I thought I heard the sound of guns this morning, and it could have been from nowhere else." Late that afternoon they came suddenly upon a great war camp and, at once, sat down in the bushes.
"What is to be done now ?" Hallett said.

"We cannot go back again.
We are neither of us fit to walk a couple of miles." Lisle sat for some minutes without answering him, and then said suddenly: "I have an idea.

I will cut down a sapling, seven or eight feet long; and fasten the sheet to it, so as to make a flag of truce.
Then we will walk boldly into the village, and summon it to surrender.

It is a bold stroke, but it may succeed.

We know that most of them are getting tired of the war.