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When the crew was buried in an avalanche in the Pamirs - inadvertently set off by Temeraire, when he used the [[Divine Wind]] to intimidate [[Arkady]] and his band of feral dragons - Hackley was one of the men who was dug up from underneath the snow "pale and still," along with Granby, Riggs and Dunne. Bathing in the hot springs in the ferals' cavern did them much good, but the riflemen were still not wholly recovered by the time the party reached Istanbul, being inclined to sneeze at inopportune moments. | When the crew was buried in an avalanche in the Pamirs - inadvertently set off by Temeraire, when he used the [[Divine Wind]] to intimidate [[Arkady]] and his band of feral dragons - Hackley was one of the men who was dug up from underneath the snow "pale and still," along with Granby, Riggs and Dunne. Bathing in the hot springs in the ferals' cavern did them much good, but the riflemen were still not wholly recovered by the time the party reached Istanbul, being inclined to sneeze at inopportune moments. | ||
| − | + | When the crew reached Istanbul, a Muslim city where women were generally veiled if not secluded entirely, Hackley seemed to follow Dunne's lead right into a series of misadventures involving women. | |
The final straw came when Dunne and Hackley were caught trying to sneak into the seraglio where the palace women were secluded. The customary sentence for this was death. Laurence managed to get the officers' lives spared by suggesting that since there were no disinterested witnesses to swear that Dunne and Hackley had actually <i>seen</i> the women - which it later turned out that they <i>had</i> - they ought to be given the benefit of the doubt and "only" flogged. In return, however, he was forced to accept that he had to do the same and give the benefit of the doubt to the Turks' feeble explanations as to the deaths of the British ambassador and the disappearance of the gold sent to pay for the dragon eggs. | The final straw came when Dunne and Hackley were caught trying to sneak into the seraglio where the palace women were secluded. The customary sentence for this was death. Laurence managed to get the officers' lives spared by suggesting that since there were no disinterested witnesses to swear that Dunne and Hackley had actually <i>seen</i> the women - which it later turned out that they <i>had</i> - they ought to be given the benefit of the doubt and "only" flogged. In return, however, he was forced to accept that he had to do the same and give the benefit of the doubt to the Turks' feeble explanations as to the deaths of the British ambassador and the disappearance of the gold sent to pay for the dragon eggs. | ||
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As a result of this mess, Dunne and Hackley were turned out of the flight crew and flogged by the armourer, Mr. [[Pratt]], although Laurence scanted a bit on the count of the strokes, which was nearer to forty than the fifty the sentence called for. [[Salyer]], who had been on guard when Dunne and Hackley snuck off and who had only lately been made midwingman, was reduced back to ensign and "started" (caned) with a freshly cut switch. | As a result of this mess, Dunne and Hackley were turned out of the flight crew and flogged by the armourer, Mr. [[Pratt]], although Laurence scanted a bit on the count of the strokes, which was nearer to forty than the fifty the sentence called for. [[Salyer]], who had been on guard when Dunne and Hackley snuck off and who had only lately been made midwingman, was reduced back to ensign and "started" (caned) with a freshly cut switch. | ||
| − | Both Dunne and Hackley | + | Both Dunne and Hackley were ill for some time after the flogging, Hackley more severely so as he was slighter in build. |
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