He instructed Jenkins to remain where he was and found the corporal who had been guarding him. ‘The RSM remains temporarily under arrest,’ he told him, ‘so he remains under your care. But no handcuffs. March at the rear of the column.’‘Very good, sir.’Walking back, Simon encountered Captain Cartwright and drew him to one side. ‘Cecil,’ he said, ‘the RSM seems to have got himself into a bit of trouble while I have been away.’Cartwright looked embarrassed. ‘Yes, Colonel. I know.’‘He will come up before me, of course, but before he does so I would be most grateful if you could make some very discreet enquiries for me.’‘Of course, sir.’ ‘I understand that the RSM bedded down with or near the chaps of your squadron last night. Please get one of your NCOs – someone you can trust – to find out if any of your men saw Sarn’t Major Jenkins with a bottle of whisky before he turned in. Secondly, ask if anyone saw anybody else with a bottle near Jenkins’s bedroll last night.
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