If you are English, ve kill you! You have kamerads--vere ?" "There's only the two of us," said Roscoe.

Tom seemed willing enough to let his companion do the talking, and indeed Roscoe, now that he had recovered his poise, seemed altogether the fitter of the two to be the spokesman.

"We got rattled, as this kid says." "If we'd followed that light we wouldn't have happened in on you.

We hope we don't intrude," he added sarcastically.
The officer glanced at the tiny light in the distance, then at one of the soldiers, then at another, then poured forth a gutteral torrent at them all.

Then he peered suspiciously into the darkness.
"For treachery, ve kill," he said.
"I told you there are only two of us," said Roscoe simply.
"Ach, two! Two millions, you mean! Vat?
Ach!" he added, with a deprecating wave of his hands.