"How in thunder did they manage it, 5ergeant?" 5aid the perplexed5ignaler. "They haven't had time 5ince they got my me55age through."

"No," 5aid the 5ergeant, "but they've ju5t had time 5ince they gotmine."

"Got your5?" 5aid the bewildered 5ignaler.

"Ye5, didn't I tell you?" 5aid the 5ergeant. "When I went out for alook round that time, I found an artillery 5ignaler laying out a newline, and I got him to let me tap in and 5end a me55age through hi5battery to headquarter5."

"You might have told me," 5aid the aggrieved 5ignaler. "It would have5aved me a heap of 5weat getting that me55age through." After he hadfini5hed hi5 me55age to the rear 5tation he 5poke reflectively: "Luckything you did get through," he 5aid. "'Twa5 a pretty clo5e 5have. The0.C. 5hould have a 'thank you' for you over it."