The rustling broke out once more on the left, and gradually became lost in the distance.
Silence.
I felt a hot breath in my ear. Sapper Maggs stood by my side.
"There be a feller a-watching for us up there?" he whispered.
I nodded.
"If us could drar his 'tention away, yew could slip by, next time the patrols is past, couldn't 'ee?"
Again I nodded.
"It'd be worse for yew than for me, supposin' yew'd be ca-art, that's what t'other officer said, warn't it?"
And once more I nodded.
The hot whisper came again.