Chapter 8
THE SOUND
But no, there it is again. Sergeant Catroux hears it again quite clearly. A scraping and a thumping.
Couldn’t he just go wake Lieutenant Juin and tell him? But what if it’s nothing? The sergeant doesn’t know what to do. He listens again. Yes, it’s still there, these strange noises. He shifts his body to try and pinpoint exactly where it is. Yes, here it is now, somewhere under the ground here.
Suddenly Sergeant Catroux knows he must not wait any longer. He struggles upright, weak from hunger and thirst, and weaves through the men in the dark, stepping here on someone’s foot, bumping there against someone’s leg, and here and there he is cursed in rather colourful language. He moves slightly away from the wall, and then he stumbles and falls over someone. He wants to
