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Show THE S A LINA SITN. S A LINA. UTAH Intervals. Tnere were things lo that ditch that be bad to crawl over, shafting his eyes when be did so.' He paused at laBt for a long time listenlie took ing, but could tell nothing, one of the grenades from bis pocket and continued the Journey. A faint hissing tightened Eudles muscles and brought him to a breath less halt The hissing gradually died, but not before Eadie bad discovered where It came from. It was the steam D. S. coming from the tube that be had seeo with bis field glasses. The tube lay WXU Barrie In the ditch. Its open end still breath Ing faint vapors, and the other end out of sight over the high bank. two grenades from this man. These going Under cover of his slicker and blouse he pnt Into the pockets of his slicker Eadie cautiously pulled the ring from and turning, walked down the path to the grenade. Then, oh, so carefully the extreme southern end, past the he seemed to flow along the bottom of prisoners there, and so to the malD the ditch till he came to the tube. It road. He listened here a few minwent up like a black vine and at the utes, then as a loud clattering began, of It was what Eadie sought He top stopped, began again, and then was stood up. finally hushed, he nodded his bead Jake," he breathed, if you can see In satisfaction. me now, watch this." Then he threw "I knew the d n thing was there, the grenade. he muttered. He lay down and wrigUp Into the air It went over the around as the had he the corner, gled Immediately hank, and disappeared. other time, but the view had changed There were no German dead now and that hellish pounding began again, a the gun was gone from the pit Hut buzzing as though the grenade had what Interested Eadie, sweeping the been a stone that disturbed a thouEadie shivered. road and the high banks on both sand rattlesnakes. sides with his glasses, was that from He did not know much about grethe south ditch arose a little cloud ot nades he should have counted bedesteam, and looking for the course of fore he threw It suppose It was It and found fective suppose they this steam, he could see a long black An ex tube that ascended the bank and dls- - dropped It back CKACK1 even the above audible pound plosion Ing. The pounding stopped, whimper Ing cries, a rumor of running feet, silence. Eadie, "1 Now, then," thought guess that pays for Jake." He turned around very, very carefully to go back, but Instead he paused and hia heart began to beat rapidly. Why go back? Why not go up and see what was at the other end of the bean stalk? He had another grenade and might as well use It here as anywhere else. There are times, after all. In battle, when a mans heart begins to sing, for he knows that the thing he Is about to do Is likely to cost him hts life, but he Is going to do It Just the same and he feels Justly proud of himself that he has the courage. Eadie turned, then, once more toward the bank. He tugged out the ring of the second grenade and looked np The bank was too steep to climb there, but a few yards down the road the rain had washed out a gully. To this place Eadie crawled. Then, standing up, he took a short start and ran np the gnlly at full speed, came out In the field and flung himself down. He stayed there five minutes before he No one had dared raise his head. They Got Me," Said He; Can Yuh fired at him, there was no shout, no Tie That?" grenade banging, so he Judged It safe to look around. The first look satisappeared over the top. It was still fied him. too light for him to cross the road Not far down the field was a dead where he was, but If he got Into the and near him the waist of anGerman north ditch and went downhill on the was a hole there, evi There other. cross and there east side, he could and the legs of the second dently. It was come up In the other ditch. were In this hole. Eadie went German a worth try. The hole was occupied by two Til probably get full of lead," he there. one still alive, and by more Germans, muttered, wriggling Into the muddy that looked like a stovepipe a thing ditch and crawling carefully down on a sled. This was a heavy type mahill to the left, that Is, toward the chine gun, Its support In the prone but Its better than staying Meuse, position. The tube from its cooler In that hole waiting to be killed. went over the edge of the bank Into Halfway down the hill be paused the road and It was the steam from und rolled bis helmet out Into the this tube that Eadie had seen. The road. No action. He listened for t tie German machine gun. the Maxim Ho. No