Achmed Abdullah

“ He was himself again, the horse wrangler, the rider, the free man of the plains born and bred to the game of hoof and saddle and quirt.
With zest he entered upon his new duties. Too, with absolute mastery. There was nothing about a horse that he did not know. He did not belong to the older generation of Westerners who broke a horse and, incidentally, its spirit. Tom trained them, with gentle voice, with infinite patience, with knowing hand and a certain sense of humor that seemed to establish a link between man and animal. ”

“ Mile upon mile of jerry-built houses, covered on the out side with stucco, that panacea against all the social and hygienic evils of Berlin, but inside—the inside which the foreign tourist never sees—hotbeds of dirt and vice and degeneracy. ”

“ Thus all morning, and that night, at mess, a consensus of opinion amongst the younger officers would have established the fact that Tom Graves, ex-horse wrangler, was the most popular man in the Uhlans of the Guard. ”