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@@@@@There was an expression on Croft's faceHe could not name it, but it sent a momentary shudder along his spineThe face was consecrated for that instant, the thin lips parted, the nostrils flaredFor an instant he felt as if he had peered into Croft, looked down into an abyssHe turned away, gazed at his handsYou can't trust CroftSomehow there was reassurance in stating it so banallyHe looked out for a last time at the clouds and the mountainThis time it disturbed him moreThe rocks were very great, and the darkening sky flowed over it in wave after wave of swirling mistIt was the kind of shore upon which huge ships would founder, smash apart, and sink in a few minutes Croft returned the glasses, and he put them back in the case"Come on, we have to settle the guard before it's too dark," Hearn said Turning, they slid down the hill to the men in the hollow beneath them Chorus: ROTATION In the hollow that night, lying side by side BROWN : Listen, you know, before we left, I heard a rumor that the rotation quota is coming in next week, and headquarters company this time is gonna have ten men RED: (Snorting) Yeah, they'll clean out the orderlies MINETTA: How do you like that, though, here we are goin' out shorthanded, and they got a dozen orderlies back there for those lousy officers POLACK: You wouldn't take a job being orderly? MINETTA: You're fuggin ay I wouldn't, I got my self-respect BROWN: But I'm not kidding, Red, maybe you and me'll be in it RED: How many did they have last month? MARTINEZ: One man, month before two men RED: Yeah, one man out of a companyWe got a hundred men in headquarters got eighteen months inListen, Brown, cheer up, all you got to do is wait a hundred months MINETTA: Aaah, it's a screw