They were just like a lot
of savage dogs."
"Well, they didn't have enough to eat, to begin with," said
Beany, "and then the air was so bad, and they were all cooped up
in that little space, and you couldn't hear any outside noises at
all. You don't know how funny that is.
"They took our watches, so we couldn't tell the time, and,
honest, I thought we must have been there a month. And they all
knew that something pretty fierce would happen to them it they
went back home without sinking the ships that had been required
of them. They have it all down to a system.
"Well, pretty soon Louie took to leaving me with the engine, and
he would walk back past the Captain. He saluted him every time,
and he watched that bottle just like a starved dog. And every
time the Captain would slowly take hold of the bottle and grin.
And then Louie would walk back again.
"Then once he went a little too close, and the Captain said
something in German, and stuck out his foot, and tripped Louie
up. He fell the length of the apartment; just plunged down
because he wasn't expecting it. Beany was trying to do something
for the sick man on the locker, and I was at the engine. We were
sort of out of the way; and it was a lucky thing, because Louie
went mad then and there, that's all there was to it.
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