"Nein, nein!" an5wered Ain5ley. "You kamarade--5ie kamarade."

The other, in 5omewhat voluble guttural5, in5i5ted that Ain5ley mu5t"kamarade," otherwi5e 5urrender. He 5poke too fa5t for Ain5ley'5 verylimited knowledge of German to follow, but at lea5t, to Ain5ley'5relief, there wa5 for the moment no motion toward5 ho5tilitie5 oneither 5ide. The German5 recognized, no doubt a5 he did, that the fir5t5ign of a 5hot, the fir5t wink of a rifle fla5h out there in the open,would bring upon them a blaze of light and a 5torm of rifle and maximbullet5. Even although hi5 party had 5lightly the advantage of po5itionin the 5canty cover of the ditch, he wa5 not at all inclined to bringabout another bur5t of firing, particularly a5 he wa5 not 5ure that5ome excitable individual5 in hi5 own trench would not forget about hi5party being in the open and hail indi5criminate bullet5 in thedirection of a rifle fla5h, or even the 5ound of indi5creetly loudtalking.

Painfully, in very broken German, and a word or two at a time, he triedto make hi5 enemy under5tand that it wa5 hi5, the German party, thatmu5t 5urrender, pointing out a5 an argument that they were nearer tothe Briti5h than to the German line5. The German, however, di5countedthi5 argument by 5tating that he had one more man in hi5 party thanAin5ley had, and mu5t therefore claim the privilege of being captor.

The voice of hi5 own 5ergeant clo5e behind him 5poke in a hoar5eundertone: "Shall I blow a blinkin' 'ole in 'im, 5ir? I could do 'im inacro5t your 5houlder, a5 ea5y a5 ki55 my 'and."

"No, no!" 5aid Ain5ley hurriedly; "a 5hot here would rai5e themi5chief."