Show OzEl Ort o of No Nolan's Nolans Mans Man's ans an's s LandBy Land By HARRY IRVING G GREENE l ether I Tills wonderful t I 1 am am writIng writ writ- Ill Ing ln you yuu-a yuu a miracle lett letter r. r 1 I was hurt bad badly I but 1 am going to get well It happened like this you this you ou know I 1 amnot am not mit allowed to n name me place or date No Mans Man's Land t I We were r raiding It by night three of us scouting us scouting prowling It was as dark as the dungeons dun goons geons of Inferno but often otten they sent up signal shells shells roseate roseate bursting things that bathed all that evil landIn land in a n red blood light When their glare flared over us we wc had to stand as we were caught hand or foot upraised upraised- no eless objects In the red glow until the light snuffed out and all aU was dark clark Once oi more We reached the German entangle entangle- entanglements 1 ments and began cutting them with our oiled clippers We were careful very careful but we were not careful enough They heard us Oyer Ove came two bombs hombs i The he three of us went down in a r row w. w Jack and Tom never knew what hit them I r wa was hurt t too o badly to be able to get up I lay there all night groaning night groaning calling for help Twenty feet away away tl I could hear the boches in their trench laughing at me cursing me Morning I My Iy last I could endure It n no more more I was dying dying bleeding bleeding Isaid I Isaid Isaid said my last prayer And t then enl Since ince the dawn of time I 1 do not believe believe belleve be be- lieve the world has tins seen a a amore more glorious glori giori- ous ous II thing From the hill tops our artiller ar ar- artillery tillery tiller laid down a It box barrage fire re ami nuel under It t heads raised like emperors emperors em em- and arid sl shoulders squared came six men fuen stretcher stetcher bearers As though they had Imd been been heen heenon on parade they e came me forth In broad daylight into the very tell teeth r of the enemy and picked up what was left of Jack Tom and me A As though we had bad been their own brothers the they bore us s back swiftly gently Then do you know know what those Huns did Opened fire on Qs the ys the dead the bearers of the dead and anda a man man who lay quivering at the the of death Two of the six six bearers went down The other four brought them back back along with what w was s left of Jack Tom om and me rne And when I awoke In the hospital after the operation deathly sick but back from the nightmare-land nightmare and I with the sunlight upon me whom doy do y you u think I saw saw bending over me the reel red cross cros upon her sleeve babbling laughing crying kissing me JANE JANEl And I 1 had never never known kno that Hlat she ha had come over overt I Had Haci never nevert gt t her letter And And ve ive we are here beze together a and I am aro going to get well An hour ago sh shMId she MId out her ber hand band one finger was still the little ring I 1 gave her before before be be- fore I left I 1 am going to have a a stone ston set In It you It-you you knoW what that me means meant nb Tho Though gh somewhat t disfigured I am still In tic ring And Ami so ISO Is Jane JIM |