sound. thudding of bullets. model 1907, has Its barrel water-coolethen, gathering bis legs under him. and. the water boiling after he leaped across the road, grabbing hundred shots, steam Is five about up his helmet In one sweep. Still siso that the location of the lence He began to worm his way up ejected, be readily detected, were It would gun the hill again, but before he reached not for the tube that Is attached to the top a shell hooted down and tore the cooling reservoir, and which con itself apart very close to the place the steam to a distance or to ducts where he hnd crossed the road. The where it cannot be visible some place place was under observation then the to enemy. Endle cursed. If they started chasing Now how the h 1 am ! going to hint with shells, probably from a hat get this thing back?" muttered Eadie. tery on the east bank of the Meuse, If he could only signal for a little well his spoil plans they might very l,eli the thing was too heavy to take The second shell, however, burst In the field toward the American lino hack atone. Why and after It came quite a lively horn By Go d" cried Eadie. If the Germans rushed hurdmeuL Whoever had seen Eadie take It hack? the hedge again he could take them had thought It was the American?-tryinto escape to thetr own lines iu flank. If they came along the road, and so the German artillery began t they were hs meat The grenade that lie still held tn his hand he hurled In pound the field, south of the road Eadie continued Ids progress, hm the general direction of the German lues In case any one there was com slower and slower, more and mr carefully. He breathed ouly at long ing to see what had happened to the CHIEVIRGN By LEONARD NASON Illustrations by IRWIN MYERS, Copyright by Georg H. Dora Company. Continued CHAPTER VI 15 Ive sot a pair ot Eadie, "and field glasses, sir,' in ay lie If I can crawl Just the llttlest tilt around the corner might he utile to see the gun end tell If there was anyone behind Offered 1 the breastwork. the general, Good Idea," agreed "only go ahead and do It quickly." Eadie at once crept- uu hands and knees to the edge of the bunk Hnd then lay down and wriggled uround. oblivious of the mud. until he could The see along the road westward. helmet lay a til He way to tils left motionless In the center of the road Lifting his tiead slightly, he could see the gunplf some twenty yards away Eadie brought tils glasses to hear and was distinctly shocked by the effect The powerful lenses shot the gunpll right under Eadles eyes; he could see the crumbling sod, the mud with which the breastwork hud been put and the pucks that were Its lie wriggled a little foundation further. Ah I There were Uve dead Germans ,n the mud of the road, lying curled up as though they slept, but the flat, punctured appeurunee ot those men showed that they were deud. The sight ot them was cheering. It showed that the gunplt hud been rushed and that the rushers had been repulsed. If so the gunners must be all right, but lying low awultlng an other attack. Maybe they could see Eadie couldnt. Again that something he looked at the gunplt. There was the mud. the hastily cut sod, a corner of a blanket, an empty dip. Just a corner of the gunplt was In view and tn this corner some soldier had east his slleker. Eudle brought the glass to bear on the breastwork at that point, for the sleeve of the dicker was draped over It. From this sleeve drooped a wrist and hand, a purplish d hand, with blue nails. Eadie thereupon crawled bnck to the min In the cart path. Sir," .reported Eadie, the gun crew are all deud. I couldnt see Into the pit, but I saw the gun oil the tripod and a dead mans bund, and If there were any men In there alive they wouldnt leave a guy lying like that, however careless they might be of a gun barrel." What killed I thought as much. them, could you tell?" "No, sir. The hoche had rushed them and there were some stiffs tn front of the gun. Grenudes did U. probably." What will we do, Adolph V usbed the general. "Youve been at this longer than 1 have. Every war has Its peculiar phases and Im never the man to claim that I know everything. What do you advise me to do?" "Mebbe we wait for de arrerplune, suggested Adolph. "If dot not take too long time. De boche she'll send us one for to see what we do nest. If phe don send, look out for annud dcr attack. If she send, look out for shells. We got two roads to cover, die one an de rudder one." Thefe was a puttering sound on the main road clicking end rattling as though ghostly horses trotted there. "No," said Adolph, after all hud lls-- , tened a