Twenty-three and a half hours' leave
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An excerpt from CHAPTER I: THE Headquarters Troop were preparing to leave camp and move towards the East, where at an Atlantic port they would take ship and the third step toward saving democracy. Now the Headquarters Troop are a cavalry organisation, their particular function being, so far as the lay mind can grasp it, to form a circle round the general and keep shells from falling on him. Not that this close affiliation gives them any right to friendly relations with that aloof and powerful personage. "It just gives him a few more to yell at that can't yell back," grumbled the stable sergean...
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