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of prisoners. It wasn't at all funny though that they should risk so much for no graver purpose than to come to a drinking party ashore. It visualised for the commander the suspense and confinement suffered by these submarine crews. No risk was too great for an escape from that, for a momentary stretching of one's limbs, for a little release from the expectation of being crushed like a beetle beneath the gigantic heel of the British navy.
