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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