"Do you want me to tell you where the guards were?"

"Why, yes, if you know."

"Well, I know all right. They were chasing me around the highways and
byways, if you want to know," Stubbs exploded. "They discovered me
trying to get into the house and I ran for my life. Well, this beats
the Dutch! I cleared the road for you and you grabbed the list!"

Stubbs became silent.

"At all events," said Hal, "we got the list -- and that is what counts,
after all."

"True," said Stubbs, and extended a hand in the darkness, which Hal
grasped warmly. "Well," he said, "we're all tarred with the same
brush, and it will give these Huns great delight to stand us all up
before a wall or with ropes around our necks in a bunch. The sooner we
get back to our lines the better for all our families."

"But the question is, how?" said Hal quietly.

"I've got a big automobile waiting for me about a mile from here," said
Stubbs. "If we can get into it we can go a long ways without
interruption."

"They'll wire ahead," said Hal

"So they will," Stubbs agreed, but I've also got a pocket full of the
prettiest passports and other credentials you ever saw. I didn't chop