"And how did you get here?" asked Alfred. "We thought they had captured you at Rouen."
"So they did, but we got away the same night. But where are you going?" returned Pierre.
"Trying to get to Holland," he was informed.
"I am afraid you will have to go south of the Scheldt to get there," Pierre then informed them.
"But I received a letter from father, and he wants us to meet him in Paris," said Alfred. "You know we don't want to be shut up in the city, if the Germans are going to surround it."
"Of course not," answered Pierre. "But in the meantime we must find some other way out. You know you are still in the army, in the messenger service, and come to think of it, you haven't received any pay so far, have you?"
The boys laughed, for that part of it had been entirely forgotten.
"Why, yes; the Germans paid us for work at the hospital," said Ralph.
"And you repaid them by skipping out the next day," said Pierre with a smile.
"How much do you think there is due us now?" asked Alfred.