However, no explanation presenting itself to their minds, and, the matter being of no great importance after all, they turned their attention to the business in hand.
Working their way through the trees they reached a little coppice close to the road.

They lay down on the ground back of the coppice, wormed their way into it, and waited.
"Here we part," said Marteau.

"There are but two of us.

We must get all the information we can.

I will find out what division this is in front of us, and I will go back along the road to the eastward and ascertain where the other divisions are, and by nightfall I will return to Sezanne to report to the Emperor." "And what am I to do ?" asked the grenadier.