Henry Blake, Eientei's resident surgeon, awaited eagerly at station on the estate grounds. Reisen Udongein Inaba, walked over to him. He looked at him with a look of bemusement.
"What's got you so excited? You ordered another tanker full of beer again?" asked Reisen.
"Oh c'mon!" replied Henry, "It was only one time. Besides, I got something from Kourindou and its finally arriving!"
"What did you order?"
Before Henry Blake could answer, Ichihiro arrived at the station with medical supplies. Henry walked up to Ichihiro and asked him if he had stopped at Kourindou.
"So your the one that requested me to go out of my way and go there." said Ichihiro, "The van from Kourindou is the first van in the line."
Henry walked to the first van in the train and opened the door.
"Reisen? Do you mind helping me this?" grunted Henry.
"What do you mean?"
"Just come here."
Reisen went into the goods van and she and Henry grabbed and moved a large oak desk onto the platform.
"You ordered a desk?!" said Reisen.
"Yes, I had one like this for a short time. Then Hawkeye and McIntyre traded it for medical supplies." replied Henry.
Reisen got busy unloading the medical supplies as Henry dragged the desk inside. He was siting on the desk, resting, when Eirin saw him.
"I thought you went out to help Reisen?" she asked.
"No. I was busy getting this." answered Henry.
Eirin took a good look at the desk and she looked back at Henry.
"Why did you get a desk?"
"I got it because it reminds me of my MASH days."
Eirin looked puzzled, "Why would you want to be reminded of a time of war, death, tragedy, and sadness?"
"Because it reminds me of Hawkeye, Klinger, Trapper John, Major Houlihan, and..." Henry paused disgustedly, "...Frank Burns. Yeah, I can see your point here."
"Now aren't you going to get rid of that desk?"
"No, I payed for it. I'm keeping it." and with that, Henry Blake continued to move the desk to his room.
It took Henry Blake longer than he had expected it, but he finally got the heavy desk into his room. He took a chair and placed it behind the desk, he sat down and put his hands down onto the desk. It was nostalgic for him, it reminded him all the good times he had at the 4077th.
That night, Eirin and Reisen broke into his room and they both moved the desk down to the station platform where Ichihiro waited with a conflat truck.
"Why do you want me here so late?" yawned Ichihiro.
"I want you to take this desk and put it somewhere." said Eirin.
Ichihiro saw the two of them, load the desk onto the conflat.
"Why do you want me to take this desk! I just brought it here a while ago!"
"I don't want Henry becoming all arrogant and important because he has an old desk." replied Eirin.
"I think your just jealous." said Reisen, dryly.
"No, I'm not. It's just when Henry Blake starts talking the Korean War like he's seeing it through rose tinted glasses. War is goddamn awful and I need him to know that." replied Eirin, she continued, "Ichihiro. Place the desk somewhere you would only know where it is."
"Fine." replied Ichihiro, "Just so long I can get some sleep."
The next morning, Henry found that his desk had went missing. He spent the whole morning looking for it.
Ichihiro pulled into the station with his first passenger train. Henry Blake walked over to him.
"Do you know where my desk went?" he asked.
Ichihiro tried not to look suspicious. "I did not see it...Nope, I haven't a clue where its gone."
Henry gave Ichihiro a dirty look before walking away.
Ichihiro soon left the platform, one of his coaches began to talk to him.
"What's going on, Ichihiro?" said Ani.
"Nothing, Ani."
"Oh come on Ichihiro. You have something bothering you."
Ichihiro sighed, "I took Henry Blake's desk."
His coaches gasped, "You didn't!" they said.
"I did. But only because Eirin told me to."
Meanwhile, Henry had telephoned Marisa, asking if she had stolen his desk.
"An old oak desk? What would I do with something like that?" Marisa said.
"I thought you took it. You do tend to borrow things without asking...or giving them back."
"No. Besides, I'm taking Takara out to go borrow some things. I hope you find your stupid desk, da ze. Bye."
The phone went silent. Henry Blake felt defeated. But Reisen, came up to him.
"Do you want to know where your desk is?"she asked.
"Yes. I need that desk back." reponded Blake.
"Give me some one of your best bottles and I'll talk."
Henry, reluctantly went to his liqueur cabinet and grabbed one of his finest bottle of brew and gave it to Reisen. The need for his desk seemed greater than losing a bottle of booze.
"Thanks." Reisen took the top off and took a swig straight from the bottle and told where Ichihiro had put the desk.
For Henry Blake, he had go a convoluted route going from riding on Ichihiro's train to the Human Village, to taking Hiroto's express to the Moryia Shrine, then taking a train on the Narrow Gauge line, before finally ending up in Kappa Valley. Henry spent a good part of the day searching for the railway sheds. He soon found it and walked around, looking for Ichihiro's berth. He did find it. But there was no conflat. He looked around and found a kappa organizing some tools.
"Where's my desk?!" he said, getting up close and personal with the kappa.
The kappa luckily had a stiff upper lip and said, "If your looking for the conflat that desk of yours was on. Our Number one took it."
Meanwhile, Ichihiro was at Eientei station, with the conflat the desk was on.
"Why did you bring it back?!" asked Eirin.
"Ani and Kuraraberu would not stop telling me to give it back. They said it was dishonest." replied Ichihiro.
Eirin remain flustered as to what to do with Henry Blake's desk. She had to hide it, but when she called for Reisen, she stumbled by and slumped over onto the desk.
"Reisen! What's gotten into you!"
Reisen, picked herself back up, "I-I-I told Henry, where his d-d-desk is." she hiccuped, "He back me his best...be-er."
"Reisen! Your drunk aren't you!" accused Eirin.
"No...N-no...Your the drunk one...missy." Reisen burped and promptly fell backwards onto the ground, "Nighty night." she said, before passing out.
"What I'm I going to do with her." said Eirin.
It was evening when Henry returned to Eientei empty handed. He was tired from all the searching he did and went into his room. Now without a desk, he began doing something that would still remind of the MASH. He grabbed some piping and some tubes and all sorts of beakers and glasses and he started to build a still.
"Hawkeye had a still." thought Henry Blake to himself.
But where was the desk? Well, not knowing a good hiding place, she gave the desk to Kaguya Houraisan. She enjoyed messing about with the desk, but she didn't have a chair to use with the desk. I don't thing Eirin would ever stop Henry Blake from thinking about the MASH, don't you?