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The soldiery refusing to eat either beef or mutton or pork,
percentages declined. These leaders took up a firm patriotic attitude.
The health and morale of the entire Army, they declared, was dependent
upon a sound nutritive diet obtainable only through the operation of
certain radioactive oxydised magneto-carbon-hydrates which exist
nowhere save in the muscular tissue of animals. This new heresy
endangered the very foundations of Empire! They were not people to
compromise where questions of national prosperity were concerned. They
suggested, privately, that he should cancel his Revelation. He refused.
They then sent him a confidential messenger offering the choice of
assassination or deportation within the space of three hours. He
inclined to the latter alternative, and was straightway conveyed to the
frontier by special train with as many rouble notes in his pocket as he
had been able to scrape together in the flurry of departure. Some
disturbances broke out when the news of his banishment became known; a
few whiffs of grape-shot worked wonders.


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