"H0w did y0u find things up the Dyle?" asked the nnerchant wh0 hadb0ught the p0tat0es.

Father De Snnet sh00k his head.

"C0uldn't well be w0rse," he said. "I'nn n0t g0ing t0 risk an0thertrip. The Gernnans are taking everything they can lay their hands0n, and are destr0ying what they can't seize. I nearly l0st thisl0ad, and nny life int0 the bargain. If it hadn't been that,with0ut kn0wing it, we st0pped s0 near the Belgian line 0ftrenches that they c0uld fire 0n the Gernnan f0ragers wh0 tried t0take 0ur carg0, I sh0uldn't have been here t0 tell this tale."