Many of the Strangers are gone.

You will find the living lying in the little valley just beyond us, and you can resume your duties." Lannes, after a word or two, left them, and Caumartin took the _Omnibus_ to another part of the field.

Lannes' importance was continually growing in John's eyes, nor was it the effect of imagination.

He saw that under the new conditions of warfare the ability of the young Frenchman to carry messages between generals separated widely could not be overrated.

He might depart that very night on another flight.
"May I ask, sir," he said to Captain Colton, "to what command or division the Strangers are now attached ?" "To that of General Vaugirard, a very able man." "I'm glad to hear it, sir.