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Show 214 CHAPTER VI After the General's departure, the Detachments seemed to fall apart from sheer delight. They began to flaunt transgressions they had once kept decently hidden. One of the men was caught in his girl-friend's room with a case of Coke and an army-blanket; another attended a'ghost show," leaving Hal Parker's jeep parked brazenly outside. Corporal Biggs was seen in a teahouse, in kimono and tabi, learning Japanese. Bain and Jennings were picked up in a movie, Bain having entered because the feature was Swedish and, he expected, thought-provoking; Jennings because it was Swedish and (Phyllis) provoking. "What's come over 'em?" asked Sid. "Lost their marbles. Will the Colonel act?" "Nuts if he doesn't." Like a nervous girl undone by her nervousness the Detachments could not pull themselves together, and at the very peak of flagrancy undertook tltB most reprehensible adventure indeed. Knowing what they were doing, aware that it was illegal, but summoned by pleasure's whistle, they booked rooms at the Yuraku-en, a hotel in Miyazu. |