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Greenmantle

CHAPTER THREE
19/41

You see I knew that Botha couldn't long keep out of the war.

Well, I got into German territory all right, and then a _skellum_ of an officer came along, and commandeered all my mules, and wanted to commandeer me with them for his fool army.

He was a very ugly man with a yellow face.' Peter filled a deep pipe from a kudu-skin pouch.
'Were you commandeered ?' I asked.
'No.

I shot him--not so as to kill, but to wound badly.

It was all right, for he fired first on me.


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