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And then followed a series of nurse's most ghastly anecdotes, relative to fat mothers who had ill-treated their children, fat nurses who had nearly been the death of their unfortunate charges, fat female murderers, and a fat acquaintance of her own, who was "taken" in apoplexy after a fit of rage with her husband. "What a warning! what a moral!" said Mrs. Cadman.
"So do I," Mr. Mordacks answered, with a smile of curious humor. And the rector could not help smiling too, at this instance of genuine candor. "However, not to go too deeply into that," his visitor continued, "there really is one point in Robin's letter which demands inquiry. I mean about the guns of the Preventive men. Cadman may be a rogue. Most probably he is.
The relationships between those two departments remained practically unchanged until the formation of the Chemical Warfare Department in October, 1917. This statement must be qualified, however, by a reference to the services rendered by Professor, later Sir John Cadman, K.C.M.G., in bringing about this liaison, not only with supply in England, but also with that in France.
"Do you know the king of all serpents he who comes over any wall, he who goes through any thatch? He dwells there. He feeds upon the children of men and upon their creatures. He comes only to the edge, but he eats!" The boy who told them this was so different from other boys they had seen, that Cadman asked him direct: "Who are you?"
Cadman was a bit pale, but Skag's face looked serene, as he questioned innocently: "Rose-pearl?" "Yes," Dickson Sahib began absently, "she's here when she's not visiting one of her numerous brothers; just now it's Billium in Bombay. Her degree is from London University and the medical service recognises her work among the people.
"Well, well, captain, now!" cried Stephen Anerley, getting up after waiting to be spoken to, "the breath of us all is hard to get, with doing of our duty, Sir. Come ye in, and sit doon to table, and his Majesty's forces along o' ye." "Cadman, Ellis, and Dick, be damned!" the lieutenant shouted out to them; "you shall have all the victuals you want, by-and-by. Cross legs, and get your winds up.
"I will do as you say," Skag said steadily. Cadman hiccoughed. "The eye moved," he explained. "There it did it again. I got a feeling as if an elevator dropped a flight. What were you saying?" "That I am here to take orders." "I'm taking orders to-night, son. I wouldn't risk your good opinion by shooting your guest "
Certainly Cadman would never forget the length of time he had seen the looming head less than two feet from Skag's face the incredible power that flamed up out of the young man's eyes. Certainly Skag was full of content as to the safety of the people. But all realisations were lost in a gnawing depression about Dhoop Ki Dhil.
He and Widow Carroway and I had a long talk after the trial, and we all agreed that the murder was committed by a villain called 'John Cadman, a sneak and a skulk, whom I knew well, as one of Carroway's own men. Among other things, they chanced to say that Cadman's gun was missing, and that the poor widow can swear to it.
It was as if a great multitude sang a great lullaby together. "Boy, boy! This is a hard knock at our civilisation!" Cadman was not aware that he had spoken. Skag shook his head. "God! how I love it!" burst from him; and he had no shame of that love. Little Koob Soonder's body in heavy silks of gleaming blue was laid on a bamboo pyre.
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