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Show Thursday, ebuag THE LEW SUN, LEH1. UTAH PAGE TWO ..CHEV WNTC Srrc STORY FROM THE 8TART Sergeant Eadls and Private Darcy, lately discharged from a hospital, behind the front, In France, become bored and die gusted with life In replacement camp. Thejr elude the guard and go over the bill to And and rejoin their old outfit, the Seventy-ninth field artillery. At Vaucouleure they are told their outfit haa moved up beyond TouL Weak, tired and hungry, the two men seek food. Upon the promlae of a "real" feed, they split pile of wood for an officer's cook. When the latter offers them bread and salmon, they thrash blm. CHAPTER I Continued -2- ' In the street oo the other side of the wall, Eadle and Darcy ran heavily long. Tbey turned down a street that led between garden walls, a back alley, nnpaved. The" stopped and listened, holding their gasping breaths. There was a distant clamor, a far-off howling. In the Intervals of which the two could distinguish the words. "Thieves! Hey, crooks l M. P.'s op!" "Let's get outta town," said Darcy. "1 feel nervous here. We want to go to Toul, don't we? Well, let's find the road. Man, I fee! better after passln' that bird a beatln. The tdea i him puttln out goldfish to i coupla wounded wound-ed guys back from hospital! 1 enn do a beap o' walkln' to save myself month or so on the rockplle," They continued down the street to Its end, and Into the highroad that crossed there. There were some soldiers sol-diers Idling st the far end of the ' road, there was a restaurant with more soldiers sitting before It, hui none of them showed any Interest In the two strangers. Eadle went boldly op to one of the tables. "Which Is the rond to Toul. fellnrsr he asked. "Huh?" snld the men, "the road to Toul? Down the other side o' the town. If goes out by the M. P. barracks." bar-racks." "How far Is Itr asked Kadle. J "Twenty-live kilometers." Eadie's heart sank, .They could never make It before night. Twenty- five kilometers meant about fifteen miles, more than a day's march for him and his J red companion. He and Darcy weut slowly away. They walked do,.'n r seemingly endless paved tercet, and came out on the edge of a meadow, on the far side of which was a long row of trees, si retching retch-ing away out of sight to the northeast. "I'll bet that's the road," said Eadie. "It looks like a main road and it goes In the right direction They crossed the hot field, mopping their brows, and at last arrived at the edge of the road, sut and looked and ly at their new shoes. These shoes were not yet broken In and hence made their feet sore. "We're getting closer all the time." said Eadle. "We're bound to find the outfit some day." "Yeh, some duy." agreed Darcy "When we were three or four hun dred miles from the outfit it didn't seem half as far off as It does now when we ain't but ten or twelve. Here comes a motorcycle guy." He pointed to a cloud of dust approach-'Ing approach-'Ing from the direction of the town. In front of which could bs seen the thin shape of a motorcycle with Its rider. The motorcycle approached, slowed down, and as Darcy stood up to hall Its rider, the machine stopped. The rider was a large, husky soldier, a very capable looking gun swunR from his hip. and his arm bore the blue brassard with two white letters, large and glaring M. P. "Oh, misery !" muttered Eadle. The halting of this policeman boded the wanderers no good. It would mean a request to be shown the authority for their wandering st large, and like Simple Simon. Indeed they had not any. The military policeman up proached. "Are yon the two guys that beat up the cook T asked he. "What cook?" countered Eadle. The M. P. grinned. "I ain't uskln officially." said he. "hut Just as one guy to another. That bird has been sufferln for rubhln' duw i for some time. Come clean, now, ain't you two the ones that slipped It to him? You answer the description, two tough guys, snlvage uniforms phony wounl tripe, toughest one a sergeant." "Well," mid Eadie, "we had a few ords with a guy back there I don't know about bis being a cook." ."lie's a cook, all right." suld the M P. "He cooks for the big twostat boys that hang around corps head quarters. Tell me. Is It true run knocked him down and kicked the liver out o htm?" "Somethin like that." said Darcy. "He