"A shell burst over there and it got both of us. Are you much hurt?"
"I have no pain," replied Ralph.
"Only stunned, perhaps," he replied in a mere matter of fact way. "Was that your machine?" he inquired.
"Yes; I was carrying orders from headquarters," answered Ralph.
"Rather risky business, I should say," he answered.
"Are you hurt much?" asked Ralph.
"Well, not much compared with some about here. Say, could you help me over to the hedge?" he asked.
Ralph was up in an instant. He looked over himself, just as a person would make an examination of an object to see if it had been injured.
When the young man was safely landed at the thick hedge, Ralph thought of his duty. "I must be going," he said.
"Where are you bound?" asked the wounded man.