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Twenty-Three and a Half Hours' Leave (Classic Reprint)
TwentyThree and a Half Hours' Leave - Classic Reprint Author:Mary Roberts Rinehart TWENTY -THREE AND A HALF HOURS' LEAVE I T HE Headquarters Troop ,vere preparing to leave camp and move towards the East, where at an Atlantic port they would take ship and the third step toward saving democracy. Nov the Headquarters Troop are a cavalry organisation, their particular function being, so far as the lay mind can grasp it, to form a ... more »circle round the general and keep shells from falling on him. Not that this close affiliation gives them any right to friendly relations with that aloof and powerful personage. "It just gives him a few more to yell at that can't yell back," grumbled the stable sergcant~ He had been made stable sergeant because he had been a motorcycle racer. By the same process of careful selection the chief mechanic had once kept a livery stable.
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