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But perhaps I should have sent Pauline?" I assured her I was pleased to see her and hastened to express concern for her father. "Oh, it's not him at all, really," she said. "It's Mama. She's all bothered about Joe." I lowered my voice respectfully and said I was sure Mrs Thario was overcome with grief and perhaps I had better not intrude at such a time. "Poo!" dissented Winifred.
There was no will to victory, and the generalstaff, if one could believe General Thario, was too unimaginative and inflexible to meet the peculiar conditions of a war circumscribed and shaped by the alien glacier dividing the country and diverting normal operations into novel channels.
The demand for enduring woods replaced the market for green pine and men planned homes to accommodate their greatgrandchildren and not to attract prospective buyers before the plaster cracked. Naturally, forwardlooking men like Stuart Thario and myself, though we had every respect for culture, were not swamped by this sudden urge to encourage the effervescent side of life.
Heeding the cabled importunities of Stuart Thario I risked my life to travel once more into the interior to see Joe and persuade him to come back with me. I found them in a small Pennsylvania town in the Alleghenies, once a company owned miningvillage.
By its very nature the expedition was composed exclusively of infantry divisions carrying the latest type of automatic rifle. The field commissaries, the ambulances, the baggagetrains, had to be cut to the barest minimum and General Thario wrote that evidently because of the impossibility of taking along artillery the enemy had also abandoned their light and heavy machineguns.
Though Ireton remained successfully concealed, the Hannibal leaked out and when, during the World War, I had the misfortune to lead a company which was decimated" his hand strayed to the ribbons on his chest "behind my back the enlistedmen called me Cannibal Thario." He began discussing another drink. "Of one thing I'm resolved: my son shall not suffer as I have suffered.
But while pessimism and lassitude governed the United States the intruders were taking energetic measures to increase their successes. "I have been present at the questioning of two spies," reported General Thario, "and I want to tell you the enemy is not going to miss a single opportunity, unlike ourselves.
I was partially relieved from my uneasiness by the appearance of George Thario, who bounded in, waved lightly at his sisters and kissed his mother just below her hairline. "My respectful duty, Mama," he greeted. "Damned hypocrisy. You did your duty youd be in the army." "Bloodpressure," warned Constance. "Have they made you thoroughly miserable, Mr Weener?
I must say, though somewhat startled by his manner of imbibing, I was inclined to like General Thario, but I was impatient to discuss the matter of a contract for Consolidated Pemmican. Every time I attempted to bring the subject round to it he waved me grandly aside. "Dinner," he confirmed, when the waiters brought in their trays.
Do you think me some whimpering broompusher to weep at the loss of a son on the battlefield?" Stuart Thario put his hand on her arm. "Easy ... bloodpressure ... no excitement." "Not in regimentals," said Mama, and relapsed into silence. We had a very uneasy dinner, during which we were unable to discuss business owing to the presence of the ladies.
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