There was only the necessity of answering Croft,... There was only the necessity of answering Croft, who squatted inflexibly beside him like a sullen piece of metal, bending only slightly
"All right, we'll send out one man tonight through the pass; if he runs into anything, we turn back Was that rationalization? Really, was he only fooling himself, looking for another excuse to continue with the patrol?
"You want to go, Lootenant?" Croft's voice mocked him slightly
He couldn't go, howeverIf he was knocked off, that would suit Croft perfectly"I don't think I'm suited for it," he said coldly
Croft was reasoning the same wayIf he himself went and was killed, the platoon would certainly turn back"I think Martinez is about the best man for it"All right, send him
tiffany's jewelry outIn the morning we'll make a decisionAnd tell him to wake me when he gets back Hearn looked at his watch"I'm about due for guard nowTell him to check with me before he sets out so I'll know it's him moving around
Croft looked about the hollow and picked out Martinez's blankets in the moonlightHe stared at Hearn for an instant, and then strode over to Martinez and awakened himThe Lieutenant was climbing up the hill to relieve the guard
Croft told Martinez what his mission would be, and then in a low voice he added, "If you see any Japs bivouacking, try to work around them and keep on going Martinez was tying his shoes
"Just take a trench knife
"Okay, I be back in three hour maybeTell guard," Martinez
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Croft held his shoulder for a secondMartinez was shivering very slightly"Are you okay, boy?" he asked
"Well, now listen," Croft said"When you get back, don't say anything to anybody till you see meIf the Lootenant is up, you just say to him nothing happened, do you understand?" Croft's mouth was numb, and he felt the powerful anxiety of disobeying an orderMore than that, there was something else, unexpressed as yetHe exhaled his breath painfully
Martinez nodded, clenching and opening his fists to restore the sensitivity to his fingers"I go now," he said, standing up
"You're a good boy, Japbait It was eerie, whispering in the darknessThe bodies lying about them seemed dead
Martinez wrapped his rifle in his blanket
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There it was before him againYou made a decision and backtracked on it and none of the problems was changedIf Martinez came back and reported no Japs in the pass, they would be moving forward in the morningHe scratched his armpit tenderly, staring down at the valley and the empty mournful hills about himThe wind soughed through the
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It was a mistake, and he had played a curious deception with himselfIt had been more than yielding to Croft, he had yielded to himself again, made it so complicated that he could never untangle the rationalization from what was validTricks and tricks, more ways than one to skin a cat, and he had allowed it, knew that he would go forward in the morning if Martinez brought back a report of no Jap activity
When they finally got back to their bivouac, if they ever did, he could turn in his commissionThat was the thing he could do, that would be honest, true to
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