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"Oku's coming," he grinned. "You didn't get wet?" laughed Virginia. "Not while I have my voice. I stood at the door and shouted to him. Here he is now." The door was pushed open and the Japanese butler entered carrying a fur coat which he gave to his master. The millionaire turned to him. "Oku, Mrs. Stafford has finished her visit to her sister and is coming home."
And a few of them actually contrived to accomplish their purpose before they died, although the damage which they were able to do was quite incommensurate with the frightful sacrifice of life which it cost. In accordance with Oku's plan, the main body of the stormers followed closely upon the heels of the volunteer wire-cutters.
To have incurred such tremendous losses for such insignificant results was a terribly depressing experience for Japan; but the benumbing effect of the blow began to pass away when, in the first week of November, the news arrived of General Oku's splendid success upon the Shaho; and with renewed hope, and that indomitable patience and courage which is so marked a feature of Japanese character, the troops before Port Arthur set to work to repair their disasters.
That evening, about half an hour before sunset, the transhipment of the materials for the boom having been effected, the transports containing Oku's Second Army got their anchors and started for Pi-tse-wo, escorted by a portion of the fleet under Togo, while the remaining portion, consisting of the light, fast cruisers and a detachment of destroyers, proceeded to Port Arthur, to make assurance doubly sure by keeping an eye upon the Russian ships there.
As it is we will have wasted six months. Love to Dad, and Chas and Nora and you. In writing of his decision to leave the Japanese army, Richard, after his return to the United States, said: "On the receipt of Oku's answer to the Correspondents we left the army.
"Not on your life," interrupted the other with a grimace. "Japs and Chinks eat all kinds of freak things nightingale tongues and such stuff. No thanks. Your Oku's a decent little sort, as Jap butlers go, but when it comes to cooking, give me Christian food and a French chef every time." Stafford laughed heartily. "Fred my boy you're shockingly provincial and bourgeois.
As soon as it became evident that fighting was over for the day by which time it had become too dark for me to signal to our squadron in the offing I made my way down the hillside to the spot where the headquarters staff was established and, seeking General Oku's tent, entered and reported myself.
But just now his thoughts were not so much on her as on her brother-in-law. "Oku's a good boy," he hiccoughed. "A very good boy. But he isn't half as funny as Jimmie. It's worth twice Jimmie's salary just to have him around to make me laugh. How he does make me laugh! He doesn't know that I'm laughing at him, but I know it. That's what makes it so funny "
On the receipt of Oku's answer to the correspondents, Mr. John Fox, Jr., of Scribner's Magazine, Mr. Milton Prior, of the London Illustrated News, Mr. George Lynch, of the London Morning Chronicle, and myself left the army. We were very sorry to go. Apart from the fact that we had not been allowed to see anything of the military operations, we were enjoying ourselves immensely.
We were hard at work upon the boom again when, during the afternoon of the following day, our battle fleet returned from Pi-tse-wo, after covering the landing of General Oku's army.
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