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John Buchan
Greenmantle
Published by Good Press, 2019
EAN 4057664187024
Table of Contents
The Gathering of the Missionaries
Adventures of Two Dutchmen on the Loose
Further Adventures of the Same
The Garden-House of Suliman the Red
The Companions of the Rosy Hours
Four Missionaries See Light in their Mission
Trouble by The Waters of Babylon
Peter Pienaar Goes to the Wars
CHAPTER ONE
A Mission is Proposed
I had just finished breakfast and was filling my pipe when I got Bullivant's telegram. It was at Furling, the big country house in Hampshire where I had come to convalesce after Loos, and Sandy, who was in the same case, was hunting for the marmalade. I flung him the flimsy with the blue strip pasted down on it, and he whistled.
'Hullo, Dick, you've got the battalion. Or maybe it's a staff billet. You'll be a blighted brass-hat, coming it heavy over the hard-working regimental officer. And to think of the language you've wasted on brass-hats in your time!'
I sat and thought for a bit, for the name 'Bullivant' carried me back eighteen months to the hot summer before the war. I had not seen the man since, though I had read about him in the papers. For more than a year I had been a busy battalion officer, with no other thought than to hammer a lot of raw stuff into good soldiers. I had succeeded pretty well, and there was no prouder man on earth than Richard Hannay when he took his Lennox