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The black-suited spaceman suddenly dove straight at Astro and the cadet caught the full force of his body in his stomach. He sprawled on the deck, gasping. Miles was on top of him in a second, hands at Astro's throat. Fire danced in the cadet's brain as Ross Miles' steely fingers closed around his windpipe.
Nothing is permanent in their hearts, all is the work of the moment. Thus I was greatly flattered, but received little service. He represented that as I was to be continually engaged with him, I should be excused from duty, and might live on my cadet's allowance; that is to say, on the pay of a soldier: hardly would he consent to give me a uniform, thinking the clothing of the army might serve.
Clive found his voice at last? "'Yes, sir, says Clive, 'he has, an' something else. "Cook happened to be passin' with a tray; a lady what was squeamish had been having her vittles on deck. Mr. Clive cotched up a basin o' pea soup what was too greasy for madam, and in a twink he sets it upside down on the cadet's head.
'Would you like me to show you the garden? I inquired of the cadet. 'If you please, he replied, in the regular cadet's hoarse voice. Zinaida laughed again.... I had time to notice that she had never had such an exquisite colour in her face before. I set off with the cadet. There was an old-fashioned swing in our garden. I sat him down on the narrow plank seat, and began swinging him.
Roger mumbled through the bag, not opening it. "Why the excitement over a little rain?" "The fire's out, hotshot," said Astro. "It's as dark as the inside of a cow's number-four belly. We've got to move!" "Why?" asked Tom, not understanding the big cadet's sudden nervous excitement. "What's the matter with staying right where we are? Why go trooping around in the dark?"
Cadet's rough disposition chimed well with the Intendant's wish. "Come on, Varin, and the rest of you," cried he, "give spur, and fight your way through the rabble." The whole troop plunged madly at the crowd, striking right and left with their heavy hunting-whips. A violent scuffle ensued; many habitans were ridden down, and some of the horsemen dismounted.
'I wouldn't mind if I were paid wages and could spend the money as I liked. 'Poor old Pam! It is hard lines. I heard father tell the Rector he'd spent eighteen hundred at that sale. 'And I'm ashamed to face any of the tradesmen, said Pamela fiercely. 'Why they go on trusting us I don't know. Desmond looked out of the window with a puckered brow a slim figure in his cadet's uniform.
He forced Miles up from his chest and then up on his feet, never relenting. Miles' face was now twisted in agony. They stood on the deck, face to face, for almost a minute in silent struggle. There seemed to be no end to the power in the cadet's hands. Suddenly Ross Miles slumped to his knees and sprawled on the deck as Astro let him go. The black-clad spaceman had fainted.
"In my cadet days," smiled the lieutenant, "such a suspicion against a cadet officer would certainly have resulted in ostracism for him." "Now, Prescott," asked the officer in charge, leaning over and resting a friendly hand on the cadet's arm, "you feel that you have been, throughout, a gentleman and a good soldier, and that you have not done anything sneaky?" "That is my opinion of myself, Mr.
Bigot was excessively irritated, for he was lawyer enough to know that Cadet's fear was well founded. He walked up and down his cabinet, venting curses upon the heads of the whole party of the Honnetes Gens, the Governor and Commander of the Forces included.
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