I felt Billie's grasp tighten, and her hair brush my cheek.
"Well, I thought I did, sir," he admitted at last, but as though not wholly convinced, "only I don't like to say till you have a look at the lad.

He was dead game anyhow, I'll say that for him, an' I don't feel just sure.

I never got eyes on him in daylight, an' when I yanked him out o' the coal hole he was mostly black.

Maybe that's him over there, sir." The hospital squad had cleared out much of the front hall, but had not reached the plaster pile where we had made our last stand.

Those that were left were mostly clad in gray, but over against the stairs, one leg and arm showing, was a blue uniform.