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Show REAVER CITY pRESS OEVR llla-stralion- by s IRWIN MYERS, D. S. C. Copyright by George H. Doran Company. WND 8erv!c Feel Tired By LEONARD NASON Achy? Too Often Continued mans are going up that gulch to pull down by Eadle. Tbe sergeant took off a flank attack on our lines farther lng at him, recognized him as one ot 13 We mustn't let them know those who had been with the general back. "So yon came In across the field.' "Haven't seen any," said Eadle as They outnumber muttered the' ragged officer. "We've we're here. -five to one more about or We're holdln' 'em!" anyway to runners but tried get through there, "Have they begun to fall back?" the; haven't seemed to be able to Sergeant Fletcher, run back In to the large make it Well, what's the answer? blinker and send, 'Enemy "No, not yet They aren't doing any Watch more rushing, though." Xou men want to commit suicide or numbers moving southwest left I Go on. you others, get all those did you come op here for some def"J si" Tbe other man spat In the riflemen back here. You there, you road. "Ain't this a inite purpose?" picnic for a man "We've brought up a wire from the man with the mustache, do you know above grade seventeen to get Into! I where the machine gun Is up there? was detailed to Information center," replied Lieutengo wltb that blgh ant Connor coldly, tie had been Jump up and tell 'em not to fire on flyin' staff bird an' carry his camp thinking more and more that this their lives!" chairs an' stuff. I'm sergeant major The men turned to go, but there was with Brigade H. Q. Figure me doln ragsed officer was probably a tempoNo one a sudden crackle of rifle fire and a It! Boy, there's a Jinx on this outrary second lieutenant 'of yelling fim fit! Where the h I did that shell btfuj;ht expensive uniforms like that straggling burst except newly commissioned officers of down the road. The Germans below shocked lieutenant come from?" the general staff. Hence he, Connor, haired Instantly and stood listening. "The one wltb me?" asked Eadie Two patrols detached themselves from was preparing to do some heavy rank bawled you out "What's the mob and began to cllmh the hill for not he done now, infl. saluting?" the Americans toward The machine "You've brought up a wire?" cried "Him? H I, no. But the the ragged man. "Well, 1 call that gun that was on the upper edge ol told him to go back' and not general let any Into a road went action with the fine work. If I'd known you men were cut loose take place. They shooting bringing me a wire I'd have let go a sound like ripping cloth, the two pa before be got there,' but he soon Into melted of motionless trols lumps few slugs at you myself. This is the stopped It Yetsir, he was the man first time In twenty-nin- e years of serv gray, and men went down In the tight that wasn't going to let it happen massed beaten down below, troops ly to a Ice that I've been able draw free again, either. When the general got as fire machine is gun by grass breath and do as I pleased. What the by the water from a hose. The sight was back there, and the scrap was goln h I do 1 want with a wire? I've got on like a bouse afire, this looey has a blinker running and that's enough. too much for the concealed American It only runs one way, that's why I Infantry. The place began to sizzle like it Who knows how to hold this with rifle fire. "Ah. d n the luckl" muttered the road, me or old Foot In the Grave "Now they're off." He bit ten miles back and ninety feet down?" general. "Before we discuss the question any his Up a moment, then turned to further," remarked Connor haughtily, Eadle and Jake. "Is either of you a " he asked. "let's settle the question of rank. "I'm a sergeant, sir," replied Eadle. "I'm a first lieutenant ranking from July "Good. We're In for a red hot fight. 10. 1918. What are you?" The ragged man's Jaw dropped I'm going back to get the wounded out with almost a distinct click, lie of the road and to see how thing? are He there. Stay here and when my messeemed at a loss for words. sengers come back don't let them go gasped. "Rank?" finally breathed the ragged away again. I'm leaving you in charge man In a husky voice. " , are now. Don't let anyone start a panic." all The Germans, recovering from the about Don't tliey worry crazy? rank, lieutenant When I was a first shock of their surprise, unable to relieutenant you weren't born. Go treat because of the number behind, and unable to go forward because of bring me that wire." One of the men that had come up lack of cover, began to ascend the hill with Entile detached himself from the In the face of the American fire. Eadle had heard somewhere that the group and In a few minutes appeared with several more, tugging the end of Germans did not know how to shoot, the wire after them. Lieutenant Con but these he now Cured were an exnor, who had an Instrument, at ception to the rule. Their rifle fire was hot and accurate, and the explotaclied the end of the wire and aftei ome minutes of cranking and calling sions of the grenades were unpleasaut-lclose. The Americans, firing down "hello." he got a response. "There you are," said he to the hill and wildly excited, were firing too high, but as the