Most of these men were serving merely sentences of a day to a week for minor infractions of discipline.
The next morning Private Riley managed to get word to Greg that Private Brown, of the guard, had been talking with Mock at the barbed wire of the pen enclosure.
"Private Brown is supposed to be an all right soldier, but he'll bear watching," was Dick's comment when he heard the report.
That afternoon it was reported that both Mock and Wilhelm had been talking with Private Brown at the barbed wire fence.

Dick smiled grimly when he heard it.
The next morning orders were read releasing Mock, Wilhelm, Riley and some of the other soldier prisoners ahead of time that they might not be deprived of too much instruction.

The released ones were cautioned to be extremely careful, in the future, not to fall under the disciplinary ban.
"Sure, I can understand some of us getting out, but not Mock," declared Riley to a bunkie (chum).

"Him an' his talk about deserting to the enemy!" In the meantime Dick had given an accurate description of the carpenter who had tried to enlist Mock in some dangerous scheme of revenge.

The fellow had disappeared from among the gang of carpenters, and that was all that was known.