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"Pass the 'buck," said the quartermaster sententiously. "I apologize. But Willett starts at day-break takes a sergeant, six men and a pack outfit thought you'd like to know. Leaves us with mighty few cavalry, now that Malloy and his people are still out." "What keeps them?" asked Harris, looking up from Bentley's busy hands. "I never heard what they were after."
"I gathered that he thought that all the officers of the post, from the general down, with perhaps two exceptions, distrusted him." "And these two were?" "Captain Stannard, sir, and Captain Turner." "I see," said Archer gravely. "Now, had anything happened had anything been said or done to account for his sensitiveness, we will call it?" Malloy hesitated.
I suppose I happened along in time to marry Buck and Miss Malloy at about twenty farm-houses. I hated to think how the romance was going to fade later on when all them marriage certificates turned up in banks where we'd discounted 'em, and the farmers had to pay them notes of hand they'd signed, running from $300 to $500. On the 15th day of May us three divided about $6,000.
Officers of experience knew the value of expert opinion to be had for the asking among sergeants with war records behind them, and Turner's right bower, into whose sanctum at barracks only his intimates ventured, save with cap in hand and "sir" on their lips, was a man of mark in the regiment. "Sergeant Malloy," said Archer, "did 'Tonio tell you why he was mistrusted?"
Miss Clarke calmly commented to the effect that the entire Blind Spot affair was due wholly and simply to the cumulative effects of so many, many subjects; the result, in other words, of error. Dr. Malloy was equally outspoken in his announcement that he proposed to deal with the matter from the standpoint of psychic aberration. He mentioned dissociated personalities, group hypnosis, and so on.
The mental attitude was Miss Clarke's, modified by Dr. Malloy. The lead bracelets were Mme. Le Fabre's suggestion; they work fine. Sir Henry was the one who pointed out the advantage of the microphone I am using. If my hands become paralysed I can easily call for help to my side. Well, the first connection I tried resulted in nothing. Perfectly blank.
But in all Camp Almy that night there was only one officer who, knowing few of these facts, nevertheless knew 'Tonio so well, and so repented him of his own brief suspicion, that he would have called a halt to the order given Captain Turner within the hour to send Sergeant Malloy, with a dozen men, as soon as the coast was clear of the hostile Apaches, to run down 'Tonio wherever he might be, to secure and bring him in, a prisoner bound, and if he sought to escape, to shoot him dead.
"One," says I, "that is cool and wise and strictly business from her pompadour to her Oxfords. No ex-toe-dancers or gum-chewers or crayon portrait canvassers for this." Buck claimed he knew a suitable feminine and he takes me around to see Miss Sarah Malloy. The minute I see her I am pleased. She looked to be the goods as ordered.
Sir Henry could not understand. His perplexity was reflected in the faces of Herold, the two physicians, Dr. Malloy, Miss Clarke, and Mme. Le Fabre and Charlotte spoke for them all: "Can't you explain, Mr. Watson? The woodwork had nothing whatever to do with the cellar. There was the floor between, just as you see it now." "Naturally," Watson repeated. "It could be no other place!
The ball glanced like a streak straight at Grace, took a vicious jump, and seemed to flirt with the infielder's hands, only to evade them. Malloy fouled a pitch and the ball hit Sam Wickhart square over the eye. Sam's eye popped out and assumed the proportions and color of a huge plum. "Hey!" yelled Blandy, the rival catcher. "Air you ketchin' with yer mug?"
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