Just now though his attention was on a most unusual major nodus. He looked the prisoner over, scanned the bill of particulars again, thenglanced up and found himself matching eyeballs with the man for amoment. What was that about? I told him. There are other races, too, some of them wanderers, which our seers andthose of the T'swa have perceived.
While he spoke, he watched the man for any sign of confusion,blankness, irritation, which would suggest he hadn't understood; the wordsand concepts would be unfamiliar to a true gook. At one end of it, men werecalling and gesturing, and from the ranked troops, squads quick-timedover to pick up gear and trot away with it. So itspersonnel, numbering about half that of a mobile infantry regiment, werebeing used as an over-strength infantry battalion, so the army's force herewas more like a light infantry brigade. Congratulations.
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