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'Is he? said Dick, with an oath. 'He won't. I'm not much good now, but if you and the Nilghai hold him down I'll engage to trample on him till he sees reason. He'll stay behind, indeed! He's the best of you all. There'll be some tough work by Omdurman. We shall come there to stay, this time. But I forgot. I wish I were going with you. 'So do we all, Dickie, said the Keneu.
Torpenhow nodded forgiveness: 'You were more sorry when he cut you out, though. Go on, Keneu. 'I've often thought, when I've seen men die out in the desert, that if the news could be sent through the world, and the means of transport were quick enough, there would be one woman at least at each man's bedside. 'There would be some mighty quaint revelations.
Go into the bedroom and suggest full confession and an appeal to this Maisie girl, whoever she is. I honestly believe he'd try to kill you; and the blindness has made him rather muscular. 'Torpenhow's course is perfectly clear, said the Keneu. 'He will go to Vitry-sur-Marne, which is on the Bezieres-Landes Railway, single track from Tourgas.
He pointed through the open door; it was a hot night. 'Can you blame me? The Keneu purred above his pipe like a large and very happy cat 'Don't blame you in the least. It's uncommonly good of you, and all the rest of it, but every man even you, Torp must consider his work. I know it sounds brutal, but Dick's out of the race, down, gastados expended, finished, done for.
'There's grit in Dick, said the Nilghai, an hour later, when the room was emptied of all save the Keneu. 'It was the sacred call of the war-trumpet. Did you notice how he answered to it? Poor fellow! Let's look at him, said the Keneu. The excitement of the talk had died away. Dick was sitting by the studio table, with his head on his arms, when the men came in. He did not change his position.
'News! great news! he wrote. 'The Nilghai knows, and so does the Keneu. We're all back on Thursday. Get lunch and clean your accoutrements. Dick showed Bessie the letter, and she abused him for that he had ever sent Torpenhow away and ruined her life.
Saving only his ally, Keneu the Great War Eagle, there was no man higher in the craft than he, and he always opened his conversation with the news that there would be trouble in the Balkans in the spring. Torpenhow laughed as he entered. 'Never mind the trouble in the Balkans. Those little states are always screeching. You've heard about Dick's luck?
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