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While we were engaged in this, the exploded shell of an old brown cartridge dropped out of one of the pockets and rolled at my feet. Gunga Dass had not seen it; and I fell to thinking that a man does not carry exploded cartridge-cases, especially "browns," which will not bear loading twice, about with him when shooting. In other words, that cartridge-case has been fired inside the crater.
Jim Bently, by the way, wasn't interested in their 'damned silliness'. Andy noticed an empty treacle-tin the sort with the little tin neck or spout soldered on to the top for the convenience of pouring out the treacle and it struck him that this would have made the best kind of cartridge-case: he would only have had to pour in the powder, stick the fuse in through the neck, and cork and seal it with bees'-wax.
Fraser's, and begged him to leave me unmolested. This news, which had come by a Daily Mail correspondent, on his way South to send off cables, was satisfactory as far as it went, and we at once despatched a trusty old nigger called Boaz with a tiny note, folded microscopically in an old cartridge-case, to give the garrison news of the surrounding country.
To this question the prosecution replied by the evidence taken on the first day of the inquiry, by the water in which Jacques had washed his hands, the cartridge-case found near the house, and the identity of the shot extracted from the count's wounds with those seized with the gun at Boiscoran. Every thing was plain, precise, and formidable, admitting of no discussion, no doubt, no suggestion.
Then comes the shock not so violent as I had expected and the cartridge-case drops out. The shell has sped on its way to the German trenches with what result to human flesh and blood? But I remember thinking very little of that till afterwards. At the time, the excitement of the shot and of watching that little group of men in the darkness held all one's nerves gripped.
Having taken careful note of other landmarks and glanced at the sun, he lay on the ground at full length for a minute and then arose and approached the camel, who greeted him with a bubbling snarl. On its great double saddle were a gun-cover and a long cane, while from it dangled a haversack, camera, cartridge-case, satchel, canvas water-bag, and a cord-net holdall of odds and ends.
Dark old steps near the orchard run down into a dug-out, with a cartridge-case tied to a piece of wood beside it to beat when the gas came. A telephone wire lies listlessly by the opening. A patch of Michaelmas daisies, deep mauve and pale mauve, and a bright yellow flower beside them, show where a garden used to stand near by.
He then ejected his empty cartridge-case, shouldered his piece, and continued to walk his post as unconcernedly as though he had shot a mad dog; as striking an example of discipline as any soldier could wish to see. So far as I could mark, this occurrence made no impression on the people gathered together. The day went on as before.
"Do you think you are the only one in this country who has a gun by this maker?" "I do not think it: I am quite sure of it." "So that you must, as a matter of course, have been at a spot where such a cartridge-case as this has been found?" "Not necessarily. I have often seen children pick up these things, and play with them."
"Oh, that if it hadn't been for that bullet and brass cartridge-case, backed up by the thick leather belt, that Boer's bullet would have bored now, now, you were going to laugh," he cried. "That I wasn't," I said wonderingly. "What is there to laugh at?" "Oh, you thought I was making a pun: bored a hole right through me." "Rubbish!" I said.
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