“Got him—got the hat! No, I’m hanged if I have; at least he wasn’t in
it. The crafty cuss, he must have stuck it up on purpose. Another over
... scoring’s slow.... I wonder if he’s sportsman enough to take a
hint? His hat-trick’s foolish. Will he show his face if I show mine?”
I lay with closed ears and eyes. My leg had come to life again, and the
rest of me was numb.
“Bunny!”
His voice sounded higher. He must have been sitting upright.
“Well?”
But it was not well with me; that was all I thought as my lips made the
word.
“It’s not only been the best time I ever had, old Bunny, but I’m not
half sure—”
Of what I can but guess; the sentence was not finished, and never could
be in this world.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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