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I wondered which of those would have fallen when the knitting women should count "Three." It was not difficult to prophesy. Monty, though he was as venturesome as any combatant, could never quite share the dangers of the men who lived in the trenches. His dug-out, back in the Eski Line, was safe from everything but a howitzer shell. And I ye gods!
"Don't be an idiot, Monty," he snapped. "That is, more of an idiot than you can help. Don't mind him, Gertrude; he has an amazing idea of repartee, that's all." Serena volunteered a remark concerning the weather just then. She observed that it might be raining, it had looked that way before dinner. Mr.
Then keep him covering her for they are apt to get suspicious of her and try to quiet her. She is a game and fearless girl, but she is no match for this gang." Cronin assigned one of the men immediately, and the sleuth took up a note of introduction to Helene, in which Monty explained the need for his watch. Shirley then repaired to the club house to await his dinner guest.
"Nighties?" suggested Monty, maliciously. It had been an ambition of his own to enter the Academy; but his being under age, his size and several other good reasons, including his utter want of fitness in the matter of book learning had prevented the realization of this fine dream.
It was that of Gotteland, and had he been a long-lost uncle from Australia with his pockets crammed with wills in my favour, I could not have been more delighted to see him. As I rushed forward to claim him as my own, Molly and Jack came out of the hotel. "Monty!" Jack cried, with a sincerity of joy which warmed my heart. As for his wife, she cried not at all, but merely gasped.
A still greater proportion consisted of young Second Lieutenants, who, like ourselves, were being sent out to replace the terrible losses in subalterns. "The world looks East this summer," mused Monty. Then he turned to me in a sudden, emphatic way that he had when he was going to hold forth. "But there's a thrill about it all, my lads. It means great developments where we're going to.
The corporal, seeing that the bearers stood ready at the head and foot of each stretcher, said quietly: "Bearers, raise!" All the bearers bent in simultaneous motion, and lifted the stretchers from the road. "Slow march!" The procession moved off, Monty in front picking his way between the graves towards those open to receive the day's dead.
"I guess you're right about my not havin' seen you before. If I had I wouldn't have forgot where." Monty evidently thought it his turn to be funny. "You have a good memory, haven't you, Deacon?" he observed. The captain looked at him. "That don't necessarily follow, young man," he said. "There's some things you CAN'T forget."
The Indians had set fire to the dry grass, and the flames were sweeping towards the cabin in which the cat was imprisoned. Monty took in the situation and came to a decision with the same swiftness and certainty with which he pulled the trigger. "You'll have to excuse me, boys, for a few minutes," he said, rising from his crouched attitude and throwing his rifle into the hollow of his arm.
"Katharine, you may take Montgomery over to that little table where the photograph albums are, and show them to him. You and he should be good friends, as all the Sturtevants and Maitlands have been for generations before you," said Miss Eunice, after the presentation had been made, and during which ceremony Monty had wisely refrained from speech. "Come on, then, and I'm awfully glad to see you.
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