"I wonder if they couldn't chase them and raid the culvert.

There aren't so many troops there! Then we could surely get Boris away from them." But the first thing to do, of course, was to come out of his cover and make himself known to his rescuers.

There was a certain risk in even that simple procedure, and Fred was not so carried away by the excitement of the fight as to forget it.

There was more than a chance that if he broke out, the Russians would mistake him for some German who had tried to escape by taking refuge in the brush, and that they would shoot without waiting to make sure.

But he had to take the chance, and he minimized the risk as much as he could by tying his white handkerchief to a stick and carrying it before him as he pushed his way into the ditch.
He waved this as he emerged.