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He said nothing. The guard turned to Hilary again. "Answer me," he barked. "My friend told the truth," Grendon said simply. "Your tag?" "I have none." Suspicion flared openly in the pink eyes. "Where is it?" "I never had one." "Ah!" There was a world of meaning to the exhalation. "You know of course that every Earthman must be registered. The penalty for non-obedience is death."
But the wild yell of the Orderly, "Turn out for roll-call!" with the thought of the penalties for non-obedience which some of them had abundant reason to remember quickly brought out the laggards. Si and Shorty were, as usual, among the first to take their places in line.
These precautions would have been unnecessary, had they been deemed subject to martial law, and the penalty for non-obedience would not have been merely a privation of their pensions, but they would have fallen under the punishment of death, as deserters from the service.
"You will arrest all travellers up and down the Valley. None is to pass, going north or going south." "Very well, sir." "I wish the cavalry outposts to have no communication with the infantry. If they know nothing of the latter's movements they cannot accidentally transmit information. You will give this order, and you will be held accountable for its non-obedience." "Very well, sir."
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