The war had brought them closer together. The Colonel commanded the local Home Guard and considered that he owed his life to his pakeha friends, and though he thought them funny, loved them. It did not offend him, therefore, when Colonel Claire furtively read a novel under his very nose. He rumbled on magnificently with his story, in amiable competition with Texas Rangers and six-shooter blondes.
(from Colour Scheme, by Dame Ngaio Marsh)
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