There was a halt at last. I took a turn. A shadow was silhouetted in front of me:
"Sergeant!"
"Who goes there?"
Oh, I recognised him....
"That you, Donnadieu?"
It was my corporal, the voluntary casualty of Mangiennes!
"I've come back, Sergeant," he said. "Sergeant...."
He stopped, choking....
"Did you tell the others?"