got us to chop up a cord o' wood an' tuld he'd give us a feed for It an then he Issued out a con o' goldfish." "That s bim," said the M P. "He used to cook for our detail. Weil, n got promoted to he cook for the corps mess an' we go all set to live off the fat o' the land. Why. we give hlra a blowout the tilfelit he left that set o iiii a nmotbi pay apiece So then By LEONARD NASON Illustration by IRWIN MYERS, D.S.C about a week later, when he'd never come near us, a couple of us went up to pay blm a call. He waa slttin' In the shed plckln' away at what was left of roast suckln' pig. Well, In two "vords, be didn't offer us none an we asked for It, an' maybe said iome bard words. What does he do bu' turn us In for botherln' blm an' hanit In, round his kitchen! An' on the charge sheet Is Indorsed by old Tur-keyface Tur-keyface himself, 'Severe sentence. We're still payln' the blind. By O d !' cried the M. P, "lemme ihake hands with yon guys! He said yon broke every bone In his body almost." He shook hands violently with Darcy and Eadie. "Now then,".snld be. "you wanta get away from here. Listen now, there's a ration truck goin' up to Toul In about ten minutes. I saw It loadln' when I come out. I'll curve back to town an' tell 'em to be on the lookout for yuh. Jump In an' stoy outta tight. No one'll look for yuh In Toul." He mounted i.ls motorcycle, swung It about, and was gone. A few minutes min-utes later a truck came to a groaning halt as the two wanderers waved their arms at It. "You two the guys that beat op the cook?" called the driver. "That's ns," answered Eadle. "Weil, get In the bock," directed the driver, "an holler when you're In." The two boosted each other In over the tailgate, yelled to the driver, and away they went. "Well, can you tie that?" asked Darcy. "Everyone In this county Is our friend because we beat up the cook. He must hove been mean as dogwood and twice as nasty." "Roy," said Endle, "when that M. I, shook hands with me I was more surprised sur-prised than If Kaiser Hill himself had done It Why, think of the drag he would hove hod with the general If he'd arrested the men that had banged the general's cook I I know one mess that will eat poor for a few weeks." "Hey I" bellowed a voice from the front of the truck, "you birds hungry?" "That's our middle name." answered Eadle. "We're aiwoys hungry." "There's a case o' Jam open and some bread In a bug there," yelled back the man. "Dig In." The two opened the Jam, helped ihemMves" to a loaf of bread and ate heartily. The truck rattled on, the ruin drove against the cover, they halted while the driver held conversation with unseen un-seen men, and they proceeded again Tratllc became thicker and Eadie could tell when they were nt a crossroads by the free comment of the driver and his assistant and the fulnt, yet bitter replies of unseen soldiers. "We're gettln' near the front," said Darcy, peering out the back. "These trucks are all runnln' without lights." Hardly bad he said this when the truck lurched violently several times and then came to a halt "Ditched!" - decided Eudle. He waited for the driver to burst Into profanity, pro-fanity, but he heard them climbing down from their perch In -silence, "What's the matter?" he asked, as two dripping figures appeared at the tailgate. "Nothln, said one of them. "This Is as far as we go. This Is Toul." "Do you suppose we could sleep In the truck tonight?" asked Eadie. "Sure," said the driver, "there's room In here for a million." He and his companion bad bedding rolls like oltlcers, which they unrolled on top of the load. Eudie and Darcy. however, had nothing but their blnn kets and overcoats. They put these down and, using their gas musks for pillows, wiggled around like snakes to find a place where tbey could lie and escape the shurp corners of the ration cases. CHAPTER II Field Orders 36. Very ,..:t In the morning rain still Mi, bucketing bucket-ing down slantwise before a cold wind The two wanderers looked audly out of the truck. Tbey were In the yard of a great caserne, a barrack square surrounded by high buildings, empij now and cheerless.. A long l!ne of trucks like their own was waiting to unload. "Where do you go from here? Eadie asked the driver. "We unload an' go back to Vaucou leurs. What place do you want?" "! don t know." suld Eadie. "but I thought