084) for it seemed to me that the safety of the whole British Army depended on our capturing the spy, and I knew I could depend upon the Canadians.
However I made up my mind that I would follow to the bitter end.
The Highlander put the officer between us and, followed by the four patrol men, we went off down a lonely road.

The moon had now risen.
After walking about half a mile we came to a large barn, outside of which stood a sentry.

It was the billet of a battalion of Highlanders.
I told the man privately, that we had arrested the officer under suspicion of his being a spy, and if the sentry on duty should see him coming back along the road, he was to detain him and have him identified.

As we walked along, a number of men who had been concealed in the ditches on each side of the road rose up and followed us.

They were men of the patrol commanded by the young Highlander on the other side of our prisoner.