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Show 108 the men layin' around," Mrs Bryce continued, "from what I hear- Officers too. Especially that doctor." Now indeed was Phyllis riven, for of all men she detested Carlton most, the high point of each day that moment when she and a friend could savor his incredible lack of performance. But she was spared an answer; Mike and Yosh appeared, and while the introductions were being made the train arrived. While the ladies were on the train, the contingent on the platform increased. Captain Bain drove up (finance officer for the month, enroute to Kyoto) and carried his bag onto the military car. A few moments later Captain Bryce arrived. He was to pick up his mother and had brought Tomo - - lent by the Satter-whites until Mrs Bryce could locate her own servants - - tto carry the parcels. Captain Bryce was small, slender, neat, very slightly effeminate. Still new to Oji he walked up and down the platform, watching the heavily-burdened Japanese scurry to their spectacularly-overcrowded cars, peering in the window of the military compartment (in which he met only Captain Bain's electric gaze) and, marching to the side, savoring the bay, Higashi's slate tiles, and the mount-mountain over the Engineers. |