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Darkness was falling so swiftly that they were still merely specks of light as they swept up to and seemed to melt into the swirling, swooping mass of fliers about the dome.... Cold sweat was standing out on Thorn's face, despite the violence of his exertions. He was even praying a little.... And suddenly the searchlight beam flickered a welcome answer: "W-e u-n-d-e-r-s-t-a-n-d. R-e-p-o-r-t."
A Yankee seems to be lying on the other side of the breastworks sunning himself, and raising himself on his elbow, says, "Fool who with your fatty bread? W-e are too o-l-d a-birds to be caught with that kind of chaff. We don't want any of that kind of pie. What you got there wouldn't make a mouthful. Bring on your pudding and pound-cake, and then we will talk to ye."
The Sister took paper and pencil and wrote the letters one by one as the code ticked them off and the reader called them to her. "Ready. Begins!" Go on, Miss, write it down," as she hesitated. "Don-I-Don Did; W-E we; Toc-ac-K-E take; Toc-H-E the; Toc-R-E-N-C-H trench; ac-ac-ac. Did we take the trench?"