James M. Dodd
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
We took the rough and the smooth together through a year of fighting.
Then, outside Pretoria, he was wounded in the shoulder.
I got one letter from the hospital at Cape Town and one from Southampton.
Since then, not a word.
Not one word, Mr. Holmes, for six months or more.
And he was my closest pal.
And what then?
When the war was over and we all got back
I wrote to his father and asked where Godfrey was.
I waited a bit and wrote again.
This time I had a reply, short and gruff.
Godfrey had gone on a voyage round the world, and it wasn't likely that he'd be back for a year.
Well, Mr. Holmes, I wasn't satisfied.
The whole thing seemed so damned unnatural.
I wasn't like him to drop a pal in such a manner.
What did you do?
Well, my own affairs took quite a time to straighten out, so I haven't been able to do anything about it till this week.
My first move was to go down to his home, Tuxbury Old Park.
I had to walk five miles from the station, and it was nearly dark when I got there.