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"What are you going to do now?" Bentley asked.
"Oh, the rest is easy," Venables said. "Now that I know exactly where we stand, I am going to take the place of the man who is working the telephone, and send information that I want to convey to the battery. I'm not quite sure, but I think this battery is hidden in an old sandpit and our game of course is to get them out. If they believe that we are abandoning those front trenches, it will be useless for them to stay where they are, and once they begin to move we can smash them all up."