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MORE MYSTERY
ON the way home we meets the same two soldiers. They surrounded us, savage.
"You didn't enlist!" challenges the one. "You lied to us. You lied all around."
"On the contrary," smiles Jon, "we done better than we promised."
"How do you make that out?" says the savage one.
"We both enlisted instead of only one."
"You've got to prove it!" says the other one. "We won't believe you again."
"You'll find our names at the top of the list, you idiot," says I, "if you go to town and look. Prove it to yourselves—or go to the devil!"
"Yes, yes," said Jon, ready with the oil. "They know what to do, daddy." To them he says: "What my father said is true. But we are in your hands. What are your orders?"
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