“General, the whole box of tricks has gone. We’ve been left behind. Forgotten!”

“The dirty dogs!” said General Macready.

There was not much time for packing up, and only one motorcar, and only one rifle. The general said he would look after the rifle, but Colonel Childs said if that were so he would rather stay behind and take his chance of being captured. It would be safer for him. So the adjutant-general, the judge advocate, the deputy assistant judge advocate (Colonel Childs), and an orderly or two packed into the car and set out to find G.H.Q. Before they found it they had to run the gauntlet of Germans, and were sniped all the way through a wood, and took flying shots at moving figures. Then, miles away, they found G.H.Q.

“And weren’t they sorry to see me again!” said General Macready, who told me the tale. “They thought they had lost me forever.”