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Greenmantle

CHAPTER THIRTEEN
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There's a heap of coalpits behind the British front where they could generate power, and I judge there's ample water supply from the rivers and canals.

I'd guarantee to wash you away in twenty-four hours--yes, in spite of all your big guns.

It beats me why the British haven't got on to this notion.

They used to have some bright engineers.' Enver was on the point like a knife, far quicker than Gaudian.

He cross-examined me in a way that showed he knew how to approach a technical subject, though he mightn't have much technical knowledge.
He was just giving me a sketch of the flooding in Mesopotamia when an aide-de-camp brought in a chit which fetched him to his feet.
'I have gossiped long enough,' he said.


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