‘Ah, well—what I mean to say, shows the right spirit,
doesn’t it? Mischievous little beggars they are, both of them,
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but talk about keenness! All they think about is the Spies,
and the war, of course. D’you know what that little girl of
mine did last Saturday, when her troop was on a hike out
Berkhamsted way? She got two other girls to go with her,
slipped off from the hike, and spent the whole afternoon
following a strange man. They kept on his tail for two hours,
right through the woods, and then, when they got into Amersham,
handed him over to the patrols.’
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