You are going as men who have formerly served; but have since been living in a village, tilling the land, just as you were when you first joined me." "Then we have the very clothes ready to hand," Jacques said.

"When we joined you, we left ours with a friend in the town, to hold for us.

There is no saying how long military service may last and, as our clothes were serviceable, we laid them by.

We can go round and get them, the first thing in the morning; leaving these we wear in his care, until we return." "That will do well; but you must be up early, for it is important we should make our start as soon as possible." "I also have my old clothes held in keeping for me, by one who worked in the stable with me," Pierre said.

"A man who is going to the war can always find others ready to take charge of whatever he may leave behind, knowing full well that the chances are that he will never return to claim them." "That simplifies matters," Maitre Bertram said.