"The Germans drove us in with their counter-attack, didn't they?" asked Fortescue.
"Aye, but we ousted them next morning," replied Travers, "and out of Flers as well. That's when Pat O'Connor copped it; but he swears that none of our fellows were left alive during the retirement in the woods."
"Then you think that Peter was killed?" asked Malcolm.
Travers squared his shoulders.
"Speaking as man to man," he replied, "I don't think there can be the faintest doubt about it. And Peter Carr was a downright good sort. . . . How about it, you fellows? Good for a game of a 'hundred up'?"
CHAPTER XIV
The Anzacs' Hoax
For the next few weeks events moved rapidly. With the belated arrival of the Thirty-somethingth reinforcement, Malcolm Carr and d**k Selwyn found themselves reverted to the rank
