The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1940-01-26
CHAPTER xIv-Continued

nothing on earth to be troubled
about.
"That lamp amt fit to read by"
said O'Leary. you'll ruin your
eyes. The only kind O. engineer that
can look after himself has a cou-
pie O. fingers missing, along O. hav-
ing learned what engineering isl Let
me turn it out. I'll fix it later"
"Cone in. Sit down."
O'Leary blew out the lamp. Then
he sat. It was not yet night out
side, but it was too dark in the tent
for them to see each others faces.
Meaning you'll" said O'Leary. Il
could have picked you off against
that lanplight from hundred
yards away, aye and no one know
who done it,
"Talk," said Norwood.
'T'm dry o talking. I've a throat
like bakers oven."
"You shall have drink present
ay."
"Said the devil to the sinner! That
Bengal doctors sore at someone.
He's scared. He's rolled. He's UP
to mischief. Like all them Bengal
is, he's a mixture of too many diff
ferent kinds of education. He's as
full Of spite as scalded cat. He
has imagination like the toothache.
What he needs is an umbrella, to
keep worry off with"
"Did he talk to your"
"Did he!-Time to post the SEN
tries?"
''Stoddart is doing it now. Can't
you hear hirn?"
"Yeh, but / know Stoddart."
"Stoddart has his orders. I will
go the rounds presently. What did
the Bengal doctor tell you? Come
on now, out with it."
The way l managed him was
this" said O'Leary. 81 was looking
in on Mrs. Harding, cracking on I'd
come to fix the plumbing, on &C.
count O. my hearing her raising hell.
She was doing better job of that
than you or I could. / understand
she's widow. / don't blame her
husband for taking a chance on the
mex world. She has her things pref
ty near packed, in about lorry-
load O. trunks on the veranda. She
was cussing out the servants until
the doctor turned up, and then she
turned her guns on him. She de-
manded her bill, and he remarked
she didn't owe him nothing. So /
knew right then, there was cock
roach in somebody's butter. / stuck
around, outrageous.
'What she said to that Bengali
doctor, mind you, wouldn't say to
thief. He was trying to persuade
her to take some physic for her
stomach. And she wouldn't. He
said it 'ud make her stomach easy,
and she'd be fit to travel He Of
fered to swallow some of it him
self, to prove it was harmless. But
she said he could swallow the bot
tie, for all O. her. He said he was
trying to speed the parting guest,
and she said she didn't need no
speedin'.
II showed up, suitable respect
full, cracking on hadn't heard moth
ing. And / said / was Captain
Norwood's private servant and had
the Captain left his pipe on the
veranda when he called this after.
noon? You should have heard that
female talk, and what she said about
you! She said she wouldn't put it
past you to have smoked your pipe
on her veranda, but If you had done
it she'd have kicked the sinking
thing into the bushes. Long and
short o. it, she don't like you. She
pitched hundred-rupee note at the
doctor for his fee, and he let it lie
there. followed the Bengal. /
overlook him where it was Quiet,
and no shrubbery where folks could
scratch their noses poking into 9th.
er peoples business. I spoke re-
proachful.
81 asked him: Doctor sahib, did
you tell that woman what she said
you told her about Captain Nor.
wood?' He came back at me with:
Are you genuinely Captain Nor
woods servant?' And said if I'm
not genuine, there's less than six
teen annas to a rupee. And when
he'd thought a bit he answered:
Yes, told her. repeated rumor.
I,should not have done it, He acted
nervous. And after a minute, he
pulled out five rupees and gave 'em
to me- ! looked noncommittal, SO
he gave me five more. Then he
said to me: Will you be seeing Can.
tain Norwood? How soon? Tell him.
but don't say who told you, that his
life is in danger-tonightl Warn him
that his enemies have heard about
that bride, and they will try to kill
him. Let him look to himself
ssHe don't care damn about you.
But he's scared stiff o. what might
happen if they killed British off,
Ger in Kadur. figured out the
meaning O. that, quicker than you'd
take q snapshot He's up to some
thing crafty. No knowing what. But
he figures he can get away with 1t
all right if nothing happens, like the
killing of q British officer that wn,,ld