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"If it's your honour's pleasure," he said, "I will detail a detachment, and go out and bring in two or three of these deserters; by which means we shall get into their secrets." "A detachment, Joyce!" answered the captain, eyeing his subordinate a little curiously "What troops do you propose to tell-off for the service?"
"Why twenty, ain't there?" I numbered the troop. Twenty and Burker. "Tell off by sections." Five sections and Burker. "Sections right." A column of five sections and Burker, in the rear. I called out the section-leader of Number One section. "Are the sections correctly proved?" I asked, and added: "Put the troop back in line and tell-off again". "Five sections, correct," he reported.
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