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So the wlas was brought, and the glams were filled, and the tre sen drank to each other. The General lit a cheroot, in 1 sat in a deck chair;
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CHAPTER XIII. It was the first of May, and that same good threo motor, the Caesar, which had carried Major de Blacqdzire and Sergeant Jervase from the Crimes to Sentaris, was bowling merrily along South of Naples where Vesuvius had his smoking cup on. There were many invalided men on board, and amongst them three with whom this story has a particular concern.
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You are right, Captain Tompson, it is abominably unlucky; I had reckoned on moeing the finish of the campaign, and it's hard to find. oneself bowled over now, and sent home again tiko a useless old balo of damaged goods,
General Boswell was stumping the sloping deck with the aid of the Captain's arm, getting his first hour of exercise since he came a-board, All the snowy canvas was filled hard as iron with a noble level breezy and the ship was | ranking a spyod which would hardly have dis. graced an Atlantio liner of the modern day She made a prettier sight than any steam driven craft ever made, or ever will make; and abe carried s. batter music with her in the taut
wind-smitton cordage of the shrouds and the deep organ but of the stretched canvas.
"I am saying, Polson," said the General, “encountering the sergeant halfway along the deck, that it's unfucktor for an old follow to get bowled arer than it is for a young one. You may be as it as a fiddle again in a month
two, and may have your all of fighting for Queen and country, but I have done my last day's work and fist is a weary thing to think of."
"Last day's Oghting, sir?" said. Polson, but not the last day's work. There's a boop to be done for the old country yet, and I hope that Irene's dream may come true and that you may go into the House of Commons and give those baggars at the War Office their Proper fodder."
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*Shall we go down?” asked the General; "One tires easily still, and this May wind gets | into an old man's head like wing.” Ded
"And into a young man's too" said de Blanqasira. "I am half tinsy with it, and shall be glad to get into shelter."
"We'll see you at breakfast, Polson," said the General, "and natil then, good-bye."
The two men reached the General's cabin and sat down together.
"When we touched at Corte," said the General, "I found a letter from my Londen
agents-I'd like you to see it, and I shall be glad if you can confirm its contents, or at least a part of them,”
De Blacquaire took the proffered Iafter and read,"
Sir-We are instructed to inform you that meum of fifty thousand pounds has been de, posited with us to your credit by Mr. Joka
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while..
*Don't go on, my lad," said the General, teachers band towards him. "If I understand you, it's useless to talk of that."
"Vary well, sir," said do Blacqasive, sipping gloomily at his wine; and nothing more was said for a minute or two, but the younger mao gradually brightened, and it could be plainly soon that he was squaring his mental shoulders for the reception of a burdou which he meant to carry.
"The sergeant is a lucky dog, sir.”
deserved to be a lucky dog. It is one of the My dear fellow," said the General, he has ordinances of this life that a fellow can't choose his own father. If the lad had had a choice
and had exercised it. I should have had no great respect for him. And yet I had a sort always, but I thought he was an honest of liking for old Jurvase. He was a bounder
bonuder."
They tell me," said de Blacqavire, “that the sergeant's to have his V.G, for that business in front of the first parallel."
That is a settled thing, I faucy," said the General. "Sir Colin's word ought to be good for anything at home, and my ond should go for something."
***Mius won't be wasting, sir, if they think it worth listening to," f
What did you two fall out about?" the General asked,
..
box which had been pushed over towards his Major de Blacquaire dipped into the cigar
long before, and very thoughtfully ungeret an evil-looking Trichinopoli.
"Why, sir. I believe if the whole truth were told we fell out mainly because I was a bit of a puppy. You're an older man of the world than am, air, and I daresay yon can't have failed to notice that some men who think they are insiders are outsiders, and that some of the fellows thoy dospise are better than thom- selves,"
bend and the Alexander Hmp cute to be in later year, and no man would have beez al- lowed to carry his head in any other fashion than Polson did mave under, heavy pains and penalties.
