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He dropped into one of the few chairs unstacked with books. "Mr. Smith," he said, with emotion, "what does this mean? Tell me quickly." In brief terms Smith detailed the happenings of the night or so much as he knew of them. Sir Lionel Barton listened, sitting quite still the while an unusual repose in a man of such evidently tremendous nervous activity.
There was a rattle of arms as the men unstacked their guns and fell into line, then hundreds of hobnailed boots marked time on the hard road, and the 65th swung along to the waiting camions, over the same route I had seen Captain Simpson and the Yorkshire boys take, just before sundown, on that hot September day in 1914.
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