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These noises were made chiefly with klaxon horns, though an empty shell-case struck by iron was found to give out a ringing sound that could plainly be heard above even the screech and crump of the shells. Our gas-masks are quite efficient protection, and I have been a whole day under gas without injury, by keeping the cloth in my mask damp all the time.
He held up the shell-case. "If a fellow could only forget what the damned things are for!" "They are to help to end the war," said Clayton, crisply. "Don't forget that, boy." And went back to his steady dictation. Graham went out of the building into the mill yard. The noise always irritated him. He had none of Clayton's joy and understanding of it.
"Quite delicately, however," he goes on. "The Lieutenant seems to have something on his mind something heavy. I infer that he wishes to do a little inspecting." "Oh!" says I. You see, along late in the summer, one of our Wall Street men had copped out a whalin' big shell-case contract for us, gayly ignorin' the fact that this was clean out of our line.
He said, "How do you do?" and bade them be seated, and when they exclaimed, aghast at his being still in Ypres, he replied that he was paralysed and couldn't move, but that he knew God would send someone to take him away; and he smiled gently at them, and was taken away in their ambulance. Madame gave me a shell-case, and asked Mr. Thompson if he would bring in his large piece to show us.
"You shall have enough partridges to fill your larder for a month," I heard him tell Suzette, and he did not forget to pat her rosy cheek in passing. Suzette laughed and struggled by him, her firm young arms hugging my gun and shell-case. Before I could stop him, the curé, in his black soutane, had clambered nimbly to the roof of the big car and was lashing my traps next to Tanrade's and his own.
Then dull concussions arrived from heaven, and right overhead I made out two German 'planes. A shell-case banged the pavé and went on to make a white scar on a wall. Some invisible things were whizzing about. One's own shrapnel can be tactless.
He had secured a shell-case by the naval commander's bounty. 'They make such splendid trophies, he told me. But I did not covet one much. I thought of how such war trophies were in demand for Christmas decoration vases in a church by the lakeside. I also thought of the quite possible horror and havoc of shattered askaris' bodies that those splendid trophies might be supposed to have wrought.
Two German time-fuses with fetishistic-looking brass heads. A clip of German cartridges with the bullets villainously reversed. A copper loving-cup i.e., an empty shell-case presented to me with a florid speech by Major S on behalf of the th Battery of the R.F.A.
The smoking brass shell-case is out of Archibald's steel throat, and another shell-case with its charge slipped into place and started on its way before the first puff breaks. The aviator knows what is coming. He knows that one means many, once he is in range. Archibald rushes the fighting; it is the business of the Taube to side- step.
"Because of that!" He pointed, without intentional drama, at the shell-case. "I can't make those shells for you, Mr. Spencer, and me a German." "You're an American, aren't you?" "I am, sir. It is not that. It iss that I " His face worked. He had dropped back to the old idiom, after years of painful struggle to abandon it. "It iss that I am a German, also. I have people there, in the war.
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