Revenge Is Sweet
"Yes," proudly announced the ex-captain, who is manager of a new seaside
hotel, "all our employees are former Service men, every one of them. The
reception clerk is an old infantry man, the waiters have all been
non-coms., the chef was a mess-sergeant, the house doctor was a base
hospital surgeon, the house-detective was an intelligence man; even the
pages were cadets."
"And have you any former military police?" he was asked.
"Yes," he replied joyously. "When there's a good stiff wind blowing we
set them to clean the outsides of the windows on the eighth floor!"
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