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A half-hour later Corporal Galna confided to Private Waugh that Sergeant Gellatly was too damned pretty for the force wondered if they called him Beauty at Fort Desire couldn't call him Pretty Gellatly, for there was Pretty Pierre who had right of possession to that title would like to ask him what soap he used for his complexion 'twasn't this yellow bar-soap of the barracks, which wouldn't lather, he'd bet his ultimate dollar.
Private Gellatly said, with a shake of the head, as she was lost to view: "Devils bestir me, what a widdy she'll make!" It was understood that Aleck Windsor and Mab Humphrey were to be married on the coming New Year's Day. What connection was there between the words of Sergeant Fones and those of Private Gellatly? None, perhaps.
The sun above was smothered; the earth beneath was trackless; the compass stood for loss all round. What could Sergeant Gellatly expect, riding with a murderer on his left hand: a heathen that had sent a knife through the heart of one of the lords of the North? What should the gods do but frown, or the elements be at, but howling on their path?
But Pierre and Galbraith were as dumbfounded as the Sergeant himself to know that the letter was gone. They were stunned beyond speech when Jen said, flushing: "No, Sergeant Tom, I am the thief. When I could not wake you, I took the letter from your pocket and carried it to Inspector Jules last night, or, rather, Sergeant Gellatly carried them. I wore his cap and cloak and passed for him."
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