It is your Maurie who is in distress." They laughed a little at first and then began to realize that the loss of their chauffeur would prove a hardship when fighting was resumed.
Maurie might not be a good husband, and he might be afraid of a woman, but was valuable when bullets were flying.

Patsy asked the boy: "Can you lead us to the man who gave you this paper ?" "Oui, mamselle." "Then hurry, and you shall have five centimes more." The injunction was unnecessary, for the urchin made them hasten to keep up with him.

He made many turns and twists through narrow alleys and back streets until finally he brought them to a row of cheap, plastered huts built against the old city wall.

There was no mistaking the place, for in the doorway of one of the poorest dwellings stood Clarette, her ample figure fairly filling the opening, her hands planted firmly on her broad hips.
"Good evening," said Patsy pleasantly.

"Is Maurie within ?" "Henri is within," answered Clarette with a fierce scowl, "and he is going to stay within." "But we have need of his services," said Ajo sternly, "and the man is in our employ and under contract to obey us." "I also need his services," retorted Clarette, "and I made a contract with him before you did, as my marriage papers will prove." The little boy and girl had now crowded into the doorway on either side of their mother, clinging to her skirts while they "made faces" at the Americans.