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Updated: June 14, 2025
I'm cut pretty short by the home people, who don't understand, and there are other things polo ponies, dinner-races, subscriptions " "And the Bazaar." Geoffries caught his breath and glanced across at the stern, unhappy face. He read there in an instant a pitying contempt which at first seemed ridiculous, and then insolent, and then terrible.
I'm going to dress up and have a run around the Bazaar, and if you want a little excitement, you had better do likewise. You see things you don't see in the daytime, I can tell you, and some of the women aren't bad. Come on! We can run round to my diggings and change. Are you coming, Phipps and Geoffries?" The weedy young man addressed as Phipps rose with alacrity.
They were three wan, haggard men, weakened with hunger, exhausted with sleepless watching. That week had killed the youth in two of them. "Geoffries has just given me this," Carmichael said. "It is a list of our provisions. We have enough food, but there is no fresh water. The enemy has cut off the supply. We could not expect them to do otherwise."
"Anything for a change," he said. "Wake up, Innocence!" He brought his hand down with a friendly thump on Geoffries' shoulder, but the boy shook his head. "No," he said, in the same rough, monotonous voice. "I'm done for to-night. You fellows get on without me." "As you like. Good night." "Good night." The three men went into the bungalow.
I believe I've frightened them away already. There isn't a sound." Colonel Carmichael lifted his head. True enough, no living thing seemed to move. A profound hush hung in the air, broken only by Mrs. Cary's pitiful meanings. "Oh, Beatrice, Beatrice, where are you?" Geoffries turned his stained face to the Colonel's. "Beatrice! That's Miss Cary, isn't it? Anything happened to her?"
"You were playing some game for money. I have heard of that before, but I do not understand. Are you then, so poor?" Geoffries laughed miserably. "I am now," he said. "Then it is money that is the trouble?" "It always is. At first one plays for the fun of the thing and because oh, well, one has to, don't you know. Afterward, one plays to get it back." "But you have not got it back?"
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