A Test to Destruction (2014)
“Chapter 2WHAT IS COURAGE?Late on the Friday afternoon a curly-haired, pink-cheeked young man, wearing the red tabs and hat-band of the General Staff, with field boots and spurs, came into the orderly room. Phillip recognized him at once as Devereux-Wilkins, whom he had seen last in October 1915, playing billiards in the Roebuck in the High Street at home. Wilkins, wearing red tabs then, had showed him a wristlet watch engraved as a gift from his platoon at Gallipoli, ‘a token of esteem.’ The lo...cal plain-clothes detectives were after him then, as a bogus officer and possible German spy. He had blandly told Phillip that they must have confused him with his brother, who was a secret agent, and having said that, he jumped on a passing tram for London.
And yet, if he had been bogus then, how came it that he was obviously now a staff-officer? Phillip began non-committally. “I don’t suppose you remember me?”
A quizzical look was directed towards him, as though the newcomer was fully aware that this crude opening gambit must be parried by a show of good manners.MoreLess
And yet, if he had been bogus then, how came it that he was obviously now a staff-officer? Phillip began non-committally. “I don’t suppose you remember me?”
A quizzical look was directed towards him, as though the newcomer was fully aware that this crude opening gambit must be parried by a show of good manners.MoreLess
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