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These were run to earth in the station-master's office, and as the party had no idea where to go, we suggested they should come with us to the rest-house. The first person we met there was Dr. Clemow. "Have you got the Sirdar with you?" we asked. He answered that he had brought Paul, the young Montenegrin interpreter, with him.
A blind-cord creaked, a window went up over a ship-chandler's shop next door, and a man thrust out his head. "What's wrong?" he demanded. "Sorry to disturb ye, Clemow; but old Rodriguez, here, bespoke us to sweep his chimneys at five, and we can't get admittance." "Why, I heard him unbolt for ye an hour ago!" said the ship-chandler. "He woke me up with his noise, letting down the chain."
But I can testify from experience, acquired some forty years afterwards, that Mr. and Mrs. Clemow now keep there one of the best inns of its class, that I, no incompetent expert in such matters, know in all England.
"Quel pays," he said, bounding up. "Et les Bulgars, quoi?" "Good Lord," said Jan. "Let's go out and get some fresh air." The only people lacking to complete the scene were the Sirdar and Dr. Clemow. A doctor who had just arrived from Salonika asked us to look after four English orderlies who, new to the country, were travelling to the Red Cross mission at Vrntze.
Which I was reckoning that she being from foreign parts and the Islands the first place she've touched at, I might pick up a bravish order in the way of fresh milk and eggs, not to mention that Job Clemow sold me half-a-hundredweight of plaice, with a cod or two, that he took on the spiller yesterday."
You don't know what a runaway hoss will do, but you're afeared all the same." He sank his voice. "There's wantonness, for one thing six love-children born in the parish this year, and more coming. They do say that Vashti Clemow destroyed her child. And Old Man Johns him they found dead on the rocks under the Island he didn't go there by accident. 'Twas a calm day, too."
However, the dinner was excellent all "disguised," she said, for she had during the few weeks she had been there concentrated on the art of disguising bully beef and worse problems, and had sternly put Dr. Clemow on omelets and beefsteaks, as his digestion had caved in under six months' unadulterated tinned food. We met old friends, fellow travellers on the way out.
Montenegrins crowded in, and discussed the probable end of the war. There was little enthusiasm shown, most of the talk was of the hardships, and a little grumbling that the farms were going to pieces because of the lack of men. Before leaving Plevlie, Dr. Clemow had presented Jan with a box of Red Cross cigars, and he handed one to the captain. The official received it gratefully. "Ah!" he said.
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