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In a hollow of the pavement had gathered a pool from the drip of the neglected gutters, and out of its hidden depth the staring round looked at him. It was the third time Tommy's nerves had been shaken that night, and he could stand no more. At the awful vision he turned and fled, fell, and rose and fled again.
His two mates joked with him, swore at him, tried all kinds of clumsy inducements to make him revert to his ordinary saturnine and entertaining mode of conversation; but he would not be tempted from his silence. Towards evening a chill blast struck off from the shore, and Mary's Jem, who was Tommy's mate, said "My man, we'll have the white horses in half a minute!"
This had made an overpowering impression on Martin, who for mouths afterwards would stand waiting at the gate until Tommy was going by, and then say: "Been to the North Pole to-day, Tommy?" Whereupon Tommy's "starboard eye" would blink and he would answer: "Not to-day boy. I don't go to the North Pole more nor twice a day now."
"Strange, he never told me about it," said Bax. "'Cause I told him to hold his tongue," replied Jeph, "and Tommy's a good fellow and knows how to shut his mouth w'en a friend asks him to as I now ask you, Bax, for I don't want people know that I come here every night." "What! do you come here every night?" cried Bax in surprise.
He wondered if he had a wife and five children; if he ever thought of running away from them; what he would think of a man who did; what most people would think; what she would think. She! ah, she had it all to find out yet. "There's no place like home," said Tommy's little fiddle, "O, no place like home."
Elspeth being his sister But he had promised Grizel, and she had been so ill brought up that she said nasty things when you broke your word. The gold packet was bought. That is it sticking out of Tommy's inside pocket. The girls saw it and knew what was troubling him, but not a word was spoken now between the three.
She steered him up against that knowing his one weakness?" "My dear sir, how could she realize?" "He told me she knew." "But the communion wine!" "Communion alcohol! Alcohol is alcohol, I don't care whether it's in a saloon or a church or pickling snakes in a museum. I tell you, Tommy's case has made a prohibition crank of me. Talk about it's being a man's lack of will and moral strength bah!
Tommy's forecast of the war's ending had fallen short as so many other forecasts did. The war went on, developing its own particular horrors as it spread.
"Aren't you going to work them?" He cast a longing look over the flat-topped summit. "Dad says we'd be foolish to go on with them!" replied Enid. "If we were going to be out here to look after the work it would be different." "Will you sell them?" Tommy's eager face expressed more than the simple question. Tommy wanted those claims. "You can have them, Tommy!" began Enid.
His life is simplified to two principal motives, i.e., keeping alive himself and killing the other fellow. The question uppermost in his mind every time and all of the time, is, "When do we eat?" In the trenches the backbone of Tommy's diet is bully beef, "Maconochie's Ration", cheese, bread or biscuit, jam, and tea.
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