Part 34 (1/2)
”Who knows?” the Sikh answered
”Perhaps three hours, perhaps a week! She is never still, and there are those five regiments to hold in readiness”
”She is a wonderful worunted
”How is it that she has known of this place all this time, and yet has never tried to meddle with us?”
”I, too, ah
”You are surly, my friend! You do not like this pistol? You take it as an insult? Is that it?”
”I arenades, and of what I h
”Let us talk it over”
”No”
”Please your self!”
They sat facing each other for hour after dreary hour, leaning back against bales and thinking each his own thoughts After about four hours of it, it occurred to the German to dismantle the wireless detonator
”We should have been blown up if the police had grown inquisitive,” he said, with a shrug of his shoulders, returning to his seat
After that they sat still for four hours more, and then put their clothes on, not that they were dry yet, but the Gerh's better physique with his own He put his clothes on to hide inferiority, and Ranjoor Singh followed suit for the sake of manners
”What rank do you hold in your arh, after an almost endless interval
”If I told you that, my friend, you would be surprised”
”I think not,” said Ranjoor Singh ”I think you are an officer as dismissed from the service”
”What makes you think so?”
”I am sure of it!”
”What makes you sure?”
”You are too well educated for a noncommissioned officer If you had not been disth, or else in the reserve and ready for the front in Europe And what arht?”
But then ca her food-basket as the rest had done She knocked at the outer trap-door, and the Gerh a hiddenat her Then he went up a partly ruined stair and looked all around the clearing through gaps in the debris overhead that had been glazed for protection's sake Then he adain when he opened the second door, and laughed at Ranjoor Singh She seemed jubilant and very little interested in the bombs that the German was at pains to explain to her She had to tell of five regiments on the way