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Updated: May 2, 2025
Anyway I want him to see all the fighting that's going. If the Germans want give and take in this business they can have it. They'll soon see who can stand it best. I told William when he left. I said, 'William, we've got to show these fellows that man for man we're a match for them. That's the way I look at it, man for man." I watched Mr. Spugg's massive face as he went on with his meal.
We've both telegraphed him to stick it out." The news was the chief topic in the club that day. "Spugg's gardener has been torpedoed," they said, "but Spugg refuses to have him quit and come home." "Well done, Spugg," said everybody. After that we had news from time to time about both William and Henry. "Henry's out of the hospital," said Spugg. "I hope to have him back in France in a few days.
Spugg's chauffeur, Henry, went overseas. He was reported first as in England. Next he was right at the front, at the very firing itself. We knew then, everybody in the club knew that Mr. Spugg's chauffeur might be killed at any moment. But great as the strain must have been, Spugg went up and down to his office and in and out of the club without a tremor.
"His chauffeur's been gassed." "How is he taking it?" "Fine. He's sending off his gardener to take the chauffeur's place." So that was Mr. Spugg's answer to the Germans. We lunched together that day. "Yes," he said, "Henry's gassed. How it happened I don't know. He must have come down out of the air. I told him I wanted him in the air. But let it pass. It's done now."
"He's sending over Meadows, HIS OWN MAN!" There was no need to comment on it. The cool courage of the thing spoke for itself. Meadows, Spugg's own man, his house valet, without whom he never travelled twenty miles! "What else was there to do?" said Mr. Spugg when I asked him if it was true that Meadows was going.
The Germans have caught them both. I suppose I shan't have either of them back now till the war is all over." He gave a slight sigh, the only sign of complaint that ever I had heard come from him. But the next day we learned what was Spugg's answer to the German's capture of William and Henry. "Have you heard what Spugg is doing?" the members of the club asked one another. "What?"
Then he added, as an afterthought, "They may never come back." From that day on, Mr. Spugg, with his French medal on his watch chain, was the most conspicuous figure in the club. He was pointed out as having done more than any other one man in the institution to keep the flag flying. But presently the limit of Mr. Spugg's efforts and sacrifices was reached.
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