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PARTIES CONVERGING ON THE SEA
As the handcuffs clinked on his wrists I said my last word to him.
"I hope Franz will bear his triumph well. I ought to tell you that the Ariadne for the last hour has been in our hands."
Three weeks later, as all the world knows, we went to war. I joined the New Army the first week, and owing to my Matabele experience got a captain's commission straight off. But I had done my best service, I think, before I put on khaki.
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