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"But I was at the War Office for a bit before I was demobilized and I heard fellows speak of him. Counter-espionage, isn't he?" "That's right," nodded Herr Schulz. "You can read his letter to me introducing Miss Trevert." He handed a sheet of paper to Robin. You will have read about it in the English papers.
This imperial army then had authority over the regional and feudal troops, the troops of the protectorates, the guards of the capital, and those of the imperial palace. At the end of the war the imperial army was demobilized and the generals-in-chief were transferred to other posts. In all this there gradually developed a division into civil and military administration.
The purpose of the section of the community to which these demobilized soldiers mainly belonged grew visibly definite as consciousness of their collective force grew and became keener. Occasionally it manifested itself openly in symptomatic spurts.
Saxon, Egbert, and Athelstane were finally demobilized, and they had gone straight to Lynstones to join the rest of the family at the farmhouse rooms. What was to happen after the delirious joy of the holiday was over, Ingred did not know. She had several times mentioned to her mother the prospect of their return to Rotherwood, but Mrs.
Resignation had thereupon made way for a rebellious mood and rebellion found sustenance everywhere. The poilu demobilized retained his military spirit, nay, he carried about with him the very atmosphere of the trenches. He had rid himself of the sentiment of fear and the faculty of reverence went with it.
Meanwhile that "army of spies" through which the Kaiser boasted that he ruled "supreme" here, and which, though he is gone, is by no means a demobilized army, but a very busy and well-drilled and well-conducted army, is very glad that our boys and girls should be taught false history, and will do its best to see that they are not taught true history. Mr.
"There," he went on in a soft voice, "it is so quiet in the fields, and from every hill you look at the sea.... I like that, don't you?" he turned to Andrews, with a smile. "You are lucky to be free," said Andrews bitterly. He felt as if he would burst into tears. "But you will be demobilized soon; the butchery is over. You will go home to your family. That will be good, hein?" "I wonder.
MacRae could not afterward recall clearly how it began, something about the war and the after-effect of the war. British Columbia nowise escaped the muddle into which the close of the war and the wrangle of the peacemakers had plunged both industry and politics. There had been a recent labor disturbance in Vancouver in which demobilized soldiers had played a part. "You can't blame these men much.
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