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Show " 1926 JSHA Clifford SERVICE DC PRQVO EVENING HERALD, TVESDAY; DECEMBER 14,1926, L?Ercest r WHAT HAS GONE BEFORE MOL-UT Omi Inmm of FfcOF ELWELL in Osmdemilta, IjmL,m Might 1b Or tote of IW8. MM MAKTHA UALTON. b nurse, s4 hack in CsiudeuviU - back with MU1 sad.Pruf, back with- - the twins.. Ah " H tut hack now fighting with that bully who had paused at the blwelLgack feucw to throw Insulting remarks at the twins. Yea, be was fighting with him, and the man had hit hint. kU Mm itllue left shudder. For the shoulder suddenly burned snfl then grew numb and b recoiled from the shock and stumbled. But it weuJd Ifike jnure than one blow to keep him down. He was up now, getting up and- Hut that was blood running down the front of his blouse. Blood, aud he was filing faint. But he was up again and moving forward. Again thst smell of powder in his nostrils. And the din around him eriett, explosive sounds, and the of the uiqrhine guns-ranthen seeing little puffs of dirt 1, get-tiU- K krsHof a tanu whs had fainted the train oa which Martha had 1 riding. Elwell is aa artist. H hit toQ, JIM, agt4 5. LU thai night ' tola girls are bora U the woman. wh rfiea without revoatine he . aane, Tho dwells adopt the girls. . The story then moves forward It yean. The twins, bow rowing to beautiful womanhood, have been i Batted MARGARET am? . ; ...,- BtTTT, com lug am) 1 -' Amertea enters the World War Elwell enlists. Two nights before he leaves he discovers that one of the twins loves him and he ' to .torn loves her. He tells his soother, but does not tell whMi one, beeauM he wants her to love both of ftheM the same in the event b does not return, li Tws aiontht later he sails for I, v f J v ) f Tailored O ver coats CHICAGO, Dee. '13 (IT) Kenneth G. Ormiston, wanted lu l.os the Angeles In .connect hoi with ease, Aliuee Semple McPberson probably will be brought into tmrt here tumarrow ta show .cui-u- - why ;ie MHKlltl noi ne lemrjMii to me i e California city 'on charges. ! suli- - g oruatlou' of lierjury. Aiue'lus 1. . A warrant for the former Temp!e radio operator's arret isTsi ii on Its way from California by air- L plane. $22150 ONLY ''"" ONLY allwool, silk lined, readyilQjsear ; -- t AU.sizes,. ; .. , : . BllTCHELL-TJlE TAILOR ijiuj ml mmi i cnTnttTr8TliFi nowr ,ifii - "Hey, there, man," . someone shouted at him, "you're hit. don't you know it? Whj lu jielli don't yos go"T.aTk?"". V Jim smiled, saw a nilsfy figure with mi aiitiimutic- - pistol In Its band, lint he bad never seen, this man 'before and be grinned a sickly grin and kept on. And then, suddenly, a loud explosion somewhere lack of him, and something came up from the ground and bit him. Hit him in the leg, and he dropped, down. He lay there for several minutes and. this time when he tried to' get up his legs just refused to do the work. They buckled under hi mi mio tic half sat, half In v down In , queer liuddleil itosition. And now It all came back to him lenrly. He was not back In Cm. denville. after all. and hi was a soldier and this wasi an actual buttle. This was what war was like. STORY CHAPTER XIV i privileges a (forded Jim during the seven months following bit arrival In France were no different from those of a million Other soldiers of I'ncle Sam "over there". They entitled him to wort, Vi est, sleep and drill in a cantonment estop. ' Fof it .was discovered very shortly after reaching Frsiu-- that the American army was an unprepared As they npproaehed the Ourcxj one branch climbed the hills east looked uiion even by the Germans as rsjy. of BclU-aWood and continued to; one of the best American shock .Tbe first t'nlted States troop river "the trooiWof Which Jim ElThe other turned troops.. And while Jim Elwell, who part en- Chateau-Thierry- ,' were landed In Prance in May ami well, buck private, was Jnne of 1917; The first shot fired countered hundreds and thousands south and ran along the eastern played his small part In this vic tory, got no medals for his Work, t. 21, four of' refugees fleeing before the in- ed'e of the woods through 'the By any of them wan In lie tried to iimye iiml failed. And of Bonresche, joining the he got but we are getting ahead vading hordes. Old men, women and Rtmitbs after their iiiiHh then he begun to sob. lie bad forof our story. railway at Vaux. America's contribution to the children' with such of their house- I'arls-Met- s From the many ledges and rocks gotten the pain In his shoulder luit World War divided itself roughly hold effects as they could pile into fchere the road following the carts wheeling along in front of southern of the wood, the Germans were di his leg where that rock had hit him, 0f three periods, naincly : of the forest and edge machine gun was Hurting horriblv. The period het ween March and ! liein or beside them; Kouie. crying, Is where the first American Ma recting His head was swimming now and 111 with still others others fire. had their curious, "cursing, They of when dug I'lilted the 1918, August rines that fell in battle