Category: Active Service

The same afternoon Coleman and the dragoman rode up to Arta on their borrowed troop horses. The correspondent first went to the telegraph office and found there the usual number of despairing clerks. They were outraged when they found he … Read the rest

COLEMAN’S dragoman aroused him in the blue before dawn. The correspondent arrayed himself in one of his new khaki suits- riding breeches and a tunic well marked with buttoned pockets- and accompanied by some of his beautiful brown luggage, they … Read the rest

NORA and Coke were an odd looking pair at the time. They stood indeed as if rooted to the spot, staring vacuously, like two villagers, at the surprising travellers. It was not an eternity before the practiced girl of the … Read the rest

“Good-morning,” said Mrs. Wainwright jovially to the students and then she stared at Coleman as if he were a sweep at a wedding.

” Good-morning,” said Marjory.

Coleman and the students made reply. ” Good-morning. Good-morning. Good-morning. Good-morning—” It was … Read the rest

THE ladies of the Wainwright party had not complained at all when deprived of even such civilised advantages as a shelter and a knife and fork and soap and water, but Mrs. Wainwright complained bitterly amid the half-civilisation of Arta. … Read the rest

” Come out on the balcony,” cooed Nora. “There are some funny old storks on top of some chimneys near here and they clatter like mad all day and night.”

They moved together out to the balcony, but Nora retreated … Read the rest

” GOOD God!” said Coleman. “You don’t Mean-“

Nora smiled rosily at him. ” Oh, I’m all right,” she answered. ” Don’t worry about your Aunt Nora, my precious boy. Not for a minute.”

Coleman was horrified. ” But you … Read the rest

GIVING Coleman another glance of subtle menace Nora repeated: “Why don’t you present me to your friends? ” Coleman had been swiftly searching the whole world for a way clear of this unhappiness, but he knew at last that he … Read the rest

“OH,” said a student, ” this game ought to quit. I feel like thirty cents. We didn’t come out here to be pursued about the country by these Turks. Why don’t they stop it ?”

Coleman was remarking: “Really, the … Read the rest

COLEMAN suddenly found himself looking upon his pallid dragoman. He saw that he had been asleep crouched at the foot of the tree. Without any exchange of speech at all he knew there had been alarming noises. Then shots sounded … Read the rest