"We didn't think of it at the time," smiled Hal. "It seemed all in the way of business."
"You ought to have seen the folks you left behind here," put in another man.
"Oh, shut up," called others.
"No, I won't," retorted the last speaker. "What do you suppose we folks that you left behind in this car were doing?"
"Nothing very noisy, was it?" queried Hal.
"Not particularly," admitted the man, with a laugh. "We were lying along the aisle, or else we crawled under seats. At one time there were altogether too many bullets hitting the side of the car, or coming through the windows. None of us in here got hit, but that was because of the good care we took of ourselves."
"Oh, we might have done something," protested another man, "only we didn't have anything to shoot with."
"These two young soldiers didn't have anything to shoot with, either, at the outset of the trouble. They hustled outside and got their guns from the enemy."
"Got any of those guns now?" asked another passenger, crowding forward. "Want to sell any of 'em?"
"We haven't even a cartridge," Hal replied.