This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1919 edition. Excerpt: ... chapter xxxix B. E. D. That afternoon, it was the second of July, a little over five weeks before the Germans tore up the Scrap of Paper and plunged the world into a cauldron of blood, Tom Graves was free once more. At the door he was met by Baron von Gotz-Wrede, whose right wrist had healed and whose ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1919 edition. Excerpt: ... chapter xxxix B. E. D. That afternoon, it was the second of July, a little over five weeks before the Germans tore up the Scrap of Paper and plunged the world into a cauldron of blood, Tom Graves was free once more. At the door he was met by Baron von Gotz-Wrede, whose right wrist had healed and whose left was still in a sling, and who acted as if nothing out of the way had happened, as if the whole episode, from the original insult to his faked-up death, had been nothing but an amiable idiosyncrasy--on the Westerner's part, well understood. He told Tom that all officers' private residence permits had been canceled. "You'll have to live at barracks with the rest of us, old fellow. The army is frightfully busy, putting a polish on itself." "I know." The other had spoken the truth, and Tom was aware of it. It was not because he was under suspicion that he had to move his traps to a bare ten-bytwelve square of cement, varnished wood, and iron cot in the Uhlan barracks. For all the other officers lived there too, from the Colonel down to the youngest Ensign just gazetted from the Lichterfelde Cadets School. Drill was continuous, pitiless, as he had watched it from his window at Spandau. Long, dusty rides in the morning. Knock off at noon for a bite, followed by lance and saber drill. Then special instruction in various subjects, examinations in French, map making, and kindred topics. More drill until supper time, and nearly every night, after taps, a final lecture by picked, spectacled Staff officers on the technique and tactics of war. There was little time even for talk. Yet, underlying the silent, steady, harsh grinding, Tom caught the faint note of terrible, bitter excitement, the stinking, sulphurous smoke of a hidden combustion soon to...
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