In the bedroom Listing whispered to him that the "old gang" would beware of beginning it again. Wolf had told them that he should at once report them if they did, and he was known to keep his word in such matters.
When the two friends were in bed, the tall man came round to their corner.
"How are you?" he asked Vogt.
"All right, thanks," he answered.
"Glad to hear it."
He stretched out his hand to the recruit, and the two men exchanged a hearty grip.
CHAPTER V
"So pass the bottle about, hurrah!
Gaily sing and shout, hurrah!
Jolly artillerymen are we!"
(Artillery song.)
Sergeant Schumann looked once more round the two rooms and the kitchen; no, nothing had been left behind. Only his overcoat and hat hung on the window-bolt, and his stick stood in the corner.