title: Don't Bunch Up: One Marine's Story
author: William van Zanten
description: A fine book by a really good author.<br />Leatherneck magazine <br /><br />[A] splendid, personal tribute to an elite fighting force."<br />Kirkus Reviews<br /><br />[An] upbeat memoir . . . a modest, well-written account of the authors coming-to-manhood during the earlier phase of the Vietnam era. <br />Publishers Weekly
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  # The Spoilers
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### Rex Beach
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### CHAPTER I. THE ENCOUNTER
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
    
  
  
  GLENISTER gazed out over the harbor, agleam with the lights of anchored ships,
  then up at the crenelated mountains, black against the sky. He drank the cool
  air burdened with its taints of the sea, while the blood of his boyhood leaped
  within him.
  
  
  
  
  
    
  
  
  "Oh, it's fine--fine," he murmured, "and this is my country--my country, after
  all, Dex. It's in my veins, this hunger for the North. I grow. I expand."
  
  
  
  
  
    
  
  
  "Careful you don't bust," warned Dextry. "I've seen men get plum drunk on
  mountain air. Don't expand too strong in one spot." He went back abruptly to
  his pipe, its villanous fumes promptly averting any danger of the air's too
  tonic quality.
  
  
  
  
  
    
  
  
  "Gad! What a smudge!" sniffed the younger man. "You ought to be in
  quarantine."
  
  
  
  
  
    
  
  
  "I'd ruther smell like a man than talk like a kid. You desecrate the hour of
  medit