few seconds, "we only got one road for a while. She tirin moeheen gun on de road. Like 1 tide you. watch out for arreiplanes. "Conte hack," ordered the general. "Ill fix that." He borrowed Emile's whistle and blew It shrilly for atten lion. "Keep up your courage, men," said he, "youve done well. They wont bother us any more uftei that repulse lu case an ulrplune appears I want everyone to take his rifle and get uady to Are It. But don't Are until I give the signui. When I blow the whistle, Ore a volley. If I thtuk we can get in a second one. Ill blow again. We may not bring him down, hut well drive him away. Thats all. r.cineiuher, dont tire until I give the signal. Come Adolph, let's go up ami arrange some kind of service of se curliy for the upped eud of this place. You men stay here. "He dont know the half ot It, remarked Jake when the general had gone, "I know what were gonna get out of this fight. Six feet o French real estate and a pat with a shovel An I give up a good Job curryln' mules to le a liaison man." A never knows what a guy g- -n IJut he Is till he goes to war." remarked the gloomy man. "1 used to drive a milk route au I was because I had to get tlwajS Hut t t:p at three In the utornln. an could sleep got home at all the rest of the day If I wanted to An' now I aint shut my eyes for a week. Maybe more. It was such a long time ago I lost track." "Now," said Endle, Ashing In the pockets of his muddy blouse, "well We have a tailor-madcigarette. jarent dead yet and we may live to see another pay day. I crave to. The engle hasn't done his old bit for me for long time and Id like to spend a tittle niouey before I do my part to .make Fiauders fields fertile." "There," remarked Jake, Interrupt trg his task of pinning his tattered Mouse together wit wfu plus trout - clay-colore- ten-thirt- y e "thats Just lu line with my thought This here army promised us food, lodging, an medical attend ar.- ee free. We aint hnd neither for a week. Ive a mind to write to the pa pers about It. The worst thing Ive bandoliers, found about war Is that there aint no noon hour. They works double shift all night, too." I wonder if those Jerry stiffs out In the field have got any chow on them," euid Endle. Theyre In full pack. I think we could get out to them If we went at It carefully." We enn look anyway," agreed Jake. He and Eudle reached up amt took hold ot some of the hedge roots and hoisted themselves up the hank very, very carefully. The thought had Just come to Eadie that tt might he a foolhardy thing to leave the cover ot the bank. wheD the hedge was sud denl.v beaten as by a gust ot wind. SWISH I Twigs and dead leaves Hew. The two men at once let go their holds and fell to the bottom ot the ditch, where Eadie scrambled hastily to tils feet. He hnd heard be side him that sinister heavy thud that means a bullet has found a resting place, and he knew that Juke was hit Jake still lay In the mud and In that second all the color had left his face, leaving It a deud white behind bis red beard. "Whcred It get yuh? cried Eiplle, lifting Jake's shoulders and eliding his own knee under them for support,. The gloomy man looked on In open Jake grinned, a mouthed horror. feeble grin that died away almost as soon as It began. They got me, said he, "can yuh tie that?" Then, even while Eudle laid him down again and reuched for his first aid packet, be was dead. The life hnd run out of him In those few seconds and Endle had felt It going, had felt the shoulders agntDSt his knee turning from living flesh to lifeless clay. Whered It get him? busked the gloomy man. "I dont know, sold Eudle dully. What difference does It male?" He got to bis feet and looked to see No one. who bad noticed the affair Stray bullets had beeo finding their way Into that place for sume time. A man would drop suddenly, shot through the head, or one would :ry out, or yet another would hurl himself Into the mud and llo kicking like a horse. The garrison hnd watched these casualties with horror and like pussengers on a ship's deck, who watch the waves, the longer they looked, the sicker U mode them. Eudle went to the bush under which he hnd tucked his overcoat, und bring ing It buck, he spreud It over Jake His pistol, empty though It was, he belted on. Every one, he noticed, was doing something. The man who sits and waits for death to come and take him Is the one who gets the horrors and runs shrieking from a shadow, so these men kept their mluds from their Durkness wus situation by work. coming on and another attack was Imminent. The lack of shell tire and of gas showed that the Gerinuns