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Updated: May 13, 2025
"You will inform His Excellency," he said to Westerling's aide, "that they are coming for him all the people are coming, and we are powerless. And " Even Turcas's calmness failed him and his voice caught in a convulsive swallow. "I I understand!" the aide said thickly, and went up-stairs. He had suffered worse than in seeing his chief beaten; but even in disillusion he was loyal.
One by one, almost perfunctorily, Westerling gave his assent as he passed the papers to Turcas; while Turcas's dry voice, coming from between a narrow opening of the thin lips, gave his reasons with a rapid-firer's precision in answer to his chief's inquiries. With each order somewhere along that frontier some unit of a great organism would respond.
Worse still, with no faith to give him fortitude except the materialistic, he saw the altar of his god of military efficiency in ruins. He who had not allowed the word retreat to enter his lexicon now saw a rout. He had laughed at reserve armies in last night's feverish defiance, at Turcas's advocacy of a slower and surer method of attack.
Turcas's voice was drowned by a great roar of cries, with no word except "Westerling" distinguishable, that pierced every crack of the house. A wave of movement starting from the rear drove the veteran and the market woman and a dozen others through the doorway toward the stairs. Then the sound of a shot was heard overhead.
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