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Mulledwiney looked around with affected concern. "Save us! But we've cleaned out the Jungle! Sure, there's not a baste left but ourselves!" It was true. The watering-place was empty. Moo Kow, Miaow, and the Gee Gees had disappeared. Presently there was a booming crash and a long, deep rumbling among the distant hills.
When I returned to Simla I told Mrs. Awksby of my discoveries, and spoke of the armchair. I fancied she colored slightly, but quickly recovered. "Dear old Sparkley," she said sweetly; "he WAS a champion liar!" I had not seen Mulledwiney for several days. Knowing the man this looked bad. So I dropped in on the Colonel. I found him in deep thought.
"You must excuse me," she said faintly. "I am taken this way sometimes and I have left my salts at home. Thanks! I can get down myself!" The next moment she had disappeared, but was heard coughing in the distance. Mulledwiney winked at his companions and continued his story: "Wid that we wor in the thick av the foight. Whin I say 'thick' I mane it, sorr!
I gasped, "you touched absolutely TOUCHED Mulledwiney?" "Yes," he said hurriedly, "I knew what you would say; it was against the Queen's Regulations and there was his sensitive nature which shrinks from even a harsh word; but I did it, and of course he has me in his power." "And you have touched him?" I repeated, "touched his private honor!" "Yes! But I shall atone for it!
But what wid the blud gettin' into me ois, I was blinded, and the pressure kept incraysin' until me arrums was thrussed like a fowl to me sides, and sorra a bit cud I move but me jaws!" "And bloomin' well you knew how to use them," said Otherwise. "Thrue for you though ye don't mane it!" said Mulledwiney, playfully tapping Otherwise on the head with a decanter till the cut glass slowly shivered.
The three soldiers seated themselves in the pool. "They are going to tell awful war stories now," said the Moo Kow, "stories that are large and strong! Some people are shocked others like 'em." Then he that was called Mulledwiney told a story. In the middle of it Miaow got up from the limb of the tree, coughed slightly, and put her paw delicately over her mouth.
The second is Otherwise, who is dragging a small garden engine, of which he has despoiled a native gardener, whom he has felled with a single blow. The third is Mulledwiney, swinging a cut-glass decanter of sherry which he has just snatched from the table of his colonel. Mulledwiney and Otherwise will play the engine upon Bleareyed, who is suffering from heat apoplexy and djim-djams."
This looked bad, too, for old Cockey Wax as he was known to everybody in the Hill districts but himself wasn't given to thinking. I guessed the cause and told him so. "Yes," he said wearily, "you are right! It's the old story. Mulledwiney, Bleareyed, and Otherwise are at it again, drink followed by Clink.
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