"No, I wouldn't. It's too early to tell anything about it yet,
really. But if the Germans fight the way they always have before,
it's going to be a long war."

They talked as they went, and, though Harry's ankle was still
painful, the increased speed the bandaging made possible more than
made up for the time it had required. Harry was anxious about
Dick, he wanted to rejoin him as soon as possible. And so it was
not long before they came near to the place where the cycles had
been cached.

"We'd better go slow. In case anyone else watched us this
afternoon, we don't want to walk into a trap," said Harry. He was
more upset than he had cared to admit by the discovery that he and
Dick had been spied upon by Jack, excellent though it had been
that it was so. For what Jack had done it was conceivable that
someone else, too, might have accomplished.

"All right. You go ahead," said Jack. "I'll form a rear guard --
d'ye see? Then you can't be surprised."

"That's a good idea," said Harry. "There, see that big tree, that
blasted one over there? I marked that. The cache is in a
straight line, almost, from that, where the ground dips a little.
There's a clump of bushes."

"There's someone there, too," said Jack. "He's tugging at a
cycle, as if he were trying to get ready to start it."