range became more ragged man. "You can talk to them.' and more polntbluuk their bullets be"Hello," began the ragged man 'Who's this? Ah, well put me gan to find marks and the advance it slowed but it continued, Eadle Had Heard Somewhere That slowed, through to Sheridan. Hello, Sheritha Germans Did Not Know How to dan? General MacLeod speaking. I'm nevertheless. Shoot, but These He Now Faced Eudie, on bis stomach In the middle up here in the woods with a com Were an Exception to the Rule. of the road, watched the enemy come poslte battalion. They belong to every unit In the A. E. F. The rectlfl nearer and nearer.. An explosion at the men all lined np empty !o'. their cation of the line was very poorly his ear nearly split the drum ammunition belts into tbe road so's "Who the h I was that?" cried the done and so we were pinched out 1 couldn't do any more unauthor can hold out until night We've got sergeant, looking around with his hand they Ized firln'. An' all b I loose at this to have some air by then though. at hi? ear. end o' the road 1" The sergeant major Darkness and all that I haven't got "Me," sold Jake. "1 didn't mean to paused and chewed upon a twig. "Boy, any machine guns to speak of. Can hold the old gat so near you. Looklt we'll get the Medal of Uonor out of fixtn" their bayonets. the squareheads yon hear me?" this fight!" be yelled, "us or our The ragged man, who said be was They're gonna rush us I Git out your folks." 'em to want unless a general, wound the crank of the gun, Eadle, you "There they go!" cried Eadie ex telephone. He listened, he called Into come up here an' shake hands with cltedly. "They're pulling out! We've the mouthpiece, and wound the crank usl" licked 'em. G d n their lousy souls I "I guess it's gone," he reIt was true, the Germans were dan again. Look at 'em run!" his near. marked. Eadie drew "Well, they know we're gerously pirtol "Outta bere!" bowled the sergeant alive What the h 1 is eating you?" and pointing It In the general direcspringing to bis feet "outta major, a A doughboy, holding a fired away clip portable pick tion of the Germans, You men down here! there, full in his band, had Joined the group. His breath came In gasps as though backl" He took a whistle from his a time been and bud said the general. long he running "Speak up!" blew upon It with lung The man gave a dry croak. bis heart beat with such speed that he pocket and "Blow your whistle I' "P.oehe!" he said, and pointed with seemed to be suffocating. The enemy bursting force. to cried he Eadle, "get these guys his free hand. were closer than ever, he could even The group all looked in the direc- see their faces now. There was one outta bere! The geueral said the minute they started to go to run like tion ot the place where the road went In particular, a man with a blond musdownhill toward the west That place tache This one was In the right hand had a few seconds before been full ditch and showed himself from time to of doughboys digging holes, arranging time to throw a grenade. Eadie aimed shelter halves over holes already dug at hlra and fired. A few seconds latei or chopping down bushes for camou the blond man leaped up and a gren These had suddenly disapade sailed In the sergeant's direction. flage. . The Jews possess tbe unique He did not hear it burst for he had peared and now one could see nothHon ot being the world's champion ing but a helmet or" two, a few rifle fired again at the German. He missed curse.., one of their own number debarrels and some men prone In the by a mile. . r clares In The Reflex. This writer road, who were looking at something "Steady now," muttered Eadie. out that th. Old Testa-rien- t points downhill below them. "steady." He rested both elbows on contains more cursing thar any "Lieutenant!" said the general the road and steadied his right wrist other great book of literature. quickly and shnrp'y, "you and 1 are with bis left hand. Then he drew a "Cursing," he says "Is common to the only officers here. Go down to careful bead on where he thought the all oriental peoples, but neither the the other end of the road and take German would appear the next time. Arab nor Hindu, Chinese or Japanese charge. Have everyone stop what he's A paure. The German with the blond displays as much fantus.' as does the mustache obligingly put his bead and eastern Jew In doing that he follows doing and find cover. Under no conlet any Shooting sideration start. shoulder out of the ditch. an old tradition. Cursing Is the one Dang! Jump! The rest of you. follow me!" thing that Is not forbidden to the Jew "I hit him!" shrieked Eadie. "Dy He may curse and hle.s to his heart's Endie, Jake, the men who had guarded them, and two others that G d, I hit him!" desire, but his life Is such that he be had not noticed before, went hurThere whs no doubt of thut The has more opportunity to curse than riedly to the edge of the hilt Here Germau was slammed back ugulnst t bless. Yet the curses have their the bunk as by a powerful unseen savor. The literary merit of Jewish they cautiously looked down. There was a deep gulch there that liummer and he remained there, arm curses Is high. They form a distinct outstretched as though he had been artistic contribution. ran diagonally