I wonder," exclaimed the officer suddenly, "if you are the three gentlemen who first gave the alarm to Colonel Raglan and then went on to warn the other coast towns.

Because, if you are, he wants your names." Ford considered rapidly.

If he gave false names and that fact were discovered, they would be suspected and investigated, and the worst might happen.

So he replied that his friends and himself probably were the men to whom the officer referred.

He explained they had been returning from Cromer, where they had gone to play golf, when they had been held up by the Germans.
"You were lucky to escape," said the officer "And in keeping on to give warning you were taking chances.