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Heber Lanks spoke then: Colonel Romlar, do you have any comments? Yes. ***Artus Romlar sat in his winterized command tent at base camp. You are sure to arouse theinterest of townspeople. He hadn't come close to doing it, of course.

Just now, however, he slept restlessly, his hard234 pounds forcing an occasional squeak from the wooden joints of hisSmoleni army cot. Gooks were always other people. When they'd first slipped aboard, aboutthree o'clock one morning, the night had been chill. Perhaps when the war was over, he'd make a project offinding them, perhaps even enough for a battalion.