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Show THE SAUNA SUN. SAUNA. UTAH C3 CHAPTER VI -- HJV 4 By LEONARD NASON Continued Illustrations by Irwin Myers, D. S. C. 14 All right, men," he said, "and, Adolph, pay attention and it yon have any snggeatlons, be sure to Interrupt me. This place that we're in is a triangle, two sides of which are formed by gulches and the base by our lines on the woods. Were up In the nose of it The enemy has appeared on our ' left and that's the plate that we must watch the closest The right Is. under fire from the division on that side, al though its a little way back. Our rear is protected because the enemy cant cross the plateau m the face of our troops In the woods, who are only waiting for night to advance and get us out of here. Meanwhile, 1 want each of you men to take charge of thirty men. Take the first thirty you come to, let them know who you are, talk to them, explain what's going on. tell them that theres nothing to be afraid of as long as they obey orders. Then Inspect your thirty men. See how much water they have, if they have any food or not, how much ammunition they have. Keep 'em under cover. Ill be walking up and dowD and keeping my eye on you ail the time. 1 left the other machine gun there in the ditch with Lieutenant Connor and ten men. They can keep the road clear. The second gun Im going to use as a reserve to run to any threatened point. We wont have . any attack anyway, because the enemy have no intention of bolding this sector. and they know very well if they take this hill they only lose it tonight when the array advances again. Any questions? If not, posts. Ill be around In ten 'minutes to see what disposi tions you have made." There was a droning, bum like a' . huge fly buzzing against a window-pane- . Everyone flattened. himself" against the bank, for there was not a man there but knew that that sound " heralded the- - approach of a German plane. It swept ovpr them suddenly, .flying low, and- it seemed to cast, a black shadow- that remained even after y .had" passed. . It swooped, dr . iled, went westward, banked ground. returned, anil then making a circle . over the sunkdh road, fle.w 'back the : . ..way Jf had eonre. . mtittebed' dbme Never say us-le . . one. The general '.looked. questioning .at Adolph. The Boche- - send hfm .to see what "ghm her attack u. said Adftlph." .. . Did be see ns .von thinKl 1 Oh,, yes In tyvo minute, "dat baf-e road an ve hear rage she stop de mosheen gun. If de boche come . trough,. good. If Iie dont, dey .go .back an she starts its artillery. . Well. Inrap ont. men.saidthe gqn-- . . eral. 1 Work fast. Shefl firemakes n lot of noise, but wee got good cover . . .here: Posts ! . The. men went atfay at a trrrtVTehT ;lifg Jake, Eadie, the sergeant major' and Adojph with tie .yeneraL . . Do you think its likely we'll .he . pushed ? askfcd the general. ' Adolph shruggqd his Shoulders. ?Dat Bimeby. when It depend, said be. .. gets darker, we go put. an. try to "catch one two prisdners- - If 'sheh a . hunch, old .fellars dey shell us all If shes young ones, fubt back . night from Roosha, mebbe she comes ln tft . ..see us.' The You looked aroun'd. general y . telephone men. Jump Bowd to .the eh d . ofthe road and gel that wlr working. .Sergeant . major. And oiy where 'the blinker ls. and see if we chd get a; place to" use.lt withquf exposing. our. . selves." Eadie, to lighten himkelt, tore off nis slicker and-' overcoat H.is pistol and belt he rolled in his owrcpat. andthen tuck?ffathe bundleiinder a bush.. .His Islickef he put on again. Where were you wounded, ser. . doting g.eant? asked" the general,. ! ' Kadies sfripe. . .. . .,1 was shot In. the leg, sir," replied . . ,,. dn-d- -- .. .. - . . ' . . . . .Fully recovered? Yes. sir ." Come on. Jake, lets go. trotted dowm the path The two toward the place where they had last seen the wire a.nd the telephone.. 