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But there was grisly hope left in the old Viking. "At present it is impossible," he said, while he believed that somewhere, somewhen, men may be found, in the mass, who will be glad to die for truth. And as you will see, in a story of a band of American buck-privates in another chapter, there are beginnings of such spirit even now. But when great armies of men so offer themselves, to fight death, just as they now delight to fight each other, it will be because they are led on by captains such as David Bruce.

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