had forces In the Inuuedlute neighborhood, who would likewise suffer from the gas and among whom the shells might full. They ve got a machine gun going on us," said Eadie to the gloomy man and It's close at hand." The other made no reply, hut drew his gas mask stupidly from the carrier and. turning It In hts hands, re Do you know any plueed It aguln. thing about machine guns? demanded Eadie again "No," said the gloomy man. "I alat If you want to much of a soldier. know anything about the milk bust ness I could tell you. I use to he the smartest driver they hud. It's ftinn.v the people that would put out tneii bottles dirty, though. Old man Thom as. t not owned the pulp mill and Ihw Jupson. "Sit down "Steady I said Eadie. now and d n't think about unytldng Here, come dovvu the road a ways There now, sit down und clean yout rltle. Suppose the general cume along and wanted to Inspect It?" Eadie left the gloomy man fumbling at the breech cover of Ids rltle und walked Toot lad farther along the road he muttered, "hell begin deliverin milk to these doughboys lu a few more minutes. Hey, there, lied (Toss, you see that bateheaded bird down there Keep taking off his breech cover? your eye on him; I think hes started off Ids conk. That so? said the medical corps I'll Just amide down there. man. What we need now to make this picnic a success Is a couple of shell shockers runnlu' hermantlle up and down this ditch." "Have you seen any grenades around here by any chance?" asked Eadie. "Sure," said the other, "that hint with the shirt full of bullets on has got some." There was a man sitting under the bunk who had on a 8ecles of Jerkin the front covered with pockets foi holding ammunition and the bottom divided into pockets for Holding Judes. Eadie requested and received an'" C. g Understand Now That Sun Radiates Health Two architects at Baris have built a house of which any room tnay have sunshine at any moment of the day. provided the sun Is shining. It turns on a pivot like a rullroad turntable. A finger on the electric button Is all that Is needed. This may not Initiate a new style of It architecture, or would be a little expensive for the average householder; he will content himself with moving his sitting or (lining room to It. But the house II lust rates and emphasizes the new de rot Ion to the sun. Our doctors und scientists have Just found out new and exceedingly valu able therapeutic qualities In the suns rays rays that strike the skin with out any Intervening medium. It Is nntures oldest and finest remedy, con stnntly used and relied upon by the lower animals but long misunderstood and unappreciated by the high aniWe have always talked mal, man. of the benefits of life, but we did not realize our dependence on and debt to those healing and vttnliz Ing nly8 direct from tne source of all life on our planet. We are still discovering gold nndet our feet. Pathfinder Magazine. house-buildin- Pretty Soft Explorers have found a tribe of half civilized natives in the wilds ot Caucasian the Asiatic mountains called maiden people by neighboring tribes because they are ruled by worn en," reports Cappers Weekly. "The women of the tribe appear to have carried feminism beyond the dreams of civilized modern women, but not to the disadvantage of the men for the women do all the work of the men and the woman who provides the most luxuries for her husband and sons Is most respected. All the men have to do Is eat the food set before them sleep, fish and smoke pipes which their women fill and light for them Lord's Day Sunday, the first day of the week at the time of the Apostle taul, was celebrated as the day of Besurrectlon the Lord's day as distinguished from Saturday, the aeveuth day. cele Prated by the Hebrews as the true Sabbath. It became the 1hrlstlun Sabbath and day of rest several centuries later, according to an answered question in Liberty. stone-howle- d Light's Long Journey I The light of the North star reaches Um aarJt in about 300 years. gun, and then he proceeded to deal ' ont the bole. The two Germana be shoved over the bank. One of them was alive, but Eadie bad other things to do than to take care of wounded Germans, it was getting dark rapidly and the main to Inspect the gun while be thing w-still had light A hasty glance showed him eight or ten boxes of ammunl tion. a half dozen stick grenades, and an overcoat In the bole. Then be turned to the gun. Eadie bud fired one of these one day with Ham and the machine gunners. All be bad to do was to take bold of the handles, push off the safety catch, and push on the corrugated thumb piece. A glance