I'd go in and ask the billeting ollicer wher the Seventy-niutli Field Artillery Is. Ever hear of ciu?" "Xo," said the driver, "I ucver did But there's ten million outfits around here. Black Jack himself never heard of half of era." "Come on," called Eadie. "Let's dust out of here," They weU across the yard ant' out the main gate of the caserne. Their hair was long, their hands and faces begrlmrued with coal dust from riding In trains, and road dust from pound Ing the highways. Their uniforms, happily, were covered by their slick erg, which, put on over their pucks, gave them a decidedly bump-backed appearance Tbe two went down the hill, know Ing that this must lead to the ceniei of the town. They crossed bridge above the railroad and so came to the old-fashioned city gate. "Look at the M. IV said Darcy In n whisper, Indicating a man In a Hiker who twirled a club under the -orch of a sort of guardhouse. "Never mind blm," replied Eudie under his breath. "Keep right on g Ing, Just as though he didn t mean anything to you." ..: "Hey?" yelled the M. P. The tw stopped, "Hey, where you guys go In?" "Down town." said Eadie. "We want to find the billeting ofttcet." "Got a pass?" "No," answered Eadie. The M. P. waved his club In a gesture ges-ture that said, "Outside, bum!" as plainly as If he had Mken It The two turned without comment and re traced their steps. On the railroad bridge they halted by common consent and leaned against the railing. "Don't It beat all!" said Darcy "You an' me a coupla wounded guys tryln" to get back to the front You'd think every one would give i a hand On the Wood, In Straggling Black Letters, Were the Words, "79th F. A. Post of Command." But us I 'How's chances on a flop for the night?' 'Git t'h I outta here!" Hey, guy, Where's the Thlr-" Division hand out?' 'Show me your pass an I'll tell yuh.' 'Ain't got no pass. 'Git t'h I outta here!'" "How's your courage?" asked Eudie. "Game for a bike In the ruln?1 "Sure, It's better than slttin' here bltln' our thumbs an' wonderiu' when we eat" "Well, let's go again. Somewhere between here and Germany we ought to find an outfit that'll give two good soldiers , a Job until 'they find their own." At sunset of the same day the rain bad ceased, but the sky was still low eriug. the wind rustled the wet leaves, and a chill cold dump was on all the countryside. Darcy and Eadie tramped through the mud. They bad that day progressed twenty-two kilometers, rid Ing In trucks, on empty caissons, bare-buck bare-buck on horses that nearly clove them In two. In French country carts, and lastly on a tank. They had come to a thiekly wooded section. Into the depths of whose forests went narrow roads, new. and bearing the marks of much traffic. "We're gettln closer to the front all the time," said Darcy. "Kitchens an' everything will be hid in the wooda I think we ought to duck "town one o' these mads what the h I Is bltln you now?" The sergeant had darted to one side ot the road and was looking Into tbf air with Intense earnestness. "What's the matter?" asked Da.-cj again. - ome nere, siua Kadle. "and If you see what I do." see Darcy complied and found the ser gennt looking at a piece of new wink! half the fop of a box In which runner goods had been packed On the wood in straggling black letters were the words. "Seventy ninth F. a vsi t 'omnia ml." Underneath, an arrow oointed down one of the narrow rnd. "It ain't real." said Darcy. "Sure. Its real." said the sergeant -We havnt had a drink for week,. Our out tit's down this mad Dar.-j what d'you think of that for lurk?" "1 don't believe It." sold , rHr,-j firmly. "Well, we ll go see," The two ..i them splashed their way down td. road. IVyond the first turn a con fused murmur became audible nn-i after another minute's walking. the could see a sort of park under the trees, wagons half covered with t-,r paulins, a picket line, the horses tethered thereon kicking and siueni Ing. Eadie and Darcy turned in th direction of the picket line and discovered dis-covered f'lat the underbrush ... J thick with shelter tents. 