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Of course I'd seen the nonsense about their not salutin' the officers and all that, but I didn't think any fellers alive would be such dam fools.... I might have known better." He let himself into the flat and found there a death-like stillness no one about and no sound except the tickings of the large clock in the drawing-room.
"'I'm a dishgraced man! sez the little orf'cer bhoy. "Put me undher arrest, sorr, if you will, but by my sowl, I'd do ut again sooner than face your mother wid you dead, sez the Sargint that had sat on his head, standin' to attention an' salutin'. But the young wan only cried as tho' his little heart was breakin'. "Thin another man av the Tyrone came up, wid the fog av fightin' on him."
Fin'lly he sends for Piddie. They confabbed for a while, and as Piddie comes out he's still explainin' how he's sure he don't know, but most likely Mr. Robert understands all about it. "Hang what Robert understands!" snaps Old Hickory. "He isn't here, is he? And I want to know now. Torchy, come in here!" "Yes, Sir," says I, scentin' trouble and salutin' respectful.
"I'm a dishgraced man!" sez the little orf'cer bhoy. "Put me undher arrest, Sorr, if you will, but, by my sowl, I'd do ut again sooner than face your mother wid you dead," sez the Sargint that had sat on his head, standin' to attention an' salutin'. But the young wan only cried as tho' his little heart was breakin'. 'Thin another man av the Tyrone came up, wid the fog av fightin' on him.
"As soon as it was dark, and he'd had a bit of a snooze, him and thirty Sikhs went down through the staircase in the tower, every mother's son of 'em salutin' little Everett where It stood propped up against the wall.
I appear Battersleigh, a gintleman, appears, standin' in the dure, the eyes of all upon him. I bow, salutin', standin' there, alone, short on allowance, but nate and with me own silf-respect. Battersleigh, a bit low in kit and in allowance, with white at neck and wrist, bows, and he says, 'Ladies and gintlemen, Battersleigh is here!"
"A week Wednesday, eh?" says Miss Casey. "Say, ain't that grand! And believe muh, I mean to work up some little party for Stubby. It's due him, and the old lady." "Of course it is," agrees Vee. "And Torchy, you must do all you can to help." "Very well, major," says I, salutin'. And from then on I reports to Vee. It's only the next night that I gives her the first bulletin from the front.
"'I defer to th' ar-rmy whose honor is beyond reproach, says th' polisman, 'or recognition, he says. 'Veev l'army! he says. "'Thank ye, says Gin'ral Bellow, salutin'. 'I will do me jooty. Man can do no more, he says. 'Jools, he says, 'surrinder, he says. 'Ye cannot longer hol' out, he says. 'Ye have provisions on'y f'r eight years.
There was method in his motions, for when he would cease, the small red-and-white flag on the cruiser's bridge would answer, waving to the right and left, and up and down. A secondary gun spoke from a midship sponson, and Captain Bacon exclaimed enthusiastically, "Salutin' the flag," and again dipped his ensign.
"As that seems to be your specialty," says he, "perhaps you had better." "Yes, sir; thank you, sir," says I, salutin'. Then I turns to Vee. "Seen Auntie this morning?" I asks. "Why, no," says Vee. "I was up rather early, you know." "Not so early as she was," says I. "What do you think she's done? Jumped in on that treasure hunt I was tellin' you of.
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