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Updated: June 29, 2025
There was an armed guard in the control-room of the ship. He'd watched Calhoun a good part of the previous day as Calhoun performed his mysterious work. He'd been off-duty and now was on duty again. He was bored. So long as Calhoun did not touch the control-board, though, he was uninterested. He didn't even turn his head when Maril led the way into the other cabin and slid the door shut.
They reached the strangely inclined floor of the main corridor, and, bracing themselves against the port wall, worked their way aft. Not all the admirable discipline of the Legion could prevent some confusion. Such of the men as were on duty in pilot-house, pits, wireless, or engine-room were all sticking; but a number of off-duty Legionaries were crowding into the main corridor.
My companion sat lazily watching me, dividing his attentions between cleaning his pipe and giving useless advice an admitted privilege of the off-duty man. He had been very quiet all the afternoon, engaged in re-caulking the canoe, strengthening the tent ropes, and fishing for driftwood while I slept.
To begin with, there are the President of the République and the Ministers of War and Agriculture, and Monsieur the Chief of Police a kind little man in Paris whom it is better to agree with and the préfet and the sous-préfet all the way down the line of authority to the red-faced, blustering chef de gare at Pont du Sable and Pierre. On off-duty days Pierre is my gardener at eleven sous an hour.
Stretcher-bearers this way, for God's sake!" The voices sounded as weak and futile as the squeaking of rats in a thunderstorm. When the bombardment began, all off-duty men were ordered into the deepest of the shell-proof dugouts, where they were really quite safe. But those English lads were not cowards. Orders or no orders, they came out to the rescue of their comrades.
Once a steamer anchored boldly in the bay a pert steamer with a saucy, off-duty air. Certain circumstances forewarned us of a "formal call."
She glanced around, saw several off-duty crewmembers strolling around, either singly or in pairs. "If you are certain we will not be disturbed, that is." "I'm sure," Medart said with a chuckle. He sat cross-legged, his back against the treetrunk. Corina also sat, facing him. "You had best practice defense first," she said.
My companion sat lazily watching me, dividing his attentions between cleaning his pipe and giving useless advice an admitted privilege of the off-duty man. He had been very quiet all the afternoon, engaged in re-caulking the canoe, strengthening the tent ropes, and fishing for driftwood while I slept.
Small as the incident was, it marked a change in Sidney's position in the ward. She got the worst off-duty of the day, or none. Small humiliations were hers: late meals, disagreeable duties, endless and often unnecessary tasks. Even Miss Grange, now reduced to second place, remonstrated with her senior.
Crewmen aren't allowed to have liquor aboard starships. Regulation." "Oh, but you're off-duty now!" Alan shook his head a second time; shrugging, MacIntosh took the drink himself and put the unused third glass back in the drawer. "Here's to Steve Donnell!" he said, lifting his glass high. "May he have had the good sense to register his name up here!" They drank. Alan watched.
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