8 CopyrUM H 0o.f. H. Pr. Comp.W. Well. If it ain't Sployd!" cried Dar cy suddenly. "Well. If It ain't Darcy an Sergeant Eudle!" cried the man addressed as Splovd. "When did yuh get back? By G d. If you ain't more welcome than a month's pay I" "Had supper yet?" asked the ser gennt. wringing the other's hand. "Sure, long ago," said Sployd. "I'm a busy man. I'll see you fellars In r second. There's the old gun crew. Purcy, wheel In that gun outta lino there. Most of the old gang Is left I II see yul. In a minute." "Where's the Old Man?" asked the sergeant "We've got to report to film an.l then we'll Re about (how." "Ills tent's over tbere under that Dig tree," said Sployd. pointing. "Well. I gotta iiurry away." He shook hand again and hastily took his departure "Every one's In a rush." said Eadie "They m-ist be going to have an In spection. You go over and parley with the gun crew. Parey. and I'll go tell the Old Mao his two prodigals have come home. It's not much later than five o'clock. They're rather early with chow." "Tell the Old Man we haven't had anythir,; since breakfast," said Darcy "I'll see If 1 can't hit these hombres up for some chow." "Good, I'll be back In a minute." The sergeant gave a feeble brush or tt at the mud on his alicker. hooked It together a little more neatly, neat-ly, and started In the direction of the big tree. He paused at a shelter tent from which protruded u p-lr of feet In officer's boots. The sergeant coughed slightly and a fao p"red out "Dy G d ! cried the owner of the face, "it's Sergeant Eadie back again. Well, well. You always come back at the opportune moment I'll bet the police are at your heels this time, too." The boots scraped on the ground and their owner emerged, a tall man wear ing the insignia of a captain of field artillery. He shook hands violentlj with Sergeant Eadie. "Speak of the devil." continued the captain, "and he always appears. Yessir and he d a'. I'm glad to see yon. Have yon got a gun?" "Yes, sir." said Eadie. a little mys titled. -"Got any bullets for it?" "No, sir." "Well, get some pronto. Hang a first -aid packet on yourself, get a can of bully beef to put in your pocket, and drag yourself over to Lieutenant Sawyer. He's got the only other map of the sector. Commit it to memory, sergeant I Ah. hoy! fro glad you're back. I see my way clear now. Young Mack will figure tire dupe and Finn can be liaison sergeant. Well, on your way now. snap! One hour Is all you've got I" "Sir." said Eudie. "I haven't had anything to eat all day. Could I woh on the map until after I've eaten?" The capta.n's lips shut firmly and he turned a cold gaze upon the ser geant The captain had blue eyes. Hs expressionless as the muzzle of a pis tol and fully as alarm! ig. were starting a drive sergeant," said he. "The moves at six p. m." tonight battery "Ah." said the sergeant. CltmA I'll ... . . "I see in Si-i nsiii nt file liiiip ' "Deport to n.e when the l,.lMen moves out. 111 reeled ike K..ll ..I... ... . 'iit!iln ..nnr ciiiuiru hiiii Weill nV:U ' . An hour! So iiuny tldiigM t( All of the weiirinei-s Hun tie fought against throughout Ho . hud muddy march sin.-e they Imri i,.rt r,.,,, descended on him at on.e His K mask was new mid would taste o si phur. The eyepieces must he urens. wet Apologetic Man Gets Little Out of Life A really gift,.,! financier cen col., the golden sunshine and the vtiverv laughter and make two ha,,k row where hut one grew hetore ali n a capital as ethereal as the hlue dome overhead, comments the M uncle Evening Press. But the nimlojietle man cant ex chance a $10 Knl. piece for $5 Ani dominant personality with hlne-sh-iv en square Jaws can look the little fellow over and after piercing with h dance the tatter's sPirtm- ele ,e .on i ue nonesi hut bashful ,nan , rnwife Tin, . . a - "ti iooks ver the -M-n,H.ioC,S, ., snd h,tM mln that U handed over the conti.r, "efore condescendii.s to accept it. And. somehow, the apologist alwavs nS a way of wearing his clothes FlfM Many Eyes The greater part of ti,. (J ily Is occupied by tl,e eye. .Ille erul thousand In numlK-r. desi-riij as compound. Between the coilM,aud eyes and near the top t the head is a triangutui arrangement of tlree pie eyes. Tbe upper two are mU(i farther apart in the female than in the male. In spite of the arrai.tM1,tI of the ejes and the great mohii,, . the head. It Is not believed that thi vision of flies is especially acute, at tiouh the range of vision U wide. A drivel ' Eadie knew what drive meant He bad Deen n ou u Marue. It meunt no food, no sleep for days on end. and fighting fighting, all the time. It meant seeing men