showed him that there was half a belt of ammunition still left When that was gone, be would see about reloading. Suddenly, with a long hiss, a flare went up from the gulch and burst almost over Eadies bead, burning with a ghastly green light He was wondering what tt meant when, with the roar and crash of a heavy surg on rocks, a box barrage was laid down just behind Eadie, on the eastera side of the hilt and(on the line of hedge that marked the cart path. The bursts were not near Eadie, but bunks of steel began to buzz and sing, and so he kept low in the bole. That barrage meant an attack and Eadie meant to be ready for It He put his elbows on the pads of the support as Ham had showed him. gripped the handles and waited. The enemy came suddenly out of the gulch. In two columns, tearing across the field. The hedge crackled with rifle fire, even as the barrage swung out Into the eastern side of the hilt The gun leaped under Eadle's bunds as he pressed the thumb piece. Ah, what a glorious sound It made! What was that? Some one had cried out Again that cry, audible even above the clacking of the gun and the rumble of the barrage. By G d, the wounded Jerry I Theyre cornin up the road I He leaped to his feet and looked over the bank. A dark river of men was rustling along there and the wounded German that Eadie had rolled out of the hole was calling to Ids comrades for help. The German machine gun could not be trained Into the road, Eadles first frantic effort showed him that What then? Prop np the rear end? No. Get It out of the hole and onto the slope? Good. Eadie seized the front end of the support swung It out of the bole, grabbed the back end and swung that, then cleared the ammunition belt He worked fast, for seconds counted. A quick glance showed him that he could now fire Into the far end of the road, but that If the Germans fell back and attacked him from directly below be was lost He flung himself down, placed his elbows, seized the handle and opened fire' It was hard work, for the gun leaped and wriggled, and being poorly placed. He It was doubly hard to control. on to breach the keep kept shoving np his fire low, and had the satisfaction of seeing the dark mass below him buckle, bend, thin out and finally disappear, leaving only the scattered wreckage of its dead behind. There was a thin cheer from the far end of the road. "Ah, boy, remarked Eadie to himWhat it takes to be a machine self. He decidgunner I got In clusters! ed that Just to the left of the old position of the machine gun there was a place where he could not only cover the field across the road, bnt also the slope where the road dropped Into the gulch. Any more attacks that came up the road from the gnlch cnnld then he broken np before the enemy got ' np the hill. In the remaining light he could see men crawling In the opposite field, the steady flash of rifle fire from behind the hedge, and the great black shape of an airplane that ducked and swooped and circled over the line of hedge. The barrage had stopped, except the shells that were bursting between the road and the American lines to the south. Again Eadie seized the handles of the support and. dragging the gun behind him. he got it to the new position and swung It again toward the enemy. A new attack had Just swept out of the gulch and an airplane, to aid It. was flying low and raining down bullets upon fhe Americans, the tracers glinting like sparks from a Eadie could hear Roman candle. voices calling, the American fire seemed to lessen, there vas a thin volpiping, and the ragged crash of a ley. The airplane Jumped as does a wild fowl that receives a charge of shot, then climbing, turned suddenly sideways and fell swiftly to earth. The gulp and roar of an exCrash plosion, and the wreckage was In flames. "Lets go !" cried Eadie. Beyond the tinrhes of the burning plane he could see a wave of men coming up the east face of the hill and on that wave ne swung his gun. It rattled for several seconds. Silence. Eadie pounded the hreecb to free the Jam, and pressed harder upon the thumb piece. Then he looked closely at the breech. The ammunition belt had run through. He "That's simple," he muttered. trawled, over to the hole, gathered up three boxes of ammunition, and tjien returned. The plane blazed now, a pillar of fire from wings to tuil und by Its light Eadie could see that there wus still anotner belt In the box by the gun. He seized the end of this and Inserted it In the breevo. The tongue went through eusily and the first bullet clicked Into the clutm tier. 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