Excerpt: ...if that young cub Allerton had got the bullet which killed poor Richardson.' 'He wouldn't have been much loss, would he?' said Walker, after a silence. 'MacKenzie has been very patient with him. If I'd been in his shoes I'd have sent him back to the coast when he sacked Macinnery.' Walker did not answer, and the doctor proceeded to moralise. 'It seems to me that some men have natures so crooked that with every chance in the world to go straight, they can't manage it. The only thing is to let them go to the devil ...
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Excerpt: ...if that young cub Allerton had got the bullet which killed poor Richardson.' 'He wouldn't have been much loss, would he?' said Walker, after a silence. 'MacKenzie has been very patient with him. If I'd been in his shoes I'd have sent him back to the coast when he sacked Macinnery.' Walker did not answer, and the doctor proceeded to moralise. 'It seems to me that some men have natures so crooked that with every chance in the world to go straight, they can't manage it. The only thing is to let them go to the devil as best they may.' At that moment Alec MacKenzie came in. He was dripping with rain and threw off his macintosh. His face lit up when he saw Walker and the doctor. Adamson was an old and trusted friend, and he knew that on him he could rely always. 'I've been going the round of the outlying sentries, ' he said. It was unlike him to volunteer even so trivial a piece of information, and Adamson looked up at him. 'All serene?' he asked. 'Yes.' Alec's eyes rested on the doctor as though he were considering something strange about him. The doctor knew him well enough to suspect that something very grave had happened, but also he knew him too well to hazard an inquiry. Presently Alec spoke again. 'I've just seen a native messenger that Mindabi sent me.' 'Anything important?' 'Yes.' Alec's answer was so curt that it was impossible to question him further. He turned to Walker. 'How's the arm?' 'Oh, that's nothing. It's only a scratch.' 'You'd better not make too light of it. The smallest wound has a way of being troublesome in this country.' 'He'll be all right in a day or two, ' said the doctor. Alec sat down. For a minute he did not speak, but seemed plunged in thought. He passed his fingers through his beard, ragged now and longer than when he was in England. 'How are the others?' he asked suddenly, looking at Adamson. 'I don't think Thompson can last till the morning.' 'I've just been in to see him.' Thompson was the man who had been shot through...
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