CHAPTER THIRTY-SIX
At a point he was unable to withstand the smell oozing from the injuries of some Shaingwans who stood before him. This made him to pull out the handkerchief his mother had given him, folded it and placed it over his nose, while a fair soldier laughed at him. In the course of counting, a fair soldier appeared and whispered some words into the ear of the first burly fair soldier that had informed Percy about the number of young ladies ‘indoors’. “The General says he doesn’t want any stench in or around the fortress… He says the savages should be allowed to go and bury their dead, or any who theirs from malnutrition or yesterday’s ‘search’. “No problem, once this ‘woman’ over here is through, the announcement would be made…” He watched his slim comrade walk away briskly and imagined buryin
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