1 was wonderlD how long It would . v take you to snap out of it an sa.v you .was hit, grinned Jake. Its Just as easy to say you was knocked over by a bullet as to gay you got a month or :. ro In hospital by mistake. They ain't goin to make you peel down an: show scar." . your "Thats Just what I decided." replied Eadie. .The telephone they found bung to a tree by Its carrying strap and d guarded by a Infantryman Eadie ground the crank. Hello !" replied a voice at the other end of the wire with a suddenness that was surprising. Wait a minute. Eadie sent Jak running for the general, while the in fantrymau who had guarded the telephone and the sergeant nao a dga rette to cheer them. The general was hack in a minute and picking up the receiver, asked for a connection. That's all, men, be said over bis shoulder. The men retired, but they had only taken a few steps when Eadie. whose cigarette had developed n break in the side, paused to lick It down and then light It again. The other two stopped to wait for him and thus they heard the general begin his conversation Yes. know." said ti e general Into the telephone, but Id like to know what you're 6oing to do abont It Water Is the mulD question, water and food. Can you hear me? We havent ' . sad-eye- : " 1 1 H. Doran Company. WNU Servlc Copyright by Georg got any water. Ive got twenty-tw- o wounded here. How about artillery fire? Can you help me any? Now. thats a feeble excuse! The three men looked at each other and continued their way. The general had dismissed them so that they would not hear and if it suddenly cut short his conversation and found them listening he might be vexed. Whadda we do now? asked Jake. Well dig ourselfs a hole," said the When In doubt, dig in. Infantryman. If the holes Ive dug was to be put end to end theyd mode a trench from lie took off here to Weehawken." his pack, and unslung the spade carNow Ill find . me a ried there. homhre thats got a pick an well He make out to get underground." went down the ditch. Its handy to know a fellar thats got a spade, observed Jake. '. Want to dig yourself in? grinned ' : . Eadie.. . No, said Jake, "but some of us are liable to heed buryin," You want to keep away from shovThe next els," remarked Eadie. worst thing Jo being burled yourself Is a burying detail. . Wed better And ourselves a rifle.". For a while great activity reigned in the sunken road. The men were digging themselves fox . holes In the side of the bank, the sergeants' were Inspecting their new platoons and checking up on the amount of water, food available. The reports from all were the spe. Tile men had.ben fighting since early morning of the day before and their water was about gone. What, little there was had beep commandeered for the wounded.- There was no food 'beyond one or two bojes of hardtack, and this among trfo hundred men- - was amount of mockery. There was e rifle ammunition, but Very little gun. , The- - woufided bacl been" Jaid aside .where .tbe overhang of the bank gavfe them 'a little shelter jnd some medical corps men took charge. bad Only ajiouj- - sii of the twenty-tw' : stretchers- . The "general, returned (rom fhe telephone .and, commanding" Jake and Eadie to .follow .him, went up and down, dihprtlng The .men rwere cold. . hungy; and frightfully tlred Thirty three hours is a frightful strain on" the syslem, jnentaj .and ph.v- slcal, anrf it Is, doubtful.lf a ipfin that has -- undergone It la ever ihe same . hauling to free the bayonet that be bad plunged Into the Germans back. Elsewhere the fight raged as before. The Americans and the enemy were too closely mingled to allow the use of even pistols. It was bayonet, pick shovel, trench knife, thus and teeth. The Germans still poured over the hedge, but their own numbers hamThe Americans, their pered them. backs against the bank, had only to hew at the gray mass, with whatever weapon came to hand. Eadie recovered his pick and swung with it He chopped at rifles, at bayonets, at heads, feet, bands, arms, backs, shoul: ders, anything In gray. He swung until bis head swum. His breath came In gasps, there was a taste of blood In bis throat, bis mouth was dry as His arms ached and desert sand. there came a time when it was impossible for bim to raise the pick from the ground. It fell finally from his bands and be sank down against tbe He bad done what bank exhausted. he coaid sind bow there was nothing to do but wait for death. Feet tramped up and down, mud splashed, men- rolled on tbe ground, twisted from one bank to the .other,, fell down, got up, - and fell again. Eaiiie8 breath finally, returned, his arms- grfew stronger; the dryness in his - - o kfterwari - . The-bofh- s. .. y buyo-TThT- from the right hand side had been 6horn away as by a knife. Ills