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Updated: May 15, 2025
So Sir Munion Boomer-Platt went off and called on Sergeant Cane. Mrs Cane knew what he had come for. ``Don't let him talk you over, Bill, she said. ``Not he, said Sergeant Cane. Sir Munion came on Sergeant Cane in his garden. ``A fine day, said Sir Munion. And from that he went on to the war. ``If you enlist, he said, ``they will make you a sergeant again at once.
Sir Munion really did wish it, as he spoke, for his own words stirred him profoundly; but somehow or other they did not stir Sergeant Cane. No, he had done his share, and he had a family to look after. Sir Munion could not understand him: he went back to the Big House and said so.
He was a little rallying point for men who did not want to go. ``He knows what it's like, they said. In the smoking room of the Big House sat the Squire and his son, Arthur Smith; and Sir Munion Boomer-Platt, the Member for the division. The Squire's son had been in the last war as a boy, and like Sergeant Cane had left the army since.
You will get a sergeant's pay, and your wife will get the new separation allowance. ``Sooner have Cane, said Mrs Cane. ``Yes, yes, of course, said Sir Munion. ``But then there is the medal, probably two or three medals, and the glory of it, and it is such a splendid life. Sir Munion did warm to a thing whenever he began to hear his own words.
He had told him all the advantages he could think of that were there to be had for the asking, and Sergeant Cane merely neglected them. ``Let me have a try, said Arthur Smith. ``He soldiered with me before. Sir Munion shrugged his shoulders. He had all the advantages at his fingers' ends, from pay to billeting: there was nothing more to be said. Nevertheless young Smith went.
All the morning he had been cursing an imaginary general, seated in the War Office at an imaginary desk with Smith's own letter before him, in full view but unopened. Why on earth didn't he answer it, Smith thought. But he was calmer now, and the Squire and Sir Munion were talking of Sergeant Cane. ``Leave him to me, said Sir Munion. ``Very well, said the Squire.
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