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At this point he began to say "dammit," and with some sense of appreciation, too. Presently his eye caught sight of a thin stream of smoke, rather black than blue, arising from the little chimney at the rear of the cabin. His eyes flew very wide open; his heart experienced a sudden throbless moment; his mind leaped backward to the unexplained smoke mystery of the day before.
After some further wandering, he found the consul's house and knocked at the door, whereupon a high-pitched, querulous voice from inside cried: "Come in. Dammit, don't stand there hammering!" Kirk entered to find a huge, globular man clad in soiled linens sprawled in a musty Morris chair and sipping a highball.
"Boys, we are now in the bowels of the earth, way down deeper than a grave. Whew! how close it smells." Just then the baggagemaster had taken a dipper of water from the barrel, and was drinking it, when a sepulchral voice, that seemed to come from the coffin, said: "Dammit, let me out!"
What did ye write on the caird? Willie hesitated, muttered a few curses, and said slowly yet savagely: "Off to Flanders, wi' wi' kind love" oh, dammit! After considering the matter at intervals for about thirty years, Miss Tod, Christina's employer, decided to take a short change of air by accepting the long-standing invitation of an old and aged friend who dwelt in the country.
The fact that Dave would get a substantial reward if they made it out wasn't a lot of help; dammit, part of his job was protecting Imperial citizens! Still . . . "I'm afraid it will." To his surprise, Dave grinned. "That shouldn't be too hard. Those rebels're city people; they don't know what real mountains're like.
"A woman!" gasped the gentleman. "O God bless you thank heaven! Say she isn't dead you'll want water not a drop for miles, dammit brandy not a spot oh, curse and confound it say she isn't dead!" "She's not!" said Diana briefly. "God bless you again! Tell me what to do?" "Go away and leave her to me." "But how can I leave her?"
He felt himself no equal to Hovan's calm strength, but it was reassuring to know Hovan had that kind of confidence in him. "I think I'd rather have that choice to make. Dammit, Hovan, I've had to order people mindprobed, others killed, and that was bad enough. Those were criminals. How can I tell innocent people something that'll disturb all of them and probably kill a lot?
"You don't paint a frightening picture," complained the skipper ironically. "First you say we have to fight him and his kind, and then you imply that he was highly altruistic. What is the fact?" "Dammit!" said Coburn. "I hated him because he wasn't human. It made my flesh crawl to see him act so much like a man when he wasn't.
When he put down the paper his cherubic face was beaming, and he said: "Oh I know I'm a fool, but I wish the Lord had sent me to live in a town large enough so that every dirty-faced brat on the street wouldn't feel he had a right to call me 'Alphabetical'! Dammit, I've done the best I could! I haven't made any alarming success. I know it. There's no need of rubbing it in on me."
A moment he hesitated there in the road, then he turned and hurried away from temptation. "He ain't mine," he muttered. "Oh' dammit all!" But temptation followed him as it has followed many a boy and man. A little way down the road was a pasture through which by a footpath he could cut off half a mile of the three miles that lay between him and home.
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