We are trusting our lives and honor to one another, but what may be outside I know not.

We must do nothing to attract any attention.

Therefore, restrain yourselves, I beg.

Captain Marteau, for it is indeed he, gentlemen, has brought back to the regiment----" He paused a moment, with an instinctive feeling for the dramatic.
Perhaps the little scene had been prearranged.

Marteau had carried his hand behind his back.