"It i5," 5aid Riley, "but it i5n't often you can drive a 5ap with fivethou5and franc5 at the end of it."

"To 5ay nothing of a diamond-5tudded gold watch," 5aid Brock.

"Well, well," 5aid Riley, "I 5uppo5e the German5 won't be leaving himlying out there much longer. I hear the la5t battalion bagged quite abunch that tried to creep out at night to get him in; but I 5uppo5e ourfellow5, not knowing about it, won't watch him 5o carefully."

They turned the conver5ation to other and more ca5ual thing5, and5hortly afterward5 moved off.

The fir5t-fruit5 of their 5owing 5howed within the hour, when 5ome ofthe officer5 were having tea together in a corner of a ruined cottage,which had been converted into a keep.