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Updated: June 18, 2025


It was only fit and proper that she should magnify her first real commission. No veteran soldier ever donned a field marshal's uniform with the same zest that he displayed when his subaltern's outfit came from the tailor.

Darkness fell so suddenly that the Company Commanders had the greatest difficulty in selecting good positions. Eventually the Subaltern's Platoon was placed astride a sunken lane, along the edge of an orchard. The position was a happy one, and since the hedge that stretched along its front was thick and about ten feet high, it seemed safe from surprise.

They were not allowed to follow up this easy success, and consequently the enemy was still left in possession of a small salient. The Subaltern's own Company was then sent to prolong the right of the Battalion, and to get in touch with the "people" on the right. This was eventually done; the "people" proving to be a regiment of cavalry, employed as infantry.

For an instant the Subaltern's blood froze. The figure of the German was only separated from him by a bare three yards, and to his dark-blinded eyes it seemed that he himself was standing in plain view in a brilliant blaze of light. Actually he was in almost complete darkness.

But when you have tested them and they have tested you, you know that you have that which is stronger than any terror of night or day, a loyalty which nothing can shake. And then when he thinks how little he deserves all this love and loyalty, the subaltern's heart aches with a feeling that can find no expression either in word or deed.

'His pay is a matter of importance to him. You are aware of the smallness of a subaltern's pay. 'I, said the General, 'I say I feel my poor half-pay, having always been a working soldier myself, very important, I was saying, very important to me! 'Why did you retire? Her interest in him seemed promising.

They walked away, hand in hand, incredulous, tremulous, bewildered by the beauty and wonder and glory of Life. Alas! As they passed the Lodge and entered the dark avenue, Dam found his tongue. "Must tell Grumper," he said. Nothing mattered since Lucille loved him like that. She'd be happier in the subaltern's hut in the plains of India than in a palace. If Grumper didn't like it, he must lump it.

After lunch all went to inspect the heap of slain boars laid on the ground in the shade of a hut. Wargrave's kill had been added to it. Much to the subaltern's delight its tusk proved to be the longest and finest of all; and he was warmly congratulated by the more experienced pigstickers on his success.

The Indian officer at his side answered in a low voice: "It is Ashraf Khan crying out in pain, Sahib. He is not yet dead." "Subhedar sahib, come with me," said Wargrave. We don't know yet if the missing sentry did the deed." The sight that met the subaltern's eyes was one that he was not easily to forget.

I've only been twenty years in the regiment, and my revered parent he was a simple squire. There's no getting at the bottom of a Bhil's mind. Now, why is the superior bearer that young Chinn brought with him fleeing across country with his bundle?" He stepped into the verandah, and shouted after the man a typical new-joined subaltern's servant who speaks English and cheats in proportion.

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