"When everybody can see how a story will narrative art, the story is ended," and the end," said one of the greatest masters of the written history of Polson Jurvao is coming to
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There were cortain things about which ho GENUINE was naturally anxions mad about which it was came out little by little, and it appeared in the impossible to ask any questions. But the truth
end that the world know nothing-of-ths secrets | which had escaped between the partners in the firm of Jervayoe and Jervase in the course of that wild night which had brought to Eaghad news of such porteutons moment. There were ramours, of course. There was a gossip to the affect that the firm had been on the edge of rain, and that Polson, rather than miss tho fighting, bad elected to go out as a private soldier, dropping his bops of a commission for the time being. This was a fancy which hart nobody. John Jorvaso had left his affairs in
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have made mousy hand over fist within the last year or two, the halo which surrounds (he millionairo was about him, and it would hav been hard to say whether he or the boy were more popular in the Castle Birfield region. The general idea was that they were a pair of valiant fellows; the one in the commercial and the other in the warlike way.
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than specks in the great open space-just FOTELEGRAPHIC ADDRESS: MIDZUSHIMA, Kobe, Moji, Osaka, Wakamaten, and Hongkong, means to my mind. You go where you're sent, just as the germ of disease or whatever you call it, goes, and you do what you are set to do. And I'll say this for war, sir, as an old Christian man who has spout his life at it. It's the fire of God to my way of thinking, and it burns out ull manner of meannesses, and hypocrisies, and we should have a devil of a lot more to be ashamed of than we have if we didn't get into a solid tight now and again.”.
"It is a school, sir," zid de Blacquairo. "By heaven, sir," mid the solemn General, "it is a school"
But there are more class-rooms than one in the great schoolhouse of human nature, and whilst the General was setting forth his theories of war, young Poleon Jervase was setting ont a theory of another and an opposite fashion as he walked the deck with Irene.
He was deadly serious also, for all that part of life which seems best worth having lay before him. And the two had many talks as they paid the decks, morn and eve, together. Irene
was almost the only lady on board, and most of Jervase, of Beacon Horgate. Mr. Jerviso^.20- quests as in communicating with you to say the dot-and-go-one boys who had exchanged that a further sam of one hundred thousand sleeved men who had left an arm behind them a natural limb for a timber toe, and the loose pounds, mating in all ons hundred and fifty Sevastopol, had been beneath her care. thousand, has been deposited by him in the And these who did not know her ministrationis interest of Major de Blaegasiro with that in effect knew them by oral tradition, and the gentleman's agents. We are desired to add farther that Mr. Jarvass has joined his brother bronzed followsstumping and tramping up and in South America, that he proposes to establish down saluted her with such a worship that ber business relations there, and does not intend to art was like a fountain of glad tears a hundred return to England-Weare, sir, your obedientes in a day,
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Except, said de Blanquaire, that the sums mentioned here are reversed in order, I bave a letter identical in terms. The old scoundrel has bled very freely,
"And there's no Vendetta P said the General, smiling
« Vendella!” said - de Blaoquaire, “You can hardly have a Vendetta with a man who | has saved your life, even though the beggar did, it for no other reason than to show how much
he despised you. I was wrong about the lad General; he's a very fins follow."
"I could have told you that much long ago," said the General. He reached out a lean brown hand and rang a ball which thood upon the state-room table. "Yon'll take a glass of wine, Major? It's against my rule, but I feel like breaking rules to-day."
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And when, after long waiting, the royal carriage came, with the pretty, smiling little matronly figure bowing and swaying smidst the ringing thunders of the world's greatest city, and the bands rolled out their “ God Soya the Queen as the passed them one after an- other, one happy, happy onlocker looked up at New
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"Upon my word," said the General with a than he meant it to be, and in a voice which was grimace which was really much less humorous hardly as steady as he would have liked to have it upon any word, Irene, I'd give twopence to be in your shoes at this moment."
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