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Updated: June 9, 2025
The Band, a disorganized mob, tore past, and at its heels labored the Drum-Horse the dead and buried Drum-Horse with the jolting, clattering skeleton, Hogan-Yale whispered softly to Martyn "No wire will stand that treatment," and the Band, which had doubled like a hare, came back again.
The Band, a disorganized mob, tore past, and at it's heels labored the Drum-Horse the dead and buried Drum-Horse with the jolting, clattering skeleton. Hogan-Yale whispered softly to Martyn: "No wire will stand that treatment," and the Band, which had doubled like a hare, came back again.
As the men dropped in, his language grew wilder, until at last it exceeded the utmost limits of free speech allowed even to a Colonel of Horse. Martyn took Hogan-Yale aside and suggested compulsory retirement from the Service as a necessity when all was discovered. Martyn was the weaker man of the two.
A week later, Hogan-Yale received an extraordinary letter from some one who signed himself "Secretary, Charity and Zeal, 3709, E. C.," and asked for "the return of our skeleton which we have reason to believe is in your possession." "Who the deuce is this lunatic who trades in bones?" said Hogan-Yale.
Martyn was the weaker man of the two, Hogan-Yale put up his eyebrows and remarked, firstly, that he was the son of a Lord, and secondly, that he was as innocent as the babe unborn of the theatrical resurrection of the Drum-Horse. "My instructions," said Yale, with a singularly sweet smile, "were that the Drum-Horse should be sent back as impressively as possible.
But one of the Subalterns Hogan-Yale, an Irishman bought the Drum-Horse for Rs. 160 at the sale, and the Colonel was wroth. Yale professed repentance he was unnaturally submissive and said that, as he had only made the purchase to save the horse from possible ill-treatment and starvation, he would now shoot him and end the business.
The White Hussars shouted, and threw everything movable about them into the air, and when the parade was over, they cheered the Colonel till they couldn't speak. No cheers were put up for Lieutenant Hogan-Yale, who smiled very sweetly in the background. Said the Second-in-Command to the Colonel, unofficially: "These little things ensure popularity, and do not the least affect discipline."
I ask you, AM I responsible if a mule-headed friend sends him back in such a manner as to disturb the peace of mind of a regiment of Her Majesty's Cavalry?" Martyn said: "you are a great man and will in time become a General; but I'd give my chance of a troop to be safe out of this affair." Providence saved Martyn and Hogan-Yale.
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