Georgie never stays long, and he wouldn't be welcome if he did.

He turned up just by chance like, and now he's off again." "That was all, eh ?" Of course they all knew that the sergeant knew that Nokes had been with them.

"Well, then, that wasn't all," said old Brownbie.

"Bill Nokes was here, whom Heathcote dismissed ever so long ago, and that Chinese cook of his.

He dismissed him too, I suppose.