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Updated: May 28, 2025
We're lucky to be no worse off, and probably I'm especially lucky in not having been sandbagged by the man who dealt with you. He would probably have closed my account, for he must have hit you a tremendous blow. I had come to myself before the man and woman brought you brandy. I just moved to show I wasn't dead and watched them." "You'll know them again." "They both wore masks.
They were mostly new and appeared to be only laid on the mud without any foundation. The few dug-outs I saw were incomplete, the trenches rather wet and shallow and not yet sandbagged. Although the firing had died down it continued sufficiently to enable me to keep my direction.
In other ports, like San Francisco, where the boarding master's will was the law of sailortown, the captain paid over his blood money, and the boarding master delivered him his crew, drunk, drugged and sandbagged.
Beyond the fortified Hanlin courtyards, to the north of the British Legation courtyards, which had been occupied and heavily sandbagged after the big fires there, so as to keep the enemy at a safe distance the mass of ruins were indeed as silent and as deserted as a graveyard.
Of course, he resumed control as soon as he reached home, and his next move was to have me quietly sandbagged while he froze my father out. But father did not transfer the patents, for the simple reason that he couldn't. They are my personal property, made over to me before the firm of Gordon and Gordon came into existence." The pipe-trust promoter nodded.
Some go to the fire-trench, others to the machine-guns, others again to observation posts or O.P.'s whence a hawk-eyed Forward Observing Officer, peering all day through a chink in a tumble-down chimney or sandbagged loophole, is sometimes enabled to flash back the intelligence that he can discern transport upon such a road in rear of the Boche trenches, and will such a battery kindly attend to the matter at once?
"I hope you don't want to go and see respectable boys maimed and killed, and knocked down and dragged out, and sandbagged, and brained. I have seen a bull fight in Mexico, but I never want to see anything as bloody as a football game," and the old man winked to himself, and filled the pipe. "Oh, what you giving me?" said the boy, jumping up in indignation.
The Germans brought up a trench-mortar next and flung noisy and nerve-wrecking high-explosive bombs into and all round the ruin, bursting down all the remaining walls except the sandbagged one and scoring a few more casualties until the forward trench installed a trench-mortar of their own, and by a generous return of two bombs to the enemy's one put the German out of action.
"Well, I'm tellin' ye they'll get ye sure it'll be th' water or a forty-four bullet, or a blackjack or a knife but you'll get it one way or another!" "Sounds cheering!" "An' it ain't over-pleasant t' be sandbagged." "No, Spider." "Nor t' feel a lead pipe wrapped round th' back o' y'r bean." "No indeed, Spider." "Nor yet t' feel a stiletta diggin' between y'r shoulders or over y'r collar bone."
He received word at last of the day and hour appointed for the explosion, and had the honour of a visit of inspection from a very superior officer who pored long and painstakingly over the paper plans, put a great many questions, even went the length of walking down the communication trench and peering down the entrance shaft, and looking over the sandbagged wall through a periscope at the section of German trench marked down for destruction.
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