Chapter 8

To help with the clearing away and washing up afterwards , and you that you'll sit down and talk to me while I eat . She fetched him another bottle of beer from the larder to make up for the one that had been spilled ; the beer belonged to Colonel Murga, but he had gone away indefinitely , and in any case , she didn't suppose he would grudge it .

As he attacked the food and drink with renewed vigour , Sergio Dim told her something of his circumstances , I've only been in Bilbao three days . I was in South America when a jolly little revolution broke out - they have'em periodically over there , you know . But I'd been working for the losing side , and it didn't look too healthy .

So I got a temporary berth as steward on a liner and returned to Bilbao . I went to the War Office this afternoon to see if I could be taken into my old regiment and sent to Malaya where there's a spot of trouble , but they hoofed me out . Told me my fortune good and proper . The only thing f