[Affair in Araby by Talbot Mundy]@TWC D-Link bookAffair in Araby CHAPTER II 17/29
You can't mistake him.
I'll write out a medical certificate for Jeremy and follow.
And say; wait a minute! What price the lot of you eating Mabel's chow tonight at our house? We don't keep a cook, so you won't get poisoned.
That's settled; I'll tell Mabel you're coming. Tootleloo!" But there was a chance that the brigadier might carry resentment to the point of sending up a provost-marshal's guard to arrest Jeremy on the well-known principle that a bird in the hand can be strafed more easily than one with a medical certificate.
The bush was the place for our bird until such time as the P.M.O.'s signature should adorn the necessary piece of paper; so we three rode up in a cab together to the Sikh hospital, and had a rare time trying to get in. You see, there was a Sikh on guard outside, who respected nothing under heaven but his orders.
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