killed and lying down beside their un-burled un-burled bodies to wait for tbe bocbe to tire of shooting machine guns and Hares; It meant buntlug Infantry at night In black woods, alone, Ue must draw ammunition, lota of It I And be did not know a foot of the sector I Five minutes of the hour bad already gone. "111. Eadie, home again?" cried a voice. A man called Ham, who was a machine gunner, extended bis band to Eadie. "Glad you come back all right even If It does screw me outta o.y new stripes." "How come?" ' "1 Just got made," said Ham sadly, displaying a sleeve with a brand oew set of sergeant's chevronsr"bct now you come back we'll have more sergeants ser-geants than we're alhiwed an' me liein' dub. I'll probably get ! broke again. Well, I got -o rustle along. I'm drawing pistol ammunition for the gunners." "Good," said Eadie, "I'll go with you. I've got to get some pistol bullets, too." In the center of a pile ol freshly opened boxes sut a distracted looking man. About him were clustered several sev-eral others protesting. The distracted man's fact was wrinkled, his curly hair was fueling away from the top of his head, and he was older by ten years than the oldest soldier about him. his name was Cokey Muliins and he fulfilled the duties of tupply sergeant ser-geant to the battery, though he had been reduced to the grade of private several months ago. Tbe other men greeted Eadie and Cokey gave vent to a hoarse laugh. "Here's Eadie back again. How's Eadie? Did they kick you out of that hospital?" "Sure." said Eadie, "you don't think I'd come back otherwise, do you? Give us about a hundred rounds of pistol ammunition." "Whoa, boy!" cried Cokey. "K'ar back there 1 Hundred rounds 1 Man. who are you? Listen to him, boys!" Cokey thrust his hand Into a burlap bag and began counting. Eadle did not pay a great deal of attention. He was thinking what next had to he done. His gun must be cleaned, gas mask prepared, some food put In his stomach and some In his pack, and the map! The sector, bad to be learned by heart the . roads, where they came from and whither they went, the names and heights of all hills, the names of all woods and farmhouses, the location of the enemy lines, and the approximate ranges of any good aiming points behind them. Eadie's job with the battery had been a cornbinition of observer and liaison sergeant. The guns, firing on the enemy ene-my from some concealed point, could not see the target. Some one, therefore, there-fore, must he where he could see the falling shells and correct the aim of the guns if necessary. . This Job had been and was again to be Eadie's1. In addition, when any lnfan'ry sent hack a request for fire, hut neglected to send their location. It wr.s Eadie's tas k to go out and find said Infantry mid then locate them -accurately on the map, so that the battery, in giving the requested tire, would not shoot un i lie infantry It Intended to aid. And to locate units quickly and accurately, a man must have a very good Idea of the country In which he Is operating The mistaking of one farmhouse for another, of a road running east and west for a parallel road a half mile further on, is a slight thing Indeed and on a dark night in blinding rain might be made by anyone, but such a mistake In time of war means a lot of unnecessary deaths, possible loss of a position, and even the failure of a ueneral attack "And. me." said Eadie aloud. "I've got nan an hour to memorize map in." the "What you want. Sergeant Eadie?" asked Cokey. "Some bullets, and make It snappy -Cokey Muliins reached into a burlap bur-lap bag and tirought out a handful of piMol ammunition. from wh,,.u , cnuiiieu ten cartridges, landed to Eudie. These TO HE CONTINUED.t "e had stolen them off a somewhere pnt i, clothesline .. .. u " -an i put nn a front" wfcow ne has P P han he can afford. The humble man never gets credit or anything until he dies and then preacher, casting around fnr ie LI"5. T 1 y ' h, Pts tn the put "7. u" OI a hv saying: hadnt an enemy n the world." He She Should Know Responding to an lnvitrtt.. . i he soInKtl ririnnir.nl ... , ere uuq iaiK over h question of her boy8 transfer o a m.Ii.m.1 better suited tn hi. ? mentality an Indignant ij, " 'uggisn 1-earetj with her spring. ooiiier an- onpromlstng 0ff- minded?" 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