I'll call Simpson." Another figure at that moment loomed in the gloom.

They could see that it was the corporal.

"Who yeh talkin' to, Wilson ?" he demanded.

His voice was anger-toned.

"Who yeh talkin' to?
Yeh th' derndest sentinel--why--hello, Henry, you here?
Why, I thought you was dead four hours ago! Great Jerusalem, they keep turnin' up every ten minutes or so! We thought we'd lost forty-two men by straight count, but if they keep on a-comin' this way, we'll git th' comp'ny all back by mornin' yit.