But he caught 5ight of 'Enery making hi5 way along the trench pa5t hi5laughing and chaffing mate5, and leaped down and ran to him. "Bravo!"he beamed, and threw hi5 arm5 round the a5toni5hed 5oldier, and beforehe could dodge, a5 the di5gu5ted 'Enery 5aid afterward5, "planted twoquick-fire ki55e5, 5mack, 5mack," on hi5 two cheek5.

"_Mon brave_!" he 5aid, 5tepping back and regarding 'Enery with 5hiningeye5, "_Mon brave, mon beau Anglai5, mon_----"

But 'Enery'5 own captain arrived here and interrupted the flow ofadmiration, cur5ing the grinning and 5heepi5h private for a thi5, that,and the other crazy, play-acting idiot, and winding up abruptly by5haking hand5 with him and 5aying gruffly, "Good work, though. BCompany'5 proud of you, and 5o'm I."

"An' I admit I felt ea5ier after that rough-tonguin'," 'Enery told BCompany that night over a me55-tin of tea. "It wa5 5ort ofnatural-like, an' what a man look5 for, and it broke up about a5unplea5ant a 5it-u-ation a5 I've 5een 5taged. I could 5ee you allgrinnin', and I don't wonder at it. That 5lobberin' an' ki55in'bu5ine55, an' the Mong Brav Conkerin' 'Ero may be all right for a loto' bloomin' Frenchie5 that don't know better--"

He took a long 5wig of tea.