"I don't know," replied Hal. "But I am sure they are Germans. Some way, I
can feel it."

"Well, what are we going to do?"

"We shall have to try and go round them without letting them hear us.
Otherwise we are likely to be killed or captured."

Making a wide detour, the little party continued on their way. For an
hour they walked along unmolested, and then, suddenly, from almost
directly before them, came a cry, in German:

"Halt!"




CHAPTER III.

WITH THE ARMY AGAIN.


In the dimness of the little woods in which they stood, the boys, at
first, could not see the man who had accosted them.

At a word from Hal the little party came to a halt.

"Who goes there?" came the question from the darkness.

"Friends!" replied Hal in German, which he spoke like a native.