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Each gun had six horses in three pairs, and a rider for each pair. On the guns and the gun-teams everything glittered that could glitter leather, metal, coats of horses, faces of men. Captain Resmith rode round, examining harness and equipment with a microscope that he called his eye. George rode round after him.
"Get your horse away; he's kicking mine!" said Captain Resmith impatiently to George, reflecting the general mood. And George, who was beginning to experience fatigue in the region of the knees, visited on his horse the resentment he felt at Resmith's tone. At precisely that moment some drops of rain fell.
It was plain to him that Resmith had the Major's orders to take him in tutelage and make an officer of him. But the satisfactoriness of the evening had suddenly ceased.
Among the former was Captain Resmith, the second in command, a dark man with a positive, strong voice, somewhat similar to George in appearance. Captain Resmith took George very seriously, and promised to initiate him personally into as many technical mysteries as could be compressed into one afternoon.
There was a terrific crash of wood far behind. Resmith chuckled. "One of those G.S. wagons has knocked down the Automobile Club 'Cross-Roads' sign," he said. "Good thing it wasn't a lamp-post! You see, with their eyes right, they can't look where they're going, and the whip touches up the horses, and before you can say knife they're into something. Jolly glad it's only the Am. Col.
Then a Major Tumulty, middle-aged and pale, came hurriedly into the stuffy room and said without any prologue: "Now I must have one of you chaps this afternoon. Otherwise I promise you you won't get all the things you want." Silence fell on the mess. "The C.O. isn't here, sir," said Captain Resmith. "I can't help that. I'm not going alone." "Cannon, you'd better go with Major Tumulty.
Resmith gave a scarcely perceptible smile. "Look here," he said. "I'm just going round the horse-lines. If you'll come with me I'll show you a thing or two, and we can choose a mount for you. Then after dinner if you like I'll take you through the orders for to-morrow. By the way, there's a telegram for you." The telegram read: "Girl. Everything fairly satisfactory. Don't worry too much.
The Battery, riding now stiffly 'eyes front, was halted unexpectedly in Ewell, filling the whole of the village, to the village's extreme content. Many minutes elapsed. Rumour floated down that something, was wrong in front. Captain Resmith had much inspectorial cantering to do, and George faithfully followed him for some time.
At length George said: "If you don't mind I'll stick where I am for a bit." "Tired, eh?" Resmith asked callously. "Well! I shall be if I keep on." "Dismount, my canny boy. Didn't I tell you what would happen to you? At your age " "Why! How old d'you think I am?" "Well, my canny boy, you'll never see thirty again, I suppose." "No, I shan't. Nor you either." Captain Resmith said: "I'm twenty-four."
Resmith had sent him to overlook men cutting straight branches in a wood on Park Downs, and then he had overlooked them as, with the said branches and with waterproofs laced together in pairs, they had erected sleeping shelters for the officers under the imperfect shelter of the sole tree within the precincts of the camp.
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