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There was too many buryin's thin to ask questions, an' the docthor he ran away wid Major Major Van Dyce's lady that year he saw to ut all. Fwhat the right an' the wrong av Love-o'-Women an' Di'monds-an'- Pearls was I niver knew, an' I will niver know; but I've tould ut as I came acrost ut here an' there in little pieces.
Whin by the process av nature they get sejuced into a big fight that was none av their seekin', he sez: 'Obsarve my shuparior janius! I meant ut to come so. We ran round an' about, an' all we got was shootin' into the camp at night, an' rushin' empty sungars wid the long bradawl, an' bein' hit from behind rocks till we was wore out all except Love-o'-Women.
Where he'd dhrawn his power from, God knows or the divil but 't was a dead man walkin' in the sun wid the face av a dead man and the breath av a dead man held up by the Power, an' the legs an' the arms of the carpse obeyin' ordhers! "The woman stud in the verandah. She'd been a beauty too, though her eyes was sunk in her head, an' she looked Love-o'-Women up an' down terrible.
Love-o'-Women saw fwhat was in my mind, an' 'Go on, Terence, h sez, 'I know fwhat's waitin' for you. 'I will not, I sez. "Twill kape a little yet. "Ye know the turn of the pass forninst Jumrood and the nine mile road on the flat to Peshawur? All Peshawur was along that road day and night waitin' for frinds men, women, childer, and bands.
Me not knowin' more than the dead fwhat ailed him, 'twas just as though the docthor's word had done ut all as if Love-o'-Women had but been waitin' for the ordher to let go. "In hospital he sez somethin' to the docthor that I could not catch. "'Holy shmoke! sez the docthor, 'an' who are you to be givin' names to your diseases? 'Tis ag'in' all the regulations.
"Now I had been minded to ask Cruik to take me back to the Ould Rig'mint, for the fightin' was over, an' I was wore out wid the ways av the bhoys in the Tyrone; but I shifted my will, an' hild on, an' wint to set wid Love-o'-Women in the hospital. As I have said, Sorr, the man bruk all to little pieces undher my hand.
'Is that ground? sez he; an' while I was thinkin' his mind was goin', up comes the docthor, who'd been anatomisin' a dead bullock. Love-o'-Women starts to go on quick, an' lands me a kick on the knee while his legs was gettin' into marchin' ordher. "Hould on there, sez the docthor; an' Love-o'-Women's face, that was lined like a gridiron, turns red as brick.
"'I'll not be a privit much longer, sez Love-o'-Women in his gentleman's voice, an' the docthor jumped. "'Thrate me as a study, Docthor Lowndes, he sez; an' that was the first time I'd iver heard a docthor called his name. "'Good-bye, Terence, sez Love-o'-Women. "Tis a dead man I am widout the pleasure av dyin'. You'll come an' set wid me sometimes for the peace av my soul.
'An', she sez, kickin' back the tail av her habit, 'An', she sez, 'fwhat are you doin' here, married man? "Love-o'-Women said nothin', but a little froth came to his lips, an' he wiped ut off wid his hand an' looked at her an' the paint on her, an' looked, an' looked, an' looked. "'An' yet, she sez, wid a laugh. Raines laugh whin Mackie died? Ye did not? 'You taught me the road.
She'd come on pass from Pindi, an' the Colonel's lady had lint her the tattoo. They'd been huggin' an' cryin' in each other's arms all the long night. "So she walked along wid her hand in mine, askin' forty questions to wanst, an' beggin' me on the Virgin to make oath that there was not a bullet consaled in me, unbeknownst somewhere, an' thin I remimbered Love-o'-Women.
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