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Greenmantle

CHAPTER SEVENTEEN
19/36

If I please one I offend the other, and the result is a damnable confusion.

You can go on to Erzerum, but I shall send a man with you to see that you report to headquarters there.

I'm sorry, gentlemen, but I'm obliged to take no chances in this business.

Rasta's got a grievance against you, but you can easily hide behind the lady's skirts.

She passed through this town two days ago.' Ten minutes later we were coasting through the slush of the narrow streets with a stolid German lieutenant sitting beside Me.
The afternoon was one of those rare days when in the pauses of snow you have a spell of weather as mild as May.


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