Harley Greenoak's Charge

Mitford, Bertram · 1914

________________________________________________________________________ HARLEY GREENOAK'S CHARGE, BY BERTRAM MITFORD. Thus two men on the deck of a ship. One was silver-haired, elderly, spare and very refined looking. The other, of medium height, broadly built, and middle-aged, was, in his way, of striking appearance. His strong face, lined and sun-tanned, was half hidden in a full, iron-grey beard, and the keen blue eyes with their straight glance, were of that kind which would be deadly looking at you from behind the sights of a rifle. His hands, rough and hard, were like his face, burnt almost to a mahogany brown, the result of forty-five years' exposure--man and boy-- to the varyin…

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