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Practically a shore job . Cheer up . " She wiped | |
garden ! | |
That little beast , Robbie Munyard ! " Having | |
burden and prepared to break up yet | |
this had already happened half a dozen times . | |
said her say Peggy manfully shouldered her | |
another home . In the ten years of married life | |
Such is the life of a naval officer's wife . | |
school ; some of his rigid ideas had been passed | |
John's father had been a naval officer of the old | |
instilled by martinet parents have a habit of | |
plain-clothes on the previous night , but ways | |
new appointment , at nine a.m. precisely , dressed | |
in the modern equivalent of frock-coat and sword . | |
an officer should join a ship , on taking up a | |
if John had stepped into Fort Blockhouse clad in | |
on to the second generation . One of these was that | |
sticking . | |
It would have been acceptable to all concerned | |
Ever been out in a submarine ? I 'll give | |
you a spin round one of these days , if you | |
" Better ask Robbie Munyard . " " What 's he been | |
" Not in Pericles , old man . " " Why not ? " | |
To go gassing to a newspaper man ! | |
like . You could write it up . " Bawley made a face . | |
saying ? " John was furious . The little squirt ! | |
to write up Pericles in some way or other , are | |
you ? " " What is there to write up ? " said | |
Bawley . " There are forty-three submarines in | |
the Navy - why should I pick on Pericles ? " | |
" Look ! " he went on earnestly . " You 're not going | |
John eyed him steadily . " It 's the Parcifal | |
business , isn't it ? " he said quietly . | |
and X-rayed and that it was as sound as a bell ? " | |
" I don't want it to happen again , " said Bawley - | |
" What did Munyard say ? " " The Snort - hull | |
" more so than ever since I met you . " | |
we 've had Pericles' entire Snort equipment removed | |
fitting fractured . " " Supposing I was to tell you that | |
said John . | |
with the possibility of faulty design . " He held | |
I 'm relieved . But it still doesn't do away | |
one of these days , " he said . " In the meantime | |
out his hand . " Maybe I will take a trip with you | |
I 'll tell my editor that the story 's a dead bird . | |
" Munyard didn't tell me that . But I must confess | |
for calling , " he said . " Still long as you 're here | |
Dowd , still wearing his blue check shirt . He | |
shack , his rifle at the ready , I saw it was Nick | |
I saw several men running down towards | |
came up close , eyeing us suspiciously . " We 've | |
you may as well stay a while . | |
the shack . They were all armed with rifles . | |
As the nearest of them came round the | |
come 2a-calling , " I said . " Can't see no reason | |
found us a couple of boxes to sit on . | |
miners followed in at our heels . Nick Dowd | |
'Light an' come on in . " We dismounted and | |
We followed Nick Dowd into the shack . | |
Nick Dowd took our horses off to water . | |
They 'd rigged up a stove of sorts and on it | |
one of the miners who 'd come along with | |
a huge blackened coffee-pot steamed . Other | |
the little hombre in big overalls . Very soon he | |
Derby hat fussed around the stove . " 2Ain't | |
who 'd come in as Roper Smith , Shorty , Mick | |
sweetened with molasses for all and for us | |
A small man in bib overalls and a battered | |
exactly the Ritz Hotel but we 've got our little | |
there were two plates of beans . | |
comforts , " said Dowd . He introduced the men | |
had tin mugs filled with hot black coffee | |
Golightly , Swede and the Sodbuster . This last was | |
night . " | |
as of now , apart from a few sacks of gold | |
we 'd finished and I 'd rolled a cigarette | |
watched us as we ate the beans . Then when | |
the man called Shorty said , " You were saying when | |
you came in that 2somep'n happened last | |
dust . " He winked at his partners . They all | |
handing them to us , " but it 's all we got | |
" They gives you the wind , " said the Sodbuster | |
Shorty . | |
down William Appleton outside the Palace | |
words affect them in their different ways . | |
" That 's sure bad news , " said Dowd , sombrely . | |
" Yes , " I said . " Something happened all right . | |
looked across at Nick Dowd - " someone cut | |
with a shotgun . " I paused and watched my | |
for Mr. Pell and his bunch , " observed | |
" It 2jest about leaves everything wide open | |
After you 'd left the meeting , mister " - I | |
The rest of the men there said nothing but | |
right 2hyar , Nick , " said the Sodbuster . | |
desperadoes like Pell and Fenton and the | |
digging for gold but were babes in arms | |
when it came to dealing with owlhooters and | |
simple men who knew a lot maybe about | |
you could see they were hard hit . They were | |
rest . " I guess we 'd better hold onto the gold |
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