Chapter Thirty-One
Clean and with a new uniform on, Danjou marched to where he’d last seen the Australian. After the gendarmes had excavated their way out of the collapsed dugout, they discovered not only that part of the trenches but the surrounding alleys and strongholds were completely abandoned. Even the phantom wounded soldier had disappeared.
Understanding that criminals often returned to the scene of a crime, Danjou headed to the collapsed dugout where he had escaped death. Passing through the extensive military works built behind the trenches to support the men on the frontlines, he noticed one of the other MP investigators—the British one if he remembered correctly—walking toward a different section of the front. Figuring the man was either on his way to rendezvous with the Aust
