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Updated: May 24, 2025
We all got up an' one o' the captains had his arm broke, an' there was hell to pay, worse than losing the sergeant. So we walked on down the road. I don't know how it got to be daylight. But we got to some hell of a town or other an' there was two M. P.'s all ready to meet us.... Compree?... Well, we didn't mess around with them captains.
"I got a friend. My old boss is captain, and he's goin' to fix it up. I used to alley around politics chez moy. Compree?" The champagne came and Dan Cohan popped the cork up to the ceiling with dexterous red fingers. "I was just wondering who was going to give me a drink," he said. "Ain't had any pay since Christ was a corporal. I've forgotten what it looks like."
"Well," he went on, "we went like a bat out of hell along a good state road, and it was all fine until one of the captains thought we ought to have a race. We did.... Compree? The flivvers flivved all right, but the hell of it was we got so excited about the race we forgot about the sergeant an' he fell off an' nobody missed him.
"James Marmaduke Trevor." "Otherwise called Doggie, miss," said Mo. She made a little graceful gesture of non-comprehension. "Non compree?" asked Mo. "No, monsieur." Phineas explained, in his rasping and consciously translated French: "It is a nickname of the regiment. Doggie." The flushed and embarrassed subject of the discussion saw her lips move silently to the word. "But his name is Trevor.
"Not a bit of it," said wild Dan Cohen, jerking his head to one side. "They gave us gas and commutation of rations an' told us to go on in the mornin'. You see we put up a good line of talk, compree?... Well, we went to the swankiest restaurant.... You see we had on those bloody British uniforms they gave us when the O. D. gave out, an' the M. P.'s didn't know just what sort o' birds we were.
They made room for him on the bench. "Well, I'm confined to barracks," said Dan Cohan. "Look at me!" He laughed and gave his head a curious swift jerk to one side. "Compree?" "Ain't ye scared they'll nab you?" said Fuselli. "Nab me, hell, they can't do nothin' to me. I've had three court- martials already and they're gettin' a fourth up on me." Dan Cohan pushed his head to one side and laughed.
"If it weren't for old Mo, miss, I don't know what would happen to our friend Doggie. I got to look after him like a baby, I 'ave. He's on to relieve guard, and if old Mac that's McPhail" she nodded recognition of the name "and I hadn't remembered, miss, he'd 'ave been in what yer might call a 'ole. Compree?" "Oui. Yes," she said. "Garde. Sentinelle." "Sentinel. Sentry. Right."
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