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Updated: May 17, 2025
Lovaway, hatless and wearing a pair of slippers on his feet, was running up the street towards the barrack. His first case, a serious one, calling for instant attention, had come to him unexpectedly. Opposite Flanagan's shop he was stopped by Mrs. Doolan. She laid a skinny, wrinkled, and very dirty hand on his arm. Her shawl fell back from her head, showing a few thin wisps of grey hair.
"Por Sing," he said, "and you Zemindars of Oude, Major Hannay being disabled, Captain Doolan, who is now in command of the garrison, has come to represent him and to offer to surrender to you under the condition that the lives of all British and natives within the walls be respected, and that you pledge us your faith and honor that we shall be permitted to go down the country without molestation.
Glass. With care. He thought with a sentimental shock that the fair idol of his heart was perhaps driven to adopt the name of Doolan; and as he still studied the card, he was aware of a deadly, black depression settling steadily upon his spirits.
"You are right there, Doctor; only what is a man to do when fellows say, 'We want you to make up a pool, Doolan'?" "I should say the reply would be quite simple. I should answer, 'I am ready enough to play if any of you are ready to pay my losses and take my winnings; I am tired of being as good as an annuity to you all, for that is what you have been for the last ten years.
You, Doolan, I know ave, for you've always ad a deuce of a twist." "Lor, Bungay!" said Mrs. Bungay. "Faith, a man must be hard to please, Bungay, who can't eat a good dinner in this house," Doolan said, and he winked and stroked his lean chops with his large gloves; and made appeals of friendship to Mrs. Bungay, which that honest woman refused with scorn from the timid man.
Why, I don't get 'nough fees in a year to keep a poll-parrot in water-crackers. I don't now, that's the honest truth." "That does seem discouraging." "And then the worst of it is a man's friends won't stand by him. There's Doolan, the coroner in the next county. He found a drowned man up in the river just beyond the county line.
"I thought me frind Casey 'd be taken up f'r histin' a polisman f'r sure, though, to be fair with him, I niver knowed him to do but wan arnychist thing, and that was to make faces at Willum Joyce because he lived in a two-story an' bay-window brick house. Doolan said that was goin' too far, because Willum Joyce usually had th' price. Wan day Casey disappeared, an' I heerd he was married.
"The Doctor has just been scolding me because I am not fond enough of work," Captain Doolan laughed. "You are differently placed, Doolan," the Doctor said. "You have got plenty of enthusiasm in your nature most Irishmen have but you have had nothing to stir it. Life in a native regiment in India is an easy one.
He is quite my beau ideal of a soldier in appearance, but I don't think he is nice, Isobel. I have heard all sorts of stories about him." "Is that meant as a warning for me, Mrs. Doolan?" Isobel asked, smiling. "Well, yes, I think it is, if you don't mind my giving you one. There are some men one can flirt with as much as one likes, and there are some men one can't; he is one of that sort.
"It shows that practice is required for everything," he said; "before I went away I could have given each of those men a life, now they could give me two; I must devote half an hour a day to it till I get it back again." "And you shall give me a lesson, Doctor," Captain Doolan, who had also retired, said. "It would be time thrown away by both of us, Doolan.
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