across the road, windnailed to the ground. One or two meu "For Instance: "May yoj possess ing awuy to the southwest Through this gulch marched a great many Ger- took the time to look curiously at sixty castles with sixty rooms In each man soldiers, rifles slung, full packs, Endie over their rifle butts, hut th castle, and may there be sixty beds all hcl meted with that dark steel hood greater port puld no attention. The that looks so much like a coal scuttle. air whs full of unintelligible cries and Tree Toadn at Propheti They flowed along the gulch like a phouts, both In German and English ureas running uphill, not in any and the men had other things on their It is quite commonly believed that ktnt if formation, but Just as any minds than to heed them. the tree toad's loud piping voice U crowd of men would scramble along The messengers that the general had a sign of rain. Llki must weather over rough ground. sent out did not come back. Eadle prophets, however, he cannot be deF.adle tried to" remember something thought of them now and then, 'but pended upon. The skin of the tree he bad learned a long time ago about all the men be could see were Intent toad Is very moist and Is sensitive to the number of men In column of fours on killing as many Germans at pos- the least Increase of moisture in the that would pass a point in a given sible. The enemy, he noticed suddenly, atmosphere. He feels moisture In tbe time. He couldn't remember. wus not pushing the advance. It was air before most other creatures do and Figures were not necessary, anyway. apparent as it le to a watcher on the It la his practice to let the world There were a whole lot of Germans seashore, that the high water mark know be is thankful for It Where bad been reached. there, and that wa enough. be fools people, or rather where Ynu." said the general In an un"Have any of those birds come people fool themselves, la in respect dertone to tha two Inrantrymen, "Jump back?" cried a voice In Eadie ear. to the meaning of moisture In the air. out and tell thone men tn the ditch At the same time a freckled baud It does not necessarily indicate rain, Got to start any shooting. Those Ger splashed into the mad and a man lay but many believe It Joes. Exchange, CHAPTER V non-com?- , ourselves. They're gonna shower down with G. L cans 1" Ewdie's whistle added Its shrieking to the others and at last some of lhet men In the dltcb and In boles at the side of the road began to pay atten tlon. The two noncoms waved tbelr arms frantically and the men began to come In, standing up and climbing hastily out of the dltcb or running down the side hill to the road. "Go back there!" directed the sergeant major, shoving them along tbe road. They obeyed, bending almost double to shelter themselves from any stray bullets. Eadie looked around for Jake as the lust of the riflemen skipped down the man bad taken road. The on the bank and a up sitting position was firing a rifle that be had picked His bolt worked fast, and his up. jaws kept time. The light of battle was in his eye. It was necessary to climb the slippery bank a way and shake the man's arm. Jake turned with unseeing eyes. "Come on, Jake! Lay off shooting, the war is over. Come on, we got orders to fade to h away out of here I" Jake's Jaw stopped its rapid motions and the gleam in his eye died. "Man," he muttered. "This ain't no way to do. I was Just goin' good I" He arose stiffly, however, slung his rifle, and then the three men, bending low, scuttled down the road after the others. The general was there, ushering the men off the road to the right, that Is. There seemed to be a northward. trench or another road there, what It was Eadie could not quite make out Some men were hurriedly hauling In Eadie's wire thatvbad been laid up the road, others were arranging a sort of embrasure In the ditch, so tHnt a machine gun could be set up and bave a clear field of fire down the road, yet be protected from shells striking near at hand. The wounded had all disappeared, but the line of dead with their boots sticking out from under the blankets, still remained. Eadie looked again at those boots. The hobnailed ones were not remarkable, hut there were some that had bare soles with a chain around the arch, but most had those ridges of rubber that the British Invented and call military n 1 soles. "Lesson in duties of liaison detail," Eadie's Jake, sensing thought "What's them with no hob nails? Officers. How come they goi killed? They got between some How come doughboy an' the skyline. they got all carried In here 'stead o heln' left In the fields like the bucks? remarked So's the fightln' democrats wouldn't steal the gold outa their teeth. Man. there's d n few officers fills an un known grave. They carry too many francs In their Jeans." "How come all these officers with their toes In the air?" asked Eadie. turning to the sergeant major. "Battalion staff and company com manders," said the sergeant major "The order come up to retire to rectify the lines, the division on the left hnvin left our flank flyin In the breeze for about five' miles. The hat talion commander has In his captains to explain the retirement to em Down comes a shell, a mean Austrlun 8S, one of them thot conies zipp and you're dead. Well. It slammed rlKhi Into 'em and when the smoke cleared their folks was all ten thousand bucks What May Be Called Fine Art of Cursing dis-tiu- fur-the- In each iom, and may you be shaken from bid to bed. io.ii roo... to room, from castle to castle.