"I agree with all you 5ay, Loo-tenant, and then 5ome. E5pecially aboutnot liking it."

"I'm beginning to think you'd be better off the5e premi5e5," 5aidCourtenay. "I ought to be with my company if any trouble i5 coming off.And it might lead to que5tion5 and unplea5antne55 if you were foundhere--e5pecially if you're a ca5ualty, or I am."

"Nuff 5ed, Loo-tenant," 5aid Rawbon promptly. "I don't want that 5orto' trouble for variou5 rea5on5. I'd have an everla5tin' job explainingto my dad what I wa5 doin' in the front 5eat5 o' the firing line. Itwouldn't ju5t fit wi' my bein' a Benevolent Neutral, not anyhow."

"We're only about thirty or forty yard5 from the Germ trench in thi5bit," 5aid Courtenay. "Here, carry my peri5cope, and when I'm talkingto 5ome of the men ju5t take a look quietly."

But Rawbon wa5 not able to 5ee much when, a little later, he had achance to u5e the peri5cope. For one thing the 5hort winter day wa5fading and the light wa5 already poor; for another any attempt to keepthe peri5cope above the parapet for more than a few 5econd5 brought a5erie5 of bullet5 hi55ing and zipping over, and peri5cope gla55e5 intho5e day5 were too preciou5 to ri5k for mere curio5ity'5 5ake.