gas mask rattled and a tiny flow of charcoal sifted out. Soldier, said Eadie, you rammed that bayonet clear through that Jerry and Into me. If It hadnt been for that pair of field glasses youd have spiked me, too. Look at my gas mask. What the h I good will It be now?" Yeh, I rammed that sticker Into him, thats the truth, agreed the gloomy man 1 was nenr an hour gettin It out again. Yuh wanta be klnda careful with that d n thing," said Jake hotly. This aint no second lootenant, hes 8 snrglnt You dont wanta go killin no sargints! Uhhuh I" agreed the gloomy man Well, that was a nice little fight. Eadie noticed that the doughboy had a brace of German helmets In his right band and that Jake bad about his waist a leather belt with a brass buckle that bore a crown and the device, Gott MIt Dns." Into this belt was thrust a Mauser pistol and a sawtoothed bayonet with a red and white tassel attached. Ill say," muttered Eadie. "There was a time when I thought the party was over and we were licked and all of a sudden It was the boche that were ticked." Yep, said Jake, "we seen thut toe. I. aint above explainin that when 1 seen the Jerries Jumpin over the hedge. I. took my foot in my hand. Enough Is enough, an like I explained, I dont want to get killed before I fix np that But I run little Insurance matter. the wrong way. I run up to the end of the road where the machine gun was. Well, youd never believe it. but the Jughead gunners had It off the tripod and. were tappin heads with It Well, I aint klddip. we done a Virginia reel there for a while. Then the general comes wadin' up through the crowd to know where the h I the machine gun Is. He sets It up" hlmseit Sargint, I wish you could have seen the that gunner turned and It wasnt no kraut that hit him either. Well, the guti gets goin an that stops em. from Jumpin over the hedge, anwe got to workln' on those that was already over." An It wasnt long before their name was Excrement neither, added . , loop-the-loo- p It. WasBayonet- - Picl, Shovel, Trench Knife, FieU. and Teeth.' , 'mouth disappeared. The fight still boiled dnd it behooved him to take par.t in it again. Theif it was that bis eye discovered a dead doughboy beside him and this man held a rifle loosely in bis bands. Eadie took it. threw off the safe, saw that the magazine bad cartridges In it and then looked about for a target. Tbe Germans had ceased to come in over the hedge. .At the lower end of tbe cart track stood two Americans with their hands in tbe atr, but at the upper end stood four Ger mans In the same attitude. A German was walking calmly np tbeputh from the lower end, a man whose bearing, uniform, - and. thin gold shoulder straps proclaimed him an otti eer. He had a pistol in his band .and motioned with It to Eadie to lay dwD, at point the rifle. Him Eadie-sho- t blank range. . Another German turned at the slam of .the' rifle aud fumbled at his belt for a- - grenade. Eadie shot him, too. '..Then a rushing trampling mob poured down the path, and bounding against the high walls and falling into the ditch, destroyed all opr port unity for rifle, shooting It was over. The trampling mob nad been a number ot Yanks from-thupper end of the road who hud cleared their sector and come .to the old ol their comrades in the lower end' The Americans were In possession of the sunken cart path. .The general, pistol in hand, strode dowu the. road counting the bodies of- the slain There were two and three Germans to every American, but what ot that? The Americans had lost ot their effective strength In killed and disabled. Jake appeared, walking side n side with t tie gloomy doughboy wh had guarded the telephone. Jake was a wreck. His gas mask was gone en tirely. the strap ot his nelmet dan gled in two halves, and bis blouse ripped from collar to waist, gaped whle. showing his barrel of a chest thick with matted red hair. "There's yhe sergeant." cried the gloomy dougnboy, "there he Is. Are yub hurted? No." said Eadie dully. It wus me that socked that hun." said the gloomy man. 1, wouldu spiked him sooner, only you two don-thHighland fling so lively I couldu t see no chance. Then, all ot a sudden, sock I I thought my sticker was Id hint for the rest o the war." Boy. cried Jake, setting bis hel met. and trying to tie (lie eDds of the chin strap together. I ain't had so