"Yes," assented Hal.
"Good luck to you! Well, follow the road and you can't have any trouble."
"Thank you, and good-night," came from both recruits. Then, each taking a new grip on his canvas case, which was fairly heavy, the recruits started down the road.
They came, finally, to the turn to the left.
"These equipment cases don't grow any lighter with distance, do they?" laughed Hal.
"Mine doesn't," grunted Noll.
When they had walked on a good deal farther Noll remarked:
"I wish we had that operator here!"
"What for?"
"He told us it was three miles. We could ask him what kind of miles."