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If she were resolved on giving up her present assured position and Violet felt that existence with Norton would be more than ever unendurable after the exciting pleasures of Poona and Darjeeling would it not be wiser to do so for someone who could amply compensate her for the sacrifice? Love in a cottage or its Indian equivalent, a subaltern's comfortless bungalow did not appeal to her.
'They always did. 'Have you been here before, then? 'I was through most of the trouble when it first broke out. 'In the service and cashiered, was the subaltern's first thought, so he refrained from putting any questions. 'There's you man coming up with the mules. It seems rather queer 'That I should be mule-leading? said Dick. 'I didn't mean to say so, but it is.
When all was settled, Dawson went to the Commandant's quarters to be introduced to his second-in-command, and surprised there that officer endeavouring to squeeze his rather middle-aged figure within the buttoned limits of a subaltern's tunic. Since the senior officers of Marines never go to sea, the Commandant's own official uniform was the field-service khaki of a Staff officer.
It might even be that a fall of their roof, an extra inflow of water to their working, any one of the scores of troubles that hamper and hinder underground mining might stop the crawling advance of the German sappers for a day or two and allow the Subaltern's mine to play its appointed part at the appointed time of the grand attack. But meantime the Subaltern took no chances.
But this Boy the tale is as old as the Hills came out, and took all things seriously. He was pretty and was petted. He took the pettings seriously, and fretted over women not worth saddling a pony to call upon. He found his new free life in India very good. It DOES look attractive in the beginning, from a Subaltern's point of view all ponies, partners, dancing, and so on.
Hurling the empty weapon at the head of the second which the Askari avoided by adroitly stepping aside Dudley parried a bayonet-thrust with the sole weapon at his disposal, a "loaded" trench-stick. As he did so the second native closed, delivering a thrust that drove the bayonet through the left sleeve of the subaltern's tunic.
And Grumper, the splendid old chap, couldn't last very much longer. Why for many a long year he would not earn more than enough to pay his mess-bills and feed his horses. Not in England certainly.... Was he to ask Lucille to leave her luxurious home in a splendid mansion and live in a subaltern's four-roomed hut in the plains in India?
The Subaltern's revolver sights slid off the boy and hung an instant on the snarling face of the officer. . . .
"He's going to beat me at picquet now, by way of gratitude," Quita remarked, shaking out his pillows and settling him in. "Are you off anywhere, mon cher?" "Yes: to the P. I. sports. I'm one of the judges." "Then it would be quite useless to go with you. But I'll ride down, if you like." Lenox hesitated. He had seen the shadow of disappointment in his subaltern's eyes.
It conjured to the Subaltern's eyes the picture of the dainty little star who had sung it on the boards of the Coliseum. And to conclude, Madame's voice, French, and sonorously metallic, was heard in the dining-room striking up the "Marseillaise." Thus passed peacefully enough those five days the calm before the storm. The Battalion had arrived at Iron on a Sunday morning.
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