Dimples.
CHAPTER V
Dimples Takes Part in a Ceremony
During the first few weeks after his arrival in France Captain Shipp had no time whatever for affairs of his own, but a day came finally when he took a train for a certain base close up behind an American sector, intending there to more definitely locate Dimples’s whereabouts and to walk in upon him unannounced. It would be a memorable reunion; he could hear now the big fellow’s shout of welcome. That genial behemoth would have a tale to unfold, and they would talk steadily until Shipp’s leave was up.
But bad news was waiting at the base—news that sent the captain hurrying from first one hospital to another.
“Dalrymple? Oh yes, he’s here,” an orderly informed the distracted visitor.
“Is he— May I see him?”
A small, hollow-eyed man with a red triangle upon his sleeve rose from a chair and approached to inquire:
“Are you, by any chance, Captain Shipp?”
“I am.”