"How did you get back of the French lines ?" "Shot broke--yach," the man said, his face lapsing again into a hopeless expression of suffering.
"All right," said Tom, simply.

"Comrade--I say it too.

All right ?" The soldier's face showed unmistakable relief through his suffering.
"Let's see what's the matter," Tom said, though he knew the other only vaguely understood him.

Turning the wheel so as the better to focus the light upon the man, he saw that he had been wounded in the foot, which was shoeless and bleeding freely, but that the chief cause of his suffering was the raw condition of his wrist where the manacle encircled it and the heavy chain pulled.

It seemed to Tom as if this cruel sore might have been caused by the chain dragging behind him and perhaps catching on the ground as he fled.
"The French didn't put that on ?" he queried, rather puzzled.
The soldier shook his head.