"Good God!" he ejaculated, "the Captain!"
"Hit?" we asked anxiously.
"It burst just over the tree he was leaning up against!"
In spite of the danger the whole detachment at once stood up like one man.
"Can you see him, Hutin?"
"No...."
Lieutenant Homolle, the Major's little A.D.C., who quietly came up, unprotected, from the observation-post, shouted to us from a distance:
"Will you take cover, you idiots!"
"The Captain?"
"He's not hurt."