“I tell you it pays to keep your weather-eye open, sir,” said Parker, as he came up and saluted.
“Have you got it?” demanded the captain, who seemed as delighted as the lieutenant himself.
“I don’t know, sir, but I have orders to come around in half an hour and bring Carl, the Trailer, with me.”
“Then you are going—you can bet on that. Did you hear who else he is going to send with you? I wonder if he will select me?”
“That is all I want, sir.”
“All! Carl, the Trailer!”
“Yes, sir.”
“Good heavens, young man, you’re crazy! You will never get through their lines in the world.”
“Don’t you think it would be easier for two men to hide than it would be for fifty, sir?”
“Are you going to hide from them? Did you tell that to the colonel?”