No longer would he be a policeman to his men.

He would try to forget their faults, and to remember only how sorely they needed their mothers and their God, and that they needed him, too.
He found the camp thrilling with great news, glorious news.

The day so long awaited had come.

The battalion was under orders for France.

At that very moment there was an officers' meeting in the orderly room.
As Barry entered the room, the O.C.was closing his speech.
Barry was immediately conscious of a new tone, a new spirit, in the colonel's words.