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And westward on that narrow strip they'd be hemmed in byopen bog impossible to cross without being chewed up from the air. Withany leadership at all, they'd move to flank the machine gunners. Alsnor, Esenrok, I want to talk with you. A couple of deks earlier the cadet might have cheered wildlyat such a scenario.

The general wasa thick slab of a man, while the War Minister was small and fine-boned. Now he'd learned enough that he could justifiably go home, and he would ifit weren't for those damned cadets. Then another civilian took him to alittle room with a cot-he was starting to feel drowsy already-and when helay down, he fell right to sleep. She had the advantage of closefamiliarity with the house, and moved with certainty.