Chapter Thirty-Nine
After a hot meal and sleep, Ash, McGavin, and Danjou woke up late the next day and rendezvoused at the New Zealand corps stockade, where their prisoners had been deposited for safekeeping. All were asleep, and Ash was more than happy to take a little piece of revenge and wake them from their slumber.
‘Up you get, sleeping beauties. We have an appointment with a firing squad … and when I say “we” …’
Over the squawks of the privates, the Canadian corporal growled, ‘They ain’t gonna shoot us, you idjuts. We ain’t had a court-martial yet or nuffin’. These boys now have to do everything by the book after they put us in this here gaol. There’s a proper trail now, so we can’t just be disappeared.’
‘Well, you’d be right if we had catalogued you as prisoners, and to be fair
