Most of Brennan's section did not even turn. Two of them had been at Rathduff. One had been at the junction. But a young soldier at the end of the wall, one who had come in on the truck that afternoon, swung his rifle round, and his face went white.
"*They're ours, Kiely!*" Brennan roared. "*Shoot the ones with skin on!*"
Kiely lowered his rifle.
James sent the two skeletons north-west along the field wall, the way the British had been trying to work round the line, so the British would have to deal with them before they could get round.
The British dealt with them.
They did not panic. A section of British infantry along the far ditch saw them coming and opened up on them. One skeleton lost its left arm at the elbow and kept going. The other took a burst through the ribs that blew half of them out the back. It staggered and kept going.
But every British rifle that was pointed at them was not pointed at Brennan.
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