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Updated: May 27, 2025
In two or three minutes the wireless operator at headquarters signaled back for them to go on with the message. "About ten thousand enemy troops proceeding through eight inches snow, bound northwest around eastern base of mountain," Lieutenant Mackinson's message ran. "Am observing and will report progress. Any orders?"
For, just as the sudden ending of their instructions in class in the morning had led to their assignment to a transport, to start overseas within thirty-six hours, so the call now which required Lieutenant Mackinson's presence elsewhere, indirectly led to a new and thrilling experience for the lads.
The other boys looked on in chagrin, while Lieutenant Mackinson's countenance took on an amused smile, as Joe wrote down the word "DETAIL," and then nothing else but the initials "N. N.," which ended the message. "Don't make sense," announced Slim in a discouraged voice. "You must have missed part of it." "No, I didn't," Joe replied, looking anxiously toward the lieutenant.
"I don't know," Joe answered. "I discovered him in the battery room. We fought in the dark." With the aid of the others he raised himself to a sitting posture, then stood up and walked rather unsteadily across the room, took a long quaff of cold water and dropped heavily into Lieutenant Mackinson's Morris chair.
If one went alone, and anything happened to him on the way, the other might wait here indefinitely, not knowing whether he had got assistance or not. By going together they took the safest course." And Lieutenant Mackinson's reasoning was correct.
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