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The Bravest of the Brave

CHAPTER XIII: THE FRENCH CONVOY
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They will urge their governments to action, and vote willingly the necessary sums for carrying on the war.

Let them hear that with you too war is massacre, that you take no prisoners, and kill all that fall into your hands, and, believe me, the public will soon grow sick of the war carried on with such cruelty on both sides." "You are right, my son," the priest said frankly.

"Young as you are, you have seen more of the world than I, who, since I left the University of Salamanca, have never been ten miles from my native village.

I will do what I can to put a stop to this matter.

But I am not solely in command here.


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