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martial?" asked Lord Tullibardine of the 

 others. 



Very readily they expressed a prefer- 

 ence for the award. 



"Well, then, it is fourteen days' 

 imprisonment. It will be entered in 

 your records; but, as you have done 

 fourteen days already, you start clear 

 to-morrow morning. All it will mean is 

 that you have lost fourteen days' pay." 



Then the Officer Commanding made 

 a speech. He told the men that, as then- 

 own regiment was ready to cut then' 

 throats, he was going to send them up 

 to the First Regiment He hoped that 

 there they would show themselves of use. 

 From their behaviour on trek there had 

 arisen an impression that they had lost 

 spirit on account of Baakenlagte, and 

 that they couldn't fight and wouldn't 

 go. " We have something to put right," 

 he said; "and I will give you your 

 chance." 



The chance arose soon after the 

 men had been taken to the First Regi- 



