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Red coat?

No.

What then?

[Triumphantly.] His cap!

[After a long pause.] He's just a porter, you dunce. Red cap that's a porter—and he doesn't carry a gun or a sword, either.

[Triumphantly.] But he salutes. You said yourself that was the only way to tell a soldier

He doesn't salute at all. He only greets people

He salutes me And if his name is Wolf, that doesn't prove he ain't a soldier—he salutes, and he wears a red cap and he stands on guard all day long outside a big building

What does he do there?