"What an idiot it makes a fellow feel to be strapped up like this!" "From what one reads of the fighting around Ypres," the other replied, "you were lucky to get out of it so well.

Let me explain, if I may, why I have paid you this rather untimely call." Captain Granet nodded amiably.

He had made himself comfortable in an easy-chair and was playing with the dog, who had jumped on to his knee.
"I had some conversation on Thursday last," Major Thomson began, "with the Provost-Marshal of Boulogne.

As you, of course, know, we have suffered a great deal, especially around Ypres, from the marvellous success of the German Intelligence Department.

The Provost-Marshal, who is a friend of mine, told me that there was a special warning out against a person purporting to be an American chaplain who had escaped from Belgium.