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CHAPTER TWOIt was so splendid, David mused triumphantly later, how everything had gone according to plan. The soldiers crept into their positions and when he had appeared, the Colonel asked him to stand beside him. All they could see faintly in the moonlight was the empty hillsides around them. Then, when the men were all in position, there was a poignant silence that combined with the hush that always comes just before dawn. To David it was as if the world drew in its breath. Suddenly there was a faint movement in some thick grass and just a suspicion of shadows moving from behind rocks in the distance. Every man at his post, wherever he was, stiffened. It was impossible not to sense the thrill that every soldier knows so well before he goes into action. The moon was fading fast a