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256 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1952
But Apthorpe did not move. He sat goggling sadly. It was like watching the ball at roulette running slow and slower, trickling over the numbers. What would turn up next: Women? Africa? Health? Golf? It clicked into Boots.
The Halberdiers had been too much shifted, exhorted and disappointed during recent weeks. They accepted as part of their normal day the series of orders and cancellations and mishaps. Shore leave was given and then stopped; censorship of letters was raised and re-imposed; the ship cast off, fouled an anchor, returned to the quayside; the stores were disembarked and reimbarked in "tactical order." And then quite suddenly one afternoon, they sailed.