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Hayne had determined that he would see Major Waldron on the coming day and begin active efforts towards the restoration of his social rights; the doctor had about decided on a new project for inducing Clancy to unbosom himself of what he knew; Captain Rayner tired of the long struggle was almost ready to welcome anything which should establish his subaltern's innocence, and was on the point of asking for six months' leave just as soon as he had arranged for Clancy's final discharge from service: he had reasons for staying at the post until that Hibernian household was fairly and squarely removed; and Mrs.
The subaltern's soliloquy was cut short by the dull glint of steel within a few inches of his chest even in the darkness all bayonets seem to possess self-contained luminosity and a voice hissed, "Who come?" Reassuring the sentries there were two at each post Wilmshurst received the report that everything was all correct.
Major Hunt having been put to bed in one of the guest-rooms of the Political Officer's house, Macdonald, with the aid of the subaltern's servant, undressed Wargrave and examined his injuries, Noreen holding a basin for him while Muriel, shuddering, carried away the blood-tinged water and brought fresh.
'Big camp at Tanai, I suppose? 'Pretty big. It has to feed our desert-column somehow. 'Is that far off? 'Between thirty and forty miles in an infernal thirsty country. 'Is the country quiet between Tanai and our men? 'More or less. I shouldn't care to cross it alone, or with a subaltern's command for the matter of that, but the scouts get through it in some extraordinary fashion.
And constantly as D'Aulnay walked from him he zealously followed. The afternoon sunlight sloped into the walls, leaving a bank of shadow behind the timbered framework, which extended an etching of itself toward the esplanade. The lengthened figures of soldiers passed also in cloudy images along the broken ground, for a subaltern's first duty had been to set guards upon the walls.
The only sound of firing was miles and miles down the line, in the direction of Poussey. The Subaltern's Platoon happened to be the second in the leading Company. Already there was movement in front, and, crawling forward to the end of the line, he climbed up the bank to take stock of the position. To the north was a little copse, the intervening ground a vegetable field.
'Coppy, shouted Wee Willie Winkie, reining up outside that subaltern's bungalow early one morning 'I want to see you, Coppy! 'Come in, young 'un, returned Coppy, who was at early breakfast in the midst of his dogs. 'What mischief have you been getting into now? Wee Willie Winkie had done nothing notoriously bad for three days, and so stood on a pinnacle of virtue.
For his Company Commander told him that he had only agreed with the Colonel's action because he believed that it would be for the subaltern's own good, not because he considered that the latter had done anything to disgrace him.
The Subaltern's Company was directly in front of the village itself; another Company to the right, the fourth in local reserve. The work of entrenchment began immediately. There was not time to construct a trench, as laid down in the Manual of Field Engineering. Each man had to scrape with his entrenching tool as big a hole as he could before the enemy came upon him.
Gerrard was thunder-struck. "You said yourself that he was so well fitted for this work. It suits him too, and no mistake." Colonel Antony frowned at the slang. "Is it possible that you perceive any good in him?" he asked coldly. "Why, sir," Gerrard was too much perturbed in mind to attempt to answer the question, "he could never go back contentedly to ordinary subaltern's work after this.
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