"From the enemy's outpost. And I located the camp, too. I could guide you right to either outpost or main camp. Will you take these guns, Corporal? My back feels broken."
"I should think it might," was Cotter's grinning response, as he reached out and took the lashed rifles. "Great Scott! What won't the lieutenant and Captain Cortland say!"
Just as they stepped softly back, Private Noll Terry challenged someone approaching softly from the rear.
"Halt! Who's there?"
"Officer of the day," returned Lieutenant Prescott's low voice.
"Advance, officer of the day, to be recognized."
Lieutenant Prescott advanced into the group.
"Do you see all this stuff, Lieutenant?" asked Corporal Cotter, calling attention to Hal's loot as it lay on the ground. "Overton went forward as a scout, and located one of the enemy's outposts, also the main camp. And he brought back these souvenirs of the outpost."
"To whom do the shoes belong?" questioned Lieutenant Prescott after looking at the stuff.
"To Corporal Raynes, sir, in command of the outpost," returned the soldier boy, with a grin.