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Updated: May 21, 2025
For the man who escapes it, it is Providence; for the man who gets killed, it is Fate." She tried to rouse him from his sudden gravity. "And for both, it is mere chance." "If you call it that. Miss Dent " He hesitated. "Yes," she assented gravely. "It was only a chance, but a strange one," he went on, with his eyes fixed on the topmost ridge of his brown puttie.
Their putties were not soaked and not caked; say, rather, that there may have been a core of puttie inside, but that the men's legs were embedded in a serpentine cast of clay. As for their boots, you could only infer them from the huge balls of stratified mud men bore round their feet.
By the time the sun was up they were fed by their sister battalion, the 2nd, and had begun to unwind their putties. But what a sight! Their putties were not soaked and not caked; say, rather, that there may have been a core of puttie inside, but that the men's legs were imbedded in a serpentine cast of clay.
By Ethel's side, mounted on a huge khaki-colored horse, sat the man he had met, only the week before, in the driveway of the Dents' home. Scarlet with his exertions, grimly aware that his sleeve was pulled from its armhole and his left puttie was strained out of its usual compact folds, nevertheless Weldon saluted her smilingly and, his mount well in hand, galloped off in search of his squadron.
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