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THE MAN IN THE
EMPTY CHAIR KING'S
(Continued from page 7.)
dinner for four."
Well, we got over the top and bled, and there was a touch of an- started, but we hadn't been wiring noyance in his volco. "I ordered many seconds before a Verey light went up and we were caught in the glare. We stood as still as death, but a machine-gun, traversing, sent
"Five was the order, I think, sir." "No-four. I distinctly ordered dinner for four-I came in myself
us diving for a shell-hole. Too late. and arranged about it weeks ago." Three of us were laid out-fortun- "Beg pardon, sir, but I'll just see And downstairs ately only "blighties"-I was the the manager." luckiest of the three-and Nobby again he pottered. and Bennett missed it altogether. We stood looking at each other They carried on. The three of us till the manager arrived-olly and managed to crawl back alright, and full of apologica. It was a mistake. spent the next few hours in the He had so many dinners, he was "Arst aid," waiting to be sent down puzzled to know where to put all his customers, etc., but the fifth to the clearing station.
It was there that we heard Nobby cover should be clearned away at once. He began collecting the had gone west.
They'd stuck it out, finished the superfluous cutlery when Janaon job, an we were in communication stopped-him.
"Let's leave the extra place," be again. It was a wonderfully placky bit of work, for they must have bad suggested with impulsive enthus- a hellish time, but as they were inam. "It's rather a nice thought) dropping back into the line again don't you think, Fielding?-a Nobby stopped the best part of a little remembrance to Nobby." Minnie-a trench mortar, you know. The idea spread like gun-cotton- Bennett was luckler; just caught a touched our sentiment. So we left little piece-that accounts for his the place, and Janson rearranged the knives and forks. Then we left ear.
He joined us at the base, and it pushed the chair up to the table so was while we were all comfortably that it made a vacant space between} in hospital in Blighty that we four Bennett and myself.
"Now what about this fizz?" ask- planned to meet and have a dinner
together on the first thirteenth ofled Bennett, suddenly recovering
himself. June
Fielding after Armistice. volunteered to undertake all the ar-
We filled our, glisses and stood up.
rangements, being a Londoner, und It was a round table.
he took our names and addresses.
"To Nobby," said Fielding, in a
But when we were fit again, they strong voice, as we held our glasses split us up. I went out East, and toward the vacant chair before wel JJanson and Fielding I lost alght drained them.
Luf. Bennett I believe, never went
Then we Bat down, and as the
The table was decorated with
out ag in: get promotion and be dinner proceeded, gradually regain- came an instructor at one of thejed our good spirits. training-camps.
Some time after, a decoration blue and white, and lit with tiny came along. Bennett got the D.C.M.,lamps of remembrance pattern-one and the job that had been done. well at each place. Fielding put a match deserved it.
Now for the aequel.
I'd forgotten the whole business until Fielding wrote some time in
to them just before we sat down.
But the one at Nobby's place wasn't lighted. Remember that.
I don't suppose you've ever seen It's ENCY
Mon, 6th Feb, 1933 April, 1919, and reminded me. He asignaller's shutter.
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Shut up and kiss me good times are just around the corner)
wrote early to give plenty of warn-oblong arrangement, made on the ing, he explained, and he was ar Venetian, blind principle. The lat-d · ranging a private room and a din-tices are usually black and reveal a 9th Feb. ner at an hotel in Fleat-street for white background when operated by the thirteenth of June. I made a means of a string. We used them note of it in my diary, sent him a good deal at the beginning of the Well, the line to say I should be there, and War. for instruction.. hoped he'd been able to rake in all menu was written on miniature 28th Janthe others.
ahutters fanother idea of Field- It's a rambling sort of place, the Ing's). There was one to each hotel be had chosen. I had some place. I've still got mine, with all difficulty in finding it I was a bit our names signed on the back. late, and the other three wore get The dinner went along smoothly ting anxious. It's extraordinary enough, and by the time the table what a difference khaki makes was cleared and coffee and cigara to
man; still, I think were on the go we four were back 1 should have recognised Jan-again in the old squad and inter- son and Fielding-Bennett Ivening years had alipped away. should have passed by. He Every little trivial incident of our looked much older than his age, khaki daye was dug up and review- with an anxious, furtive look about ed, with, that slight exaggeration we 21st Jan. his eyes. But he seemed to be do-always give to the past..
Presently, there was full in the 1st Feb. ing pretty well; his clothes were
obviously new, and he insisted on galety just a momentary gap standing a bottle before we aat and, looking round, I caught Jan-
son's eyes fixed on the empty chair.| down for Nobby's sake."".
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standing in a windowed recess, and this," he said, quietly.
at Fielding's suggestion we moved "Nobby? Rather! I wish he into the centre of the room and took were here." It was Fielding who spoke, and his face grew resting on our places round the table.
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