1:14:01
Aim!
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Fire!
1:14:09
I'm awfully glad you could be there,
George.
1:14:12
This sort of thing is always rather grim,
but this one had a kind of splendour to it.
1:14:17
I have never seen an affair
of this sort handled any better.
1:14:20
The men died wonderfully.
1:14:22
One of them could have done something
that would leave a bad taste.
1:14:25
- This time you couldn't ask for better.
- (knocking)
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Yes?
1:14:32
- Yes, Colonel?
- You wanted to see me, sir.
1:14:34
Oh, yes, yes!
Come in, Colonel, and sit down.
1:14:39
Colonel Dax. Your men died very well.
1:14:45
- Would you like some coffee, Colonel?
- No, thank you.
1:14:48
By the way, I've been told
that you ordered your artillery
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to fire on your own men
during the attack on the Ant Hill.
1:14:56
I did what? Who told you that?
1:15:00
Colonel Dax came to me
last night with the story.
1:15:04
Colonel Dax, I've always known
that you were a disloyal officer,
1:15:09
but I never dreamed that you
would stoop to anything this low.
1:15:12
General, I have sworn statements from
Captain Nichols, your artillery spotter,
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Captain Rousseau,
the battery commander.
1:15:19
I think it's infamous. Absolutely infamous.
1:15:21
Then there's no truth in the charge?
1:15:23
I don't see how you can even ask me that.
1:15:26
You cannot imagine
how glad I am to hear that.
1:15:28
I'm certain that
you'll come through it all right.
1:15:31
- Through what?
- There'll have to be an inquiry.
1:15:33
- An inquiry?
- These things never amount to much.
1:15:36
- The public forgets.
- Public?
1:15:38
You have the right to clear your name.
1:15:39
You cannot allow such insinuations
against your character to go undenied.
1:15:45
So that's it.
1:15:48
You're making me the goat -
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the only completely innocent man
in this whole affair.
1:15:57
I have only one last thing
to say to you, George.