 Mortar and rifle fire is audible in the distance, but Captain Mellor is more disturbed to hear the horrible sounds of a mass execution of twenty minors, who had been fighting as irregular guerilla warriors, in the town square.Twenty more youths remain locked in the local jail awaiting execution the next morning.Mellor, pretending to support the executions and displaying little sympathy for the youths, gets a tour from a Frenchman.