From time to time, perhaps once a year, he would turn down the offer of dinner, 
put that uniform on, climb onto a horse, and ride off in the direction of the 
New Atlantis Clave. The horse would bring him back in the wee hours of the 
morning, so drunk he could barely remain in the saddle. Sometimes Nell would 
help get him into bed, and after he had
lapsed into unconsciousness, she could examine his pins and medals and ribbons 
by candlelight. The ribbons in particular used a fairly elaborate color-coding 
system. But the Primer had some pages in the back that were called the 
Encyclopædia, and by consulting these, Nell was able to establish that 
Constable Moore was, or at least had used to be, a brigadier general in the 
Second Brigade of the Third Division of the First Protocol Enforcement 
Expeditionary Force. One ribbon implied that he had spent some time as an 
exchange officer in a Nipponese division, but his home division was apparently 
the Third. According to the Encyclopædia, the Third was often known as 
the Junkyard Dogs or, simply, the Mongrels, because it tended to draw its 
members from the White Diaspora: Uitlanders, Ulster Loyalists, whites from Hong 
Kong, and rootless sorts from all of the Anglo-American parts of the world.