KERCHIVAL. He didn't give the countersign. News from Lieutenant
Bedloe, General!
BARKET. [Hurrying in, up slope.] Colonel Wist, our brave byes wiped out the enemy, and here's the papers.
KERCHIVAL. [Taking papers.—Then to LOCKWOOD.] Is that the key?
LOCKWOOD. Yes. Lieutenant! [LIEUTENANT hurries up to elevation, looking through his glass. LOCKWOOD opens book.
HAVERILL. What of Lieutenant Bedloe, Sergeant?
BARKET. Sayreously wounded, and in the hands of the inimy!
HAVERILL. [Sighing.] A—h.
BARKET. [Coming down stone steps.] It is reported that Captain
Heartsease was shot dead at his side.
KERCHIVAL. Heartsease dead!
LIEUTENANT OF SIGNAL CORPS. [Reading signals.]
Twelve—Twenty-two—Eleven.