lively a time since the night I sung the Battle o' the Boyne In a caffy full o the Twenty-sixtdt division. Sargiut, If youd been born south o the Line, Id say yon wh gettin rid of your dark blood." Eadie looked down In astonishment A long stream vf black stained tiw . ; well-fittin- g - two-thir- x x x x Baby J Brnr C.,27S . Monthly, mebbe utes, metibe." said Adolph, some more. It It don't move, it aln t shottln' no bullets, an we can go out to see what dat mosheen gun do." But we can't sit here on the flat of fifteen minutes. Supour. baoks-f- o'r pose another attack Is pulled off while were waiting? No, no. Let's do something quick. i i i: x Happy Widow from loneliness, she continues to smile. And I do Dot blame her; i knew her husband, an exceeding1? man. E. W. Howes disagreeable - eral'. . We watch her. two ten fifteen min' x . know a widow who Is supremely buppy. When other widows weep 1 the general, she or he or they didn't answer. What then? "Give me your helmet," said Adolph, when they bad come to the place where the cart path went into the main road Before the other could protest he bad snatched tbe gloomy rnau's helmet from bis bead. Ueyl cried the gloomy man, but Adolph had alreudy crouched and spun the helmet out upon the main road. Whafa that for?" asked the gen- : pound of body weight dally. 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Adolph came slipping along through the mud andthe geueruUt.urjiedaUth&J e :- y Tluth Brittain .Connor of it Is," said off all their gun ammunition. . They aint got . A Famous aithority's'RuIe 1 1 one cartridge left . . The Americans had beaten off tbe attack. Score, one for tbe ragged doughboys, hungry and cold. They bad beaten off a savage attack of three times their number. Yet another one like It would finish them. Tbeir rifle ammunition bad not been depleted but tbeir machine gUD ammunition was gone, they had sixty wounded In place and thirty dead, among of twenty-two- , whom was the sergeant major. There were also eight men missing men who bad been sent out Into the field asscout8. Why had they not given warning of the attack? Who could say? They were all dead now, all eight of them, and If one looked .cautiously through the hedge he could count their, bodies among the gray ones, that dotted the field. . .In the. sunken cart path there was great .activity. Men bound up each others wounds, there was a emit Inn ous ras.p of first aid packets being ripped. open, others searched the belts f the- - fallen for ammunition, still others dragged their own dead to a place- - apart and threw the German HowMudiWatep Should Baby Get? d .. the gloomy man. . "Yeh, but the h Jake? that they shot . Keep year, rifles put oftlje mud, ordered tbe genertfl, and b.e s.ure "to make Vuurselves ood .shelters." wtfnt attack us.but were liable . to gdtsome shelling during the nght.. Relief Is comingat "dark, but. they may be some time gettlngacross the field bole dug and, try. to Evefyone. get.-higet .some rest. 7 . There va"s a. sudden1 sound.' clear "cut and distinct, It was cfose at band, excited, frantic. It .took .the listeners hut 8 few. 6econdsto decide .what It Vas. It was the gun on the'main road In actiou and It meant that the enemy was trying to come up thafway From the upper end of fhe cart path .came a hurly-burlof cries; then from the field to the west a hoarse shout. .Uoch! and, again, Hochl Hochl. Eadie seized a bush, and swung himself up thebank to where he could see through the hedge.. An army. In gray overcoats add coal scuttle helmets was coming acruss the fi?ld and comlDg fast. They were not ten yards away and their first grenades barked as Eadie leaped Into the ditch again, tits feet landed on the cart, path and In recovering his. balance bis hand lighted od something hard. The Germans came through the hedge, then, foremost.. Eadie dazedly eudeaV-oreto parry, a vicious thrust with whatever bt ha.d picked up.' it was 'a pick and the end of it clawed a Germans rifle out of his grasp. Then be and the sergeant clinched. Eadie had been at grips with many men on different uccasions. But tills was no wrestling mutch, uor was It a task like that ol putting a violent soldier under restraint, nor yet the rollicking .fierceness ot cute cieunouts. Ibis man wanted to kill him. In Just the second before their bodies met, Eadie