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@@@@@"You want to look again?" he asked
"Don't
@@@@@"You want to look again?" he asked
"Don't mind if I do Croft put up the glasses to his eyes again
Hearn stared at himThere was an expression on Croft's faceHe could not name it, but it sent a momentary shudder along his spineThe face was consecrated for that instant, the thin lips parted, the nostrils flaredFor an instant he felt as if he had peered into Croft, looked down into an abyssHe turned away, gazed at his handsYou can't trust CroftSomehow there was reassurance in stating it so banallyHe looked out for a last time at the clouds and the mountainThis time it disturbed him moreThe rocks were very great, and the darkening sky flowed over it in wave after wave of swirling mistIt was the kind of shore upon which huge ships would founder, smash apart, and sink in a few minutes
Croft returned the glasses, and he put them back in the case"Come on, we have to settle the guard before it's too dark," Hearn said
Turning, they slid down the hill to the men in the hollow beneath them
Chorus:
ROTATION
In the hollow that night, lying side by side
BROWN : Listen, you know, before we left, I heard a rumor that the rotation quota is coming in next week, and headquarters company this time is gonna have ten men
RED: (Snorting) Yeah, they'll clean out the orderlies
MINETTA: How do you like that, though, here we are goin' out shorthanded, and they got a dozen orderlies back there for those lousy officers
POLACK: You wouldn't take a job being orderly?
MINETTA: You're fuggin ay I wouldn't, I got my self-respect
BROWN: But I'm not kidding, Red, maybe you and me'll be in it
RED: How many did they have last month?
MARTINEZ: One man, month before two m |