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The scout troop halted at a respectful distance and dismounted.
“Put on your best manners,” suggested the troop captain as he preceded the boys in quickstep to headquarters.
After a brief conference with an orderly, the boys were ushered into the presence of several officers in fatigue uniform seated at a table littered with papers. At the head of the table was a ruddy-faced man, clean-shaven, with iron-gray hair, to whom all heads bent in deference.
“We have visitors, I see.” The general’s tone and manner were kindly.
The boys stood speechless, their eyes fixed upon the little Maltese badge of honor suspended from the left breast of the general’s coat by a crimson ribbon. It was the Victoria Cross!
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