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Mr. Standfast

CHAPTER SEVEN
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He was the jolliest boy you ever saw, and as clever on crags as a chamois.

He is probably dead by now, dead in a filthy jaeger battalion.

That's you and your accursed war.' 'Well, we've got to get busy and end it in the right way,' I said.

'And you've got to help, my lad.' He was a good draughtsman, and with his assistance I drew a rough map of the crevice where we had roosted for the night, giving its bearings carefully in relation to the burn and the sea.

Then I wrote down all the details about Gresson and the Portuguese Jew, and described the latter in minute detail.


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