“Oh, well,” said Bland, “it can’t be helped. And, any way, I dare say I shouldn’t have been able to get my telegram through. The wires are sure to be blocked.”
CHAPTER XXII
I looked at my watch and found that it was three o’clock. The battle had lasted more than two hours.
“I had no idea,” I said to Bland, “that fighting was such interesting work. The time has flown.”
“I’m uncommonly hungry,” said Bland. “Let’s try and find something to eat.”
When he mentioned the subject of eating I found that I too was very hungry. I felt, however, that it was scarcely right, certainly it was not suitable to sit down to luncheon in a club while a revolution was in full swing under the windows. People ought to be serious immediately after battles.
“Oughtn’t we to be doing something?” I asked.
“Doing what?”