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Updated: June 13, 2025
Wasn't the nation growing stale from the long peace? He was ready for war now that he had become vice-chief, when the retirement of His Excellency, unable to bear the weight of his years and decorations in the field, would make him the supreme commander.
She was weak now, with no spur to her energy except her happiness as she leaned on his arm. Then he felt an impulsive pressure as she looked up at him. "The law of service, as you say!" she said, turning to the vice-chief. "Isn't that the finest law of all? Couldn't I help you with the appeal? Perhaps I might put in it a thought to reach the women. They are a part of public opinion"
At the time he and Partow were seated facing each other across a map on the table of the room where they worked together. No persuasion of the young vice-chief, no edict of the doctors, could make the old chief take exercise or shorten his hours. "I know. I know myself!" he said. "I know my duty. And you are learning, my boy, learning!"
Confidence was reflected in Westerling's bearing and in his smile of command as he passed through the staff rooms, Turcas and Bouchard in his train, with tacit approval of the arrangements. Finally, Turcas, now vice-chief of staff, and the other chiefs awaited his pleasure in the library, which was to be his sanctum. On the massive seventeenth-century desk lay a number of reports and suggestions.
"Perhaps, unless you change the rules about officers dossing the frontier to take tea," she replied. "Even if I did, the vice-chief of staff might hardly go." "Then perhaps you must wait," she warned him, "until the teachers of peace have done away with all frontiers." "Or, if there were war, I should come!" he answered in kind.
Governments might come and go, but the army was the rock in the midst of the play of minor forces, the ultimate head of order and power. "A man who is able to lead in anything must be something of a politician," he said suavely. "Very true, indeed. Perhaps I had that partly in mind in making you vice-chief of staff," responded the premier enjoyably.
"I should like you all to sign it to make it simply the old form of 'the staff has the honor to report," he said finally. There was a hush as he finished the hush of a deep impression when one man waits for another to speak. All were looking at him except the vice-chief, who was still staring at the table as if he had heard nothing. Yet every word was etched on his mind.
They have had their fun out of me as chief, but I will have my turn." Next day the vice-chief had his turn. He declared the next three days to be a period of work.
Probably they have taken an outpost. Order a counter-attack!" exclaimed Westerling. "Nor is that the worst of it," said the vice-chief. "They are pressing at other well-chosen points. They threaten to pierce our centre." "Our centre!" gibed Westerling. "You do need rest. Our centre, where we have the column of last night's attack still concentrated!
Now Turcas, the assistant vice-chief of staff, and Bouchard, chief of the division of intelligence, standing on either side of Westerling's desk, awaited his decisions on certain matters which they had brought to his attention. Both were older than Westerling, Turcas by ten and Bouchard by fifteen years.
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