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"Left alone in the room at all?" "The electric light man was here for a few minutes, sir." The master and servant exchanged quick glances. The latter was looking pale and nervous. "Is anything missing, sir?" he asked. "Yes!" Granet replied. "Did you notice the gentleman who called last evening Surgeon-Major Thomson?" "Yes, sir!" "You haven't seen him since? He hasn't been here?" "No, sir!"
Somehow or other he must have been on my track ever since. I took no notice of it. I thought it was simply because because he was engaged to Geraldine Conyers." "You are rivals in love, too, eh?" Sir Alfred remarked. "Geraldine Conyers is the girl I want to marry," Granet admitted. "Thomson," Sir Alfred murmured to himself, "Surgeon-Major Hugh Thomson.
Surgeon-Major Thomson had apparently forgotten his appointment to view camp bedsteads, for, a few minutes after he had left Geraldine and her brother, his taxicab set him down before a sombre-looking house in Adelphi Terrace. He passed through the open doorway, up two flights of stairs, drew a key of somewhat peculiar shape from his pocket and opened a door in front of him.
The Sergeant-Major was right. 'Not going out this journey, gasped Bobby, as he was lifted from the doolie. 'Not going out this journey. Then with an air of supreme conviction 'I can't, you see. 'Not if I can do anything! said the Surgeon-Major, who had hastened over from the mess where he had been dining. He and the Regimental Surgeon fought together with Death for the life of Bobby Wick.
"The surgeon-major looked about him cautiously, as if to make sure who were his audience, and being satisfied that no Spaniard was within hearing, he said: "'We are none but Frenchmen then, with pleasure, Colonel Hulot. About six days since, I was quietly going home, at about eleven at night, after leaving General Montcornet, whose hotel is but a few yards from mine.
'The waiting-woman' it is the surgeon-major who is speaking," the narrator went on "'led me along the gravel walks of a large garden, till at a certain spot she stopped. From the louder sound of our footsteps, I concluded that we were close to the house. "Now silence!" said she in a whisper, "and mind what you are about.
Then we went through the list, and came across poor Baird's name among the killed. This was the first we had heard of it, the natives all declaring that it was Gurdon who had been killed. Among the wounded we came across Surgeon-Major Robertson severely and Captain Campbell severely.
Surgeon-Major Thomson's silence was scarcely a hesitation. He was standing perfectly still, his eyes fixed upon the young soldier. "At present," he said, "I am not quite clear about that. If you are ready, Geraldine?" She nodded and they made their farewells to Lady Anselman. Granet looked after them with a slight frown. He drew his aunt on one side for a moment.
You can always see him behind his stolen mask. The actress takes a different rank. This one does, anyway." "You're mixing her up with the apes and the monkeys," remarked Surgeon-Major Livingstone. "Mere imitators!" cried Mrs. Barberry. Alicia did not allow the argument to pursue her. She smiled upon their energy and, so to speak, disappeared.
One of the British officers of the garrison beneath the gun tower, which was set on fire, and during the extinguishing of which Surgeon-Major Robertson, the British agent, was wounded by a Snider bullet. There is also the loophole, afterwards made, from which a sentry inside the tower could fire at anyone within a few feet.
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