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We soon learned that the latter was a term of contempt applied by the former to the Germans. I asked him for some tobacco, which he readily gave to us from a capacious pouch. He waved his pipe at us in friendly fashion and said something which we took to be a question as to our identity. "English," we said, and in desperation turned to our scanty stock of French: "Soldats; prisoniers."
Surplice was, as usual, very interested, enormously interested. So were we: for the names respectively belonged to Monsieur Auguste, Monsieur Pet-airs, The Wanderer, Surplice and The Spoonman. These men had been judged. These men were going to Precigne. These men would be prisoniers pour la duree de la guerre.
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