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Updated: June 17, 2025
Foreseeing pressing necessity, the hungry man put his hands in his pockets as usual, but was astonished to learn from the orderly's emphatic gestures that he did not wish any money. "Nein. . . . Nein!" What generosity was this! . . . The German persisted in his negatives. His enormous mouth expanded in an ingratiating grin as he laid his heavy paws on Marcelo's shoulders.
Early in the morning he asked her to bring him a hand mirror and, surveying his face, tortured and disfigured by the orderly's shaving, suffered an acute wound in his vanity. He was glad it had been dark or she probably would not have He borrowed a razor from the interne and proceeded to enjoy himself.
I was told to carry trays from a ward where I had never been before just to carry trays, orderly's work, no more. No. 22 was lying flat on his back, his knees drawn up under him, the sheets up to his chin; his flat, chalk-white face tilted at the ceiling. As I bent over to get his untouched tray his tortured brown eyes fell on me. "I'm in pain, Sister," he said.
The perishing temperature of the cabin, however, was sufficient justification for the orderly's conduct, and by a little skillful manipulation he soon succeeded in getting up a tolerable fire. The visitors having taken what seats they could, Hakkabut closed the door, and, like a prisoner awaiting his sentence, stood with folded hands, expecting the captain to speak.
Besides these ships, no other vessel had skirted the buoys of the bay in eight long smiling months. Mr. Clarges, the secretary, with an effort to appear calm, and the orderly, suffocated with the news, entered through separate doors at the same instant. The secretary filed his report first. "A yacht's just anchored in the bay, Sir Charles," he said. The orderly's face fell. He looked aggrieved.
Steele, after the both of us were wounded by those black devils in India and retired from active service." The servant's voice had an inquiring accent; his glance rested now in some surprise on the new-comer's garments, a gamekeeper's well-worn coat and cap, and on the dusty, almost shabby-looking shoes. "A wager," said John Steele, noting the old orderly's expression.
Shorty took the small white envelope from the Orderly's hand, and looked at it curiously. Who could it be from? It resembled somewhat the letters that once came from Bad Ax, Wis., but then again it was very different. He studied the handwriting, which was entirely strange to him.
He received the information of Arnold's treachery with the same apparent indifference that he would an orderly's report; and with the same indifference of manner signed the death-warrant of Andre. "This indifference was marked with a natural sternness, which forbid all familiarity to all men.
I sat forward, straining my eyes in the darkness along that narrow quay, on the look-out for the many holes I knew were only too surely there. The journey seemed to take hours, and I answered a query of the orderly's as to the distance. The boy heard my voice and mistook me for one of the Sisters, and then followed one of the most trying half-hours I have ever been through.
With pain and difficulty, and leaning on his orderly's arm, he reached the battery commanded by Captain McGruder, where he found the horse of Lieutenant Johnson, who had just before received a mortal wound. In compliance with his wishes, he was assisted into the saddle; and, in answer to a remark that he would be unable to keep his seat, "Then," said the general, "you must tie me on."
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