"I'm sorry, sir," he said.

"It's all right," said the officer. "If I was in your place, I might have said worse things."

Bill recounted the incident afterwards and concluded by saying, "'E's a fine bloke, 'e is, our C.O. I'd do anythink for him now."


CHAPTER XIII
A Prisoner of War

A star-shell holds the sky beyond

Shell-shivered Loos, and drops

In million sparkles on a pond

That lies by Hulluch copse.