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He was in a frightful funk lest he should be one, and to him this was a matter of great concern, though he mentioned it to no one, not even to Smoky. He wondered whether his cobber was affected in the same way, but thought not, as he was so keen to get to the front. So he had felt a little ashamed.
There were some fine men in the hospital and next to Mac lay Mick. He was a Light Horseman, and Mac made a cobber of him. "Chest's me trouble touch of t.b. the Doc says. I cough away some of these nights like a sheep with lung-worm.
They had dreaded much from the bigger college boys, but now the spectators saw that Gridley could hold its own for strategy, ruse and speed. Cobber lost its temper just a bit, now, before the smiling faces of these High School boys. Some rough playing followed, but the home boys kept their tempers. Soon Ben Badger signaled another fake kick formation.
He followed, and joined the rest of the tent's company in recovering the tattered remnants, and towels, and personal property which had strayed into the domain of the next regiment. Camp was not a healthy spot in the khamsin days, Mac decided. Coins to a piastreless cobber smoothed over a horse-picket difficulty, and he passed out of the camp by back ways.
The temperature of the horse-holes had for a long space never fallen below 110° F.; and five horses had been each man's charge. "Where are we going, d'you know, Bill?" asked Mac. "Sure I don't know. Some fellers say it's Cairo. Others say it's a place called Zeitoun, and God only knows where that is. Anyhow I hope it's Cairo. Cobber of mine, who'd bin there, told me it was just a bit of all right.
Mother Corey chuckled, and wheezed his way up out of the chair, exchanging places with Gordon. "I got a surprise for you, cobber," he said, and there was only amusement in his voice. "I got me in fifty gallons of water today, and tomorrow I do just that. Made up my mind there was going to be a cleanup in Marsport, even if Wayne does win. And stop examining the cards, Bruce.
From the looks of things you might be here for a day or two yet." Mac thought for a minute or two and decided to take matters into his own hands. He heard some one passing along the path. "Hullo you! Come over here," he called. Some one approached. "What's up, cobber?" "If you're going to the rear you might as well take me along with you. I can walk all right. I only want a helping hand.
I'd go myself, but I'm getting too old to go chasing men out there." "What's in it?" Gordon asked, reaching for his helmet. There was a surprised exchange of glances from the others, but Mother Corey chuckled. "Heart like a steel trap, cobber," he said, almost approvingly. "Well, you'll be earning your keep here yours and that granddaughter's, too. Here you'll need directions for finding Praeger."
That was Gridley's specialty for this game, one long planned and worked for. Quarter-back Winters again got the ball. With a handsome forward pass he made it Thompson's, and it went to the enemy's seven-yard line. "Question -four!" appealed Cheer-Master Prescott, through the megaphone. Back from twenty boys on the home stand came the heavy query: "Where's Cobber? Where's Cobber?"
Izzy snorted, and Mother Corey grinned wolfishly. "You met her, cobber. The blonde you shook down! Came up from Earth eight years ago, looking for me. I sold her to the head of the East Point gang. Since she killed him, she's been doing pretty well on her own. Mostly. Except when she makes a fool of herself, like she did with you.
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