"Sorry I didn't place you at once," he exclaimed. "Then I guess we would
be going the other way."
"I wouldn't be so sure about that," Hal broke in. "We usually go the way
we want to."
Half a block farther on Hal perceived a body of German troops moving
toward them.
"Step in between us," he commanded the prisoner.
The latter obeyed without remonstrance.
"One false move and you are a dead man, no matter what happens to us,"
said Chester quietly.
The prisoner recognized by the lad's tone that he was in earnest, and he
would have passed right on, but an officer with the approaching troop
walked directly up to him and saluted.
At the same moment he felt the pressure of Chester's automatic, which the
lad gripped inside his pocket, against his back.
CHAPTER X.
ON THE AISNE.
The prisoner was in a quandary. To raise a cry of warning, he felt
sure, would mean his instant death; and yet, should he remain silent if
he was asked any questions concerning his companions he might also get
into trouble.
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