- - Or, 'May I live to s.e you on one foot and tuny you have only one eye with which to see me.' Or, 'May God send upon you fou mothers-in-law- .' "But the real cursing that Is done n Ulna, Kovno or Crakow Is strnMit bitter and plain. It Is sl.ocklna ln"lts brutality; It Is brie? and to the point tor example, Ma, the earth not w'. you'; 'the cholera unto vou'; urn the dogs eat your hn.ij and poison their stomachs'; 'may Oo, nnd a Into your house so that -ot be able to movp': rrm you S)n the stars 0r' ''" pmTD a body yor mountain.'" dis-eas- e '"': .a.. e Not Works of Romance Newspaper men called the offi.es of the United Stau's iV corporation to a wait for riods of outcome of official ,wf, ' long wondered why Elhert II G. J!' chairman of the board. o deeply Interested ron?an" n Volumes ot "Ilo.nance. Hi" offi" occupied shelve. D net. otherwise given over oess and reference books ,0 ou a V porter, growing Impatient dlf ought to find in "romance" fe reSp rum the weariness of on" ,0, ""ver that Zuum were merely fabric paste! cardboard, a camouflage forTaps catalogues, pamphlet, and old paper J S '"' to the good. Me an" tbe general an or we'd Adolph was out In tbe field, have got ours, too." "This bunch what is left of the asked Eadie. indicating the now hurrying men, most of whom had siuggishK:81 T AME? Stiff) v Achy) bat-tniton- ?" disappeared In the ditcu to tne nona-,war- "1 guess so," answered tbe sergeant major. "They been stragglln' in all night There's squads left of platoons nnd nlatoons of companies, commanded to privates by anything from sergeants we'll last tin oignt ana then we'll get a summons to surrender, which we won't do, and then the boche will come in bere In the dark and drive the Uvln' tar out of db. Walt an see." "These are the two men," said an I just unpleasant voice, "these two. out to them to you point wanted since they ""on't be under my eye any more." Eadie and Jake turned. Lieutenant Connor stood there, pointing them out to the general. "1 found them skulking," went on the lieutenant, "and they've several times tried to get away from me. I'ru told they made threats about killing me when they got me alone.' "They're a tough looking pair," remarked the general, a slight twinkle In bis eye, "but then we all look a tittle the worse for wear. Civilization's no deeper than a shave and h little touch of the pressing iron, anyway. I'll keep my eye on 'em." The lieutenant favored the two with one last cold look and then going over to the machine gun embrasure, got Into It There were several helmets visible there, and It was plain that the machine gunners had their weapon in readiness. "I'm leaving It to you, lieutenant" said the general, shaking the other's hand from the edge of the hole. "Keep 'em off my back. We'll keep em off yours and our own gang In the woods will keep 'era from crossing to the south." first-clas- aches; dizziness The Sunken Road The moaning cry of soaring shells seeking their prey heralded the arrival of the barrage. The general. Eadie. Jake, the sergeant major and the few stragglers did not await Its arrival, but tore down the roud and plunged into the trench or ditch or whatever If was that ran northward lu a sunken road, hidden among the hushes that lined tt and the thorny hedjre that crowned the top. were the remnant!' of the battalion. They were packed in there like sheep, and having no officers, nor anyone who knew what to do, or where to go, the confusion was terrible. A man wearing a khaki uniform, bat not of American pattern, came g up to the general. It needed n second look to tell that this man wa French. In the first place he wore no slicker. In the second, the buttons on bis uniform were gold, and In the third place he wore a red cord around his left shoulder. He had a number of little loops of thread over bis left breast pocket to suspend medals from. "Gwieral." said the French' soldier, "we ain't got do bullets for de odder gun. Anyway, she's broke Its piston In t ree ekal half an lost one." "And that leaves how many?" "One now un de rudder oiie what's got de lootenunt." "Sergeant major, go round up all the noncommissioned officers and bring them here. Walt here a minute, Adolph. we'll want your advice on this thing." Adolph lighted a cigarette with a oriquet und looked calmly uround. Eadie regarded him. He noted the row of briMjues or service chevrons that the French soldier wore, he noted that he was small, had Intensely black eyes and coarse black hair. The col-ia- r of his blouse bore no device, but from the khaki uniform and the red cord the fourragere of the Legion of Honor, this French soldier belonged to the Foreign leKion. Eadle looked at the other's cuff. There was a diagonal stripe of hra(, thpre "Where did you learn to speak Kiigliah. sergeant?"' he asked "I never learn." answered Adolph was born seriously. i it come from top Canndaw " wf "What are you doing m this 'I dunno mnself. 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