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Chrisfield closed the door carefully, and turned to Andrews with a smile. "Ah was right smart 'askeered ye wouldn't find it, Andy." "So this is where you live?" "Um hum, a bunch of us lives here." A wide bed without coverings, where a man in olive-drab slept rolled in a blanket, was the only furniture of the room. "Three of us sleeps in that bed," said Chrisfield.
A dreamy look on the face of the girl stenographer. Jock interpreted it. He knew that the stenographer was in the chair at the side of his desk, taking his dictation accurately and swiftly, while the spirit of the girl herself was far and away at Camp Grant at Rockford, Illinois, with an olive-drab unit in an olive-drab world.
When coats are not worn with the service uniform olive-drab shirts are prescribed. Suspenders must never be worn exposed to view. Never appear in breeches without leggings. Leather leggings should be kept polished. Canvas leggings should be scrubbed when dirty. The overcoat when worn must be buttoned throughout and the collar hooked. When the belt is worn it will be worn outside the overcoat.
He was just returning to sit by his chum when the nattiest, sprucest- looking soldier imaginable, wearing the olive-drab fatigue uniform of the Army and overcoat to match, stepped into the room. "The surgeons have directed me to bring down all the candidates who are through here," the orderly announced.
Indeed he was an important-looking individual who greeted the freight outfit of Jerkline Jo when it came to a weary halt at the foot of the desert buttes. He wore a new olive-drab suit, composed of Norfolk jacket and bellows breeches, an imposing Columbia-shape Stetson, and shiny new russet-leather puttees.
Anthony March had taken off the ill-fitting khaki blouse and the sleeves of his olive-drab uniform shirt were rolled up above the elbows. He was sitting sidewise on the piano bench, his left hand on the keyboard, his right making imperceptible changes in the tension of one of the strings.
He wore a light-gray, soft shirt made of French flannel, a dark-blue silk scarf, leather chaps over olive-drab khaki trousers, black, hand-sewed riding boots which displayed their polish despite a coating of fine dust, silver spurs, and, strapped to his right thigh, was a worn leather holster, natural color, from which protruded the black butt of a six-gun.
"But the colonel said it had to go in." "Can't help it.... Too late," said the regimental sergeant-major. Andrews felt the room and the men in their olive-drab shirt sleeves at the typewriters and the three nymphs creeping from behind the French War Loan poster whirl round his head. Suddenly he heard a voice behind him: "Is the name Andrews, John, Sarge?"
Last night there were two young kids in uniform right down in the first row, centre, right. I'll bet the oldest wasn't twenty-three. There they sat, looking up at me with their baby faces. That's all they are. Kids. The house seems to be peppered with 'em. You wouldn't think olive-drab could stick out the way it does. I can see it farther than red. I can see it day and night.
She glanced at the cross on his olive-drab coat. "Of course not! How absurd, Jeffery! But how did Sybil ever stand it? How did she live through it? I mean the parting, the months of suspense, word that you were missing, then mortally wounded?... Her brother killed by gas?" Latham glanced at his wife, a soft light in his eyes. "Poor Sybil," he replied. "She was a brick, Evelyn a perfect brick.
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