Fleury, coming out of a transverse cut, greeted him.

The Savoyard had escaped during the fighting on the Aisne, and had rejoined the command of General Vaugirard, wounded in the arm, but now recovered.
"Duty ?" he said to John.
"Yes.

Captain Colton has sent for me, but I don't know what he wants." "Don't get yourself captured again.

Twice is enough." "I won't.

There isn't much taking of prisoners while both sides keep to their holes." Fleury disappeared in one of the earthy aisles, and John went on, turning a little later into an aisle also, and arriving at Captain Cotton's post.
Daniel Colton had for his own use a wooden bench three feet long, set in an alcove dug in the clay.