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Show 182 the Major was literal-minded, and knew nothing to answer but "No," which made the Colonel's pleasantry turn sour after all. They sat silent. "The situation," the Colonel said after a momsnt, "is intolsrabls. I won't bring up our sarlisr problems, for this ons's mors basic. A question, ultimately, of command. This double-chain is offensive, and I have a mind to act," The Major's fatal bull-headedness came to the fore. "You tried it once," he said. "Try again," "You know your mission, and I want no truck with that. Put for the rest, time has come for a change. It'd be easy" -- he blew a riream-wrsath into the air, and gazed musingly - "to attach you to us for quarters and administration. That would end this nonsense." The Major sat, basalt, staring. "I don't think you can swing it." "I think I can." "G2 hasn't complained." "Not yet. Put for - I'll admit - irregularities in Higashi, they might've." "Thers's always dirt. On both sides of a fence." The Colonel looked the Major in the face. "I don't think there is. I've disciplined Smead and stripped his house. Mo investigation would turn up a thing. I run a tight organization -- which is more than you irio. Within a week I could take over." "That would be for G2 to decide." |