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"There now! Didn't I tell you, Michael Mitrich, that if it was

said 'on the march' it meant in greatcoats?" said he

reproachfully to the battalion commander. "Oh, my God!" he added,

stepping resolutely forward. "Company commanders!" he shouted in

a voice accustomed to command. "Sergeants major!... How soon will

he be here?" he asked the aide-de-camp with a respectful

politeness evidently relating to the personage he was referring

to.

"In an hour's time, I should say."

"Shall we have time to change clothes?"

"I don't know, General...."