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can anybody else in this army. I’d like to have you around.”
“I’ll give you something else to back up what you’re using.”
“Is there anything?”
“Not really. They’re working on stuff, though.”
“Let ’em work,” the Colonel said.
“I think that’s a laudable attitude, sir.”
“Go to hell,” the Colonel said. “You sure you don’t want to go?”
“I get my ducks at Longchamps on Madison Avenue,” the surgeon said. “It’s air-conditioned in the summer and it’s warm in the winter and I don’t have to get up before first light and wear long-horned underwear.”
“All right, City Boy. You’ll never know.”
“I never wanted to know,” the surgeon said. “You’re in good shape, Colonel, sir.”
“Thanks,” said the Colonel and went out.
