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"I had no time to turn, bekaze that minut I heard the sowl quit him tore out in the death-rattle an' she laid him back in a long chair, an' she sez to me, 'Misther soldier, she sez, 'will ye not go in an' talk to wan av the girls. This sun's too much for him. "Well I knew there was no sun he'd iver see, but I cud not spake, so I wint away wid the empty doolie to find the docthor.
So I bundled in somehow, said a wistful good-bye to Boggley, and we started. I can't honestly say I like a doolie. I would rather have been my luggage and gone in the bullock-cart. Whichever way I lay I very soon got an ache in my back. The conduct, too, of the coolies filled me with uneasiness. They kept up a continued groaning.
The Sergeant-Major was right. 'Not going out this journey, gasped Bobby, as he was lifted from the doolie. 'Not going out this journey. Then with an air of supreme conviction 'I can't, you see. 'Not if I can do anything! said the Surgeon-Major, who had hastened over from the mess where he had been dining. He and the Regimental Surgeon fought together with Death for the life of Bobby Wick.
I was all alone in India, indeed worse than alone, I was in the company of six natives most inadequately clothed: of their language I knew not one single word; I didn't even know if they were carrying me in the direction I wanted to go. Suddenly the groaning ceased, and I found myself and the doolie planted on the ground. Was my bright young life to be ended?
None but those who have been woken up in this manner from a comfortable state of unconsciousness, to the full realities of doolie travelling in Indian heat and dust, can form an idea of the trial it is to one's temper; and, from my own feelings, together with the sounds I hear from my companion's direction, I can testify as to the relief that the use of foreign expletives affords under the affliction.
"Why, 'tis my rifle!" sez I, comin' up to look; "Vulmea, ye divil, fwhat were you doin' wid her answer me that?" "Lave me alone," sez Vulmea; "I'm dyin'!" "I'll wait till you're betther," sez I, "an' thin we two will talk ut out umbrageous." 'O'Hara pitched Tim into the doolie, none too tinder, but all the bhoys kep' by their cots, which was not the sign av innocint men.
The striped squirrel was very busy amongst the rocks; and I saw a few mice, and the traces of bears. At 3 p.m., the temperature was 54 degrees, and the air deliciously cool and pleasant. This I was glad to do in a doolie, and I was carried to the bottom, with only one short rest, in an hour and three quarters.
Finally, lulled by the movement of the doolie, she fell asleep; and awoke to find herself in a changed world; a world of rough-cut volcanic rock and boulder, piled up on either hand in fantastic disarray; a world of white light and sharp black shadows; of mystery, and terror, and uncanny beauty.
Just when the reasons were drowsy with blood-sucking I heard the regular "Let-us-take-and-heave-him-over" grunt of doolie-bearers in the compound. First one doolie came in, then a second, and then a third. I heard the doolies dumped on the ground, and the shutter in front of my door shook. "That's some one trying to come in," I said.
'Well an' good do you know fwhat ut is, ye skulkin' ditch-lurkin' dogs! Get a doolie, an' take this whimperin' scutt away. There will be more heard av ut than any av you will care for. "Vulmea sat up rockin' his head in his hand an' moanin' for Father Constant. "'Be done! sez O'Hara, dhraggin' him up by the hair. 'You're none so dead that you cannot go fifteen years for thryin' to shoot me.
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