rs Tietjens. The poor lady — excuse me! — really appears to have been out of her mind with anxiety . . . ’ That was why she had been waiting in the general’s car at the bottom of the hill. To get a glimpse of Tietjens’ living body. For they had been utterly unable, up at H.Q., to convince her that Tietjens was even alive, much less in that town.
She hadn’t in fact waited even so long. Having apparently convinced herself by conversation with the sentries outside the guard-room that Tietjens actually still existed, she Maillot Everton FC Pas CHer had told the chauffeur-orderly to drive her back to the Hotel de la Poste, leaving the wretched Celtic Barn Levin to make his way back into the town by tram, or as best Tennessee Titans he might. They had seen the lights of the car below them, turning, with its gaily lit interior, and disappearing among the trees along the road farther down . . . The sentry, rather monosyllabically and gruffly — you can tell all right when a Tommie has something at the back of his mind! — informed them that the sergeant had turned out the guard so that all his men together could assure the lady that the captain was alive and well. The obliging sergeant said that he had adopted that manoeuvre which generally should attend only the visits of general officers and, once a day, for the C.O., because the lady had seemed so distressed at having received no letters from the captain. The guardroom itself, which Maillot FC Barcelone Pas CHer was unprovided with cells, was decorated by the presence of two drunks who, having Maillot Roumanie Pas CHer taken it into their heads to destroy their clothing, were in a state of complete nudity. The sergeant Maillot Turquie Pas CHer hoped, therefore, that he had done Chicago Bears Kvinnor no wrong. Rightly the Garrison Military Police ought to take drunks picked up outside camp to the A.P.M.’s guard-room, but seeing the state of undress and the violent behaviour of these two, the sergeant had thought right to oblige the Red Caps. The voices of the drunks, singing the martial anthem of the ‘Men of Harlech’, could be heard corroborating the sergeant’s opinion as to their states. He added tha |
