"Hand 'em over. I've got piles more already. I hope to have the luck to come across a post-office. They keep me on the run all right. I've just come from Censenvoye. It's a business getting along the road with all these troops, too!"
I asked him if he knew anything about the battle. How were things going?
He exclaimed:
"We've just given them a fine doing!"
"Seriously?"
A thrill ran through me. But I mistrusted these tales.
"We saw some wounded belonging to the 130th yesterday.... They didn't think it much fun!" I objected.
"I can understand that! Their regiment was wiped out!"
"Well, then?"