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For a moment Hal thought that the ex-officer meant to strike him with the cane which he raised. It sank. "You miserable hound!" said Dr. Elliot. Hal stood, silent. "What have you to say for yourself?" "Nothing." "My niece came to your office to save your rag of a sheet. I shot down a poor crazy devil in your defense. And this is how you repay us."
"Is that credential enough for you?" he asked. "I am more than satisfied," I replied. "Then permit me to introduce myself. I am Captain Myles Rudstone, at your service ex-officer of Canadian Volunteers, formerly of London and Paris, and now serving under the same banner as yourself. In short, I am a man of the world." "I judged as much, sir," said I.
They were to spend the next three weeks South, and then return for Trixy's wedding at Christmas. Christmas came; merry Christmas, sparkling with snow and sunshine, as Christmas ever should sparkle, and bringing that gallant ex-officer of Scotch Grays, Captain Angus Hammond captain no longer plain Mr.
With an animated burst of chatter the house-party had given itself over to a thorough enjoyment of the remainder of breakfast. Ultimatums and the alarums of war vanished into thin air, like mists dispelled by the sun. The serious face of the ex-officer and the unwonted air of distraction on Lord Durwent's countenance were the only indications that the morning was different from any other.
As soon as the stranger had left, Raoul recovered from his excitement, and began to wonder what could have been the motive for this evidently premeditated insult. Picking up the card of the bully, he read: W. H. B. JACOBSON. Formerly Garibaldian volunteer, Ex-officer of the army of the South. 30, Rue Leonie.
Even the careless disposition of the young ex-officer of an opium-clipper was affected by the ominous aspect of the hour. What was this vessel? What were those people? What would happen to-morrow? To the yacht? To himself? He felt suddenly without any additional reason but the darkness that it was a poor show, anyhow, a dashed poor show for all hands.
She read the naïve solicitation of the alleged ex-officer of the B.E.F., who had won through the war with every known decoration except the Double Cross of the Order of St. Gall and with nothing of his anatomy left whole except his cheek, begging some great-hearted soul to buy him a barrel organ to play in the streets.
I had not slept and had scarcely tasted food for more than thirty hours; for, following up a faint clue supplied by Burke, Slattin's man, and, like his master, an ex-officer of New York Police, my friend, Nayland Smith, on the previous evening, had set out in quest of some obscene den where the man called Shen-Yan former keeper of an opium shop was now said to be in hiding.
The Navy of Japan as it is to-day is a triumph of organisation. Discussing a short time ago the question with an ex-officer of the Mercantile Marine who had, by a curious chance, served as a Naval Reserve officer in both the English and Japanese Navies, he explained to me the wonderful progress of the latter by pointing out that it had been, as it were, called instantaneously into existence.
The importance of commercial spying is that commercial war is all the time at the bottom of Germany's preparations for military war. Carl Lody, a German ex-officer, was recently tried in London by court-martial and shot for "war treason" that is, for sending information regarding our Navy to Germany during hostilities.
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