadier's telescope at Thiepval Ridge under the patterns of shell fire of average days, which proved that the Germans were making no attempt at a counter-attack to recover lost ground.
"Yes," he muttered, "I know that." And without another word he went back to the mess-room. I went on and entered the palace. To reach the brigadier's quarters I had to pass down the whole length of the building, and I was not in the least surprised to see Elsie Matheson waiting for me in one of the passage-like ante-rooms.
I charge myself with the care of the lord high admiral's interests; at the proper time they shall be duly attended to." Having the profoundest respect for the brigadier's legal attainments, and no great confidence in my own, I was fain to submit.
There's very little about artillery work that Strangwise doesn't know. Our Brigadier's a good judge, too... he was a gunner himself once, you know." "I'm glad to hear you say that," answered the Chief, "because there are some things he has told us, about the movements of troops, particularly, that don't agree in the least with our own Intelligence reports.
This unlooked-for result of his dismal communication roused the Major, who first rebuked us for our levity, and, after an interval occupied in the recovery of his scattered senses, proceeded to acquaint us with the true facts of what had happened at the Brigadier's quarters.
I would not have missed getting him for ten thousand dollars. It would have been a brigadier's commission to me. I will hang you for it." Up to this time I had taken the situation smilingly and pleasantly, because I did not apprehend violence; but the officer, livid with rage from disappointment, directed one of his men to take the halter from his horse and hang me to a designated limb of a tree.
'Where on earth did they get the tune? I've never heard it before, said the brigadier, and tried to hum it. The staff officer told him something of the tale as he had heard it, and the Frenchman's amazement and the brigadier's laughter grew as the tale was told. We 'ave one foe, an' one alone England!
So we lit pipes and waited, while the convoy was ordered to be hurried up as much as possible. Up galloped an orderly with a note, and everyone tried to read the Brigadier's face. It clouded a little. "Enemy advancing in strength on our front" was the essence of the note. But "They've got us in the nastiest place of the whole march" was all he said.
An officer came forward, and, by the Brigadier's order, read the sentence of the court-martial, and at its conclusion the six men in front, under escort, walked towards the battery. There was a death-like silence over the scene at this time, and, overcome with horror, my heart seemed almost to cease beating.
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