"You're bloody well right!" mumbled the first man.
"Damn!" said the Frenchman with asperity. "I don't understand you at all."
The third man laughed softly.
"Well, I don't know how else to explain it, then," he said. "The last time we—"
"The last time!" interrupted the Frenchman. "I did not get a very good look at you when that flare went up, I'll admit; but enough so that I would swear I had never seen you before."
"Quite so!" acknowledged the third man.
"Gawd!" whimpered the first man. "Look at that! Listen to that!"
A light, lurid, intense for miles around opened the darkness—and died out. An explosion rocked the earth.
"Ammunition dump!" said the Frenchman. "I'm sure of it now. I've never seen any of you before."
The third man now sat with his rifle across his knees.