had seen the other s eyes. They were hard and blue, and hate and hloodlust blazed from them. All the nakedness of a man's soul gone buck to primeval savagery looked ouL The German's teeth were white und firm bare to the gums in a snarl ol rage Then their bodies had met. The German was the stronger, that wus plum at the first grip, yet Eadie managed to catch his heel behind tho other's anl bring bim to one knee. The German was up instantly, bowevet, but both reeled In the slippery footing Eadie got one arm free and Jabbed tor the others Jaw, but the blow lacked force, for the men were too close Al the same moment the German, dls arm likewise free, shot up his hand like a striking snake and seized Eadle's throat In a grip of steel. Gah I Thus the sergeauL There wus the thud of a blow und Eadie found biiuself on tils back m the mud on bis hack, but free. He scrambled to bis knees, but the Genuuo wus roll tog about on the ground in the strung est kind ot contortions, jerking back ward all the time, us though tie were a crab. Now why Eadie raised his eyes and saw a doughboy tugging and front of his blouse clear down below the waist What the b there was a long wound In his gas mask aDd this wound wept black soot With a quick and apprehensive gesture Eadie seized the majors field glasses that he carried In back of bis mask. The leather bodies into tbe ditch. Tbe more practical lined tbe hedge wub tbeir dead enemies, to keep out stray bullets. Out of this welter of activity appeared tbe general again. Come on, yon, he said to Eadie and the other two, I'm going to telephone some more. If the wire Is out youll have to go repair it" He expressed oo surprise that they were still alive, but stalked down the muddy road, past the four German prlsouerB, mutter'ng something about broad daylight," and who the b I would have expected It?" Who was fool enough to take them four boche?" asked Jake, Some simple-mindeguy, replied Endie. It's lucky they werent Dear me. 1 bad a pick and their heads took a h of a lot like rocks." These four prisoners were guarded by a hnggard, bearded nnin who looked as L be were trying to make up his mind to shoot them, but hadn't quite the courage. The telephone worked. Five minutes for the connection and the general began to speak. Hello, I asked for Sheridan. Who'a Yes, this? Oh. Good afternoon. sir." There was a long pause while the general listened and Eadie could see bis jaw muscles tightening. The general suddenly booked tbe reeelvlng apparatus on tbe side of the Instrument and, taking tbe box by the strap, be swung it once or twice and then by a mighty heave, burled it out of sight over the hedge. The general'a face had become very old,. the lines from nose to mouth looked as If they hnd been cut there with an ax. Ills cheeks bad fallen In like the skin of a squeezed orange. Theres an old army Joke," said be to no one In particular, about the first message that comes Tn after communication has beeD broken off for a long time. They always ask you, the men at the safe end of tbe wire, why you havent rendered your ration return for the moDth of August ten years ago, or something similar. Ita the ghastly truth. This ass has Just told me that If 1 have no better sense than to give away tuy position to tbe enemy by a lot of Indiscriminate firing, be washes his hands of me. Well, now when 1 get out be goes to Blola. Im here from G. II. Q. and 1 can bave any mans head In the A E. F. That Isnt a threat, thats a promise. 1 was a plebe at West Point when he graduated, but he never did bave any sense.. He couddnt pour water out of a boot with directions printed od the heel," Tbe general reeled a little bit and wiped tbe blood that trickled down from a stab wound In bis arm.. He looked at the three silent soldiers with I wonder how my maa glassy eye. chine gun In the road Is, be muttered. Then summoning his breuth, be put nls hands to his mouth and shouted. ) ' my husband. He criticized me for almost nothing. Mrs. Blunt What did he do say you were wearing it? Boston Tran- script Ancient City Found city has been discovered at in the Peruvian mountains, said to date back thousands of years. The ancient relic contains frume houses which, from a distance, give the appearance of glittering gold. A Hava-vabamb- a, . 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