"Face west! March!" Though both prisoners obeyed promptly Captain Prescott was not simple enough to imagine that they had no plan or hope of rescue or escape.

In making this double arrest Dick had realized fully that he was probably throwing his life away, yet he had deemed possible success worth all the risk.
After going thirty or forty yards the older prisoner halted squarely.
"Proceed!" Dick ordered in a stern whisper, aiming one of the pistols at the defiant one's breast.
"I do not care about being killed needlessly; neither do you," said the colonel.

"I can save my life, and give you some chance for yours by informing you that, at the moment you appeared in the dug-out, I pressed one foot against a signal apparatus that calls our men back to these trenches.

Just now I heard them entering a trench section ahead.

Others have entered behind us.