In France tried to think of MoTlie and Prof he faces. holes!.' to' "fos expressionless stolid, provide States troops fought under French crossed the brook just east of Lucy protecting and the twins, but somehow. he lust the guns with, cover. , command Hcnimiiits of (he French Division, were buried. at Oantigny and also beAnd Jim, advancing in the face wouldn't, think of anything. . . . The tween the A (sue and Marnc; that retiring after defeat, also were met The western slope, which faced of bullets Iong with the wave- - of ground where he lav was stained between Ang. ft ami Sept. 15, when. These waved to the advancing the Marines, compelled the Ameri- American troops, saw, man after red. .1 im sighed gently, and the . Pejshlng organized the American Americans, new hoie in their eyes. cans to move finder direct observa man fall In front of him, to either sounds faded from his ears and the PirsrArmr and led it to battle nt: "(Vniirades," "tliey called theni. St. Mllilcl, and then that period lie-- , Private Perkins, lute of Prince- tion and thus to suffer heavy losses. Side of him. Heard the sing or those sight of moving men was suddenly twees St. Mihiel and the Armistice, ton, said tin Private Elwell, "Poor The bighetit point of this wood hvuk-e- deadly little lead messengers, the shut off. His bid fell over on his over the ruined village of Bel scream of shells, the cries of the outflung arm and stayed there.... fellows. They look all in." the campaign ofhe , r Ignres moved over iho battle lenu and the crosswords, and whs wounded. Hence it was thanp until March "They've been through an nwful crowned field. The din had died down now by a little stone tower. of 4918 Jim found hlmsejf, along time of it, I guess," Jim replied. Saw Private Perkins, lute of On June C, at daybreak, the sec Princeton, fall with a bullet through and the woods from which had come With something more than aujillion "Well, we'll be there soon ourond of their occupation of this front his breast, saw him smile a ghastly that deadly machine gun fire were other United States soldiers, play selves. I guess." still. These were .messengers of ing the old watchful and waiting"! June 1 was the dny on Which the the Marines attacked the enemy. smile, and die. game of "Just looking on." Jim Elwell kept telling himself mercy that now moved, across the Keemid Division faced the Germans. But their attack was not a.success, lit was a year after the United Their line "reached northward from and they began trying to hack their that he was afraid. But he kent area, whore brief hours before the States had declared war that the the iintioiiitkhighway and encircled way through the forest. Their loss- - j .moving on." A man beside him messengers of death had been hurled. es were heavy and continuous, al screamed and divisions were preparing fur the little village of dropped. Jim sliud- TJhe.werM!fj!nijip.ih IjLOfflclsLdxtfuiBejitsJaM- - theAlsne-tbeihiu.3t frxim ihutJime the though the Germans had to rein- ilored. Yes, lie kept telling WiliSell the Wounded. Someone t last came III American action described American sector. Following Is a de- force (heir troops time and again. he was afraid. across the still figure, that lay In It Was on Jiin 25, nfter relievThe uproar was hideous. Thtrt the scription of Mils sector, from Frank queer, huddled position, knees Itiwas the "Tanks" Division, to II. Sin'iomls' history1 and maps Of ing the French, that the Second acrid smell burned in drawn of gunpowder up close to the chin, bend Division, of which Jim Elwell was bu$i. Jlnj Elwell had been trans-- ' the World War: , bis nostrils. From the woods abend on one ontflung' arm, while ferrWl, that reached France in The P.ois de Bellenu, Stretching a unit, joined the Marne brigade. puffs of smoke kept bursting, each resting Angiit of 1917. In May of 1918 before the larger portion of the They were assigned the task of puff packed with death, he told the. other liainF stretched out: limply and fell just short of the rifle grin. Ught active divisions had arrived American front, constituted a con- routing the'' Germans. That same himself. ' Strong hands lifted Jim Elwell up JlJ.'that time Jim had again been siderable area of dense woods which day they took the fentlre forest, and And then a strange emotion took from the ground and bore him back Jim Elwell learned war was. what extended-frofound Decoration the little brook Just Pay hold of him and It seemed that he on a stretcher E'snsferred. to nil ambulance fillwith the Second Di- enst of The Second Division did Its work was moving in a dream. It all was ed with tbe northward living' and the dead and vision south of Beauvais. This di- to the highway running east froth and did it well. On 5 It turned untrue, unbelievable. It was not he, July those who were to die. , vision later was ordered to proceed Ton y and forking, just outside, the over Its front to the New England Jim Elwell, that was here keeping o the Marrie .area. village of Kelleuu. 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