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... Ellvers and the sergeant are left as the two last to be hauled up from a certain ledge . Ellvers looses his nerve and , when the rope comes down he can't move to tie it round him . He expects some volley of parade- ground abuse , but ...
... Ellvers and the sergeant are left as the two last to be hauled up from a certain ledge . Ellvers looses his nerve and , when the rope comes down he can't move to tie it round him . He expects some volley of parade- ground abuse , but ...
Page 126
... Ellvers it must have been all right . ' ' And you noticed nothing strange about the accident ? ' ' How do you mean , exactly ? ' ' I mean the rope breaking ; couldn't that've been avoided ? ' ' No , ' said Wilkins slowly . ' No , I ...
... Ellvers it must have been all right . ' ' And you noticed nothing strange about the accident ? ' ' How do you mean , exactly ? ' ' I mean the rope breaking ; couldn't that've been avoided ? ' ' No , ' said Wilkins slowly . ' No , I ...
Page 127
... Ellvers playing the sergeant who dies , and explained that we should need someone else to play the part of the recruit . When he heard Ellvers's name he repeated it and automatically ' fell him out ' , so that the man whose guilt I had ...
... Ellvers playing the sergeant who dies , and explained that we should need someone else to play the part of the recruit . When he heard Ellvers's name he repeated it and automatically ' fell him out ' , so that the man whose guilt I had ...
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