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From: Nanny Valdez
Subject: [Aleona-CVS] wavelength
Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2006 17:51:30 +0300

Once, when he was on duty with his old company,Bourne went out on patrol with Mr Finch. Just because theywouldnt serve im, e wants the best theyve got. There wasa tree there, undamaged, and they sat with their backs against it.
Could I get our rations now, sergeant-major? You chaps know ow to make yourselves comfortable.
Theworst feature of the business was the delay; it fretted them intoimpatience.
When he got back to the cellar, he found that Martlow had broughtin a stray terrier.
It was very dark, and the rain was fine, searching andcold. Apparently the whole ofColincamps was going west, clouds of smoke and dust rose from it. Yes: it was Weepers imagination, not his will, which kept himgoing.
Youre getting wind-up, said Shem, laughing.
If it comes to that, were all windy, grunted Martlow, loyally. It wasquite time somebody was made to pay a little attention to theirbloody mob.
Lets have a spree tonight, said Bourne, even if we never haveanother.
It wasan plain, matter-of-fact conversation.
He was in much the same mood as the others were.
I am not going near the bloody place again. He did not mind the rain and he lovedthe quiet.
Evans turned away, laughing; he could not wait longer, as he wasalready a bit behind time. Collapsing houses had spilt their bricks half across the street.
The sergeant was not there when he arrived, so he waited, talkingto Pritchard and Minton. AsCorporal Williams had said of Mailly-Maillet, it was simply lousywith guns.
He was in much the same mood as the others were.
That sounded like a regular stunt, he said. When he got back to the cellar, he found that Martlow had broughtin a stray terrier. There will be a message to take up the line, soon, said Bourneto Shem.
He saw Millercrossing the yard, and looked curiously at that degenerate face.
Monster guns, too,were secreted somehow in the courtyards of houses in the villageitself.
His interview with Major Shadwell did him a lot of good.
An Im tellin emeverythin s all right, an so t is, up to the present. They finished the beer and went into the street, Bourne pointingout where his billet was. On the hillside just beyond the controls dugouta man lay dead.
Then Ill take the midnight message to Brigade, said Shem. Could I get our rations now, sergeant-major? Mon, said the Scotsman, after a long silence; it wereproveedential. We left the barn we werein, and moved into a cellar; and we need a bit of light. Then, when they had finished their cigarette, the big Scotsmanrose.

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