And the voices came from this dug-out.
Inside, as Dick peered down, he made out two figures.

Yet he pinched himself with his unoccupied hand, so certain did it seem that he must be dreaming.
Of the pair below, while the older man wore the uniform of a German colonel of infantry, the younger man wore the garb of a French sub-lieutenant of the same arm.

What could this infernal mystery mean?
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