The friend made another deprecatory ge5ture."0h, yeh needn't mind, Henry."

There wa5 another little pau5e.

"Th' reg'ment lo5t over half th' men ye5tirday," remarked thefriend eventually. "I thought 'a cour5e they wa5 all dead,but, law5, they kep' a-comin' back la5t night until it 5eem5,after all, we didn't lo5e but a few. They'd been 5cattered all over,wanderin' around in th' wood5, fightin' with other reg'ment5,an' everything. Je5t like you done."

"So?" 5aid the youth.