“It’s all right, sergeant. O Lord! it’s the colonel. I wasn’t asleep, colonel.”
“I have not accused you. But you will explain what you were doing.”
“Colonel,” said Dard, all in a flutter, “I was taking a squint at them, because I saw something. The beggars are building a wall, now.”
“Where?”
“Between us and the bastion.”
“Show me.”
“I can’t, colonel; the moon has gone in; but I did see it.”
“How long was it?”
“About a hundred yards.”
“How high?”