Evening Star Newspaper, June 5, 1930, Page 30

o (Continued From Yesterday's Star.) . Hardy made some excuse about hav- to get down with the company. ‘Then he gave it up and grinned in| his disarming way. “I don't specially want to see him,” he admitted. ‘“He's so fussy about the trenches, and 1 expect they are rather dirty. He’ll be on at me for hours if he catches me. Here's a list of trench stores if you really feel you've not done your duty of ‘taking over’ properly. ‘There's 115 rifle grenades—I shouldn’t use them if I were you: they're pretty | rusty. 'I;‘l:,fl thg.res 500 Mills bombs, Thxts 17 pairs.” “Oh, no; 25 right leg and 9 left leg. But everything's down here. I didn't| check it when I took over, but I think | the urgnnt major did, so it's quite | all right. “I don’t wonder you dont want to see Stanhope,” commented Osborne | grimly, as he accepted the tattered list | of trench stores, with its stains of | cocoa and candle grease. Why couldn't one (fl angry with Hardy? he asked himself. “By the way, how is the dear boy?” tnquired Hardy when Stanhope's name was mentioned. “Drinking like a fish as usual?” Perhaps one could get angsy With Hardy. What the deuce did he mean, | untidy creature that he was, criticizing | a fellow like Stanhope? “Why do you say that?” he asked quietly. | “Well, damn it, it's just the natural thing fo say about Stanhope.” He Tooked curiously at Osborne, and chang- ed his tone. The slight bitterness which always gave an edge to his voice when he referred to Stanhope—who, despite his drink, was so damned capable—disappeared for a moment. “Poor old man! It must be pretty rotten for you, being his second in | command, and you such a quiet, sober, old thing.” | “When I want your sympathy, TIl ask for it.” said the other, with un- | usual asperity. “He's a long way the | best company commander we've got.” | “Oh, he's & good chap, I know. But 1 never did see a youngster put away the whisky he does. The last time n} Jere out Testing at Valennes he came | o supper with us, and drank a whole | bottle in 1 hour 14 minutes—we timed him.” Osborne made_a gesture of disgust. What did these fellows know of Stan- | hope? There was that time up in the Salient, when the company had been | gassed to blazes near Hill 60, and | Stanhope was laid out with trench fever. The men were nervous, and | grumbling because, as soon as they | reached Dickebusch Huts for a rest, a| new order came for them to go back | to the trenches. The docwr had ordered Stanhope to go down to hos- pital, but when the men fell in to move off up to the line again, there was Stanhope on his horse, determined to with them, For nearly‘three years Efiglfl stuck it—from 18 to 21—and other fellows, who came and went in the space of & few months or so, filled him with drink in order to make fun of him. Osborne turned upon 24 mgflly all thought it , l“Prfla smusing to cheer mm on, encourage to drink more. Just because he’s stuck it until his nerves have got bat- tered to bits, he's called a drunkard! And you make a joke of it!" “Oh, here, I say!” protested Hardy. “Don't take it like that. Don't get He's not & drunkard; ‘just a— rinker. ou can't help somehow admiring a fellow who can get h s bottle like that, and then pick out his own hat gll by him- self and.walk home. Of course, you're you have to put him to bed when he gets there.” . “Don't be an ass. That's got nothing to do with it. There isn't a man to touch him as & commander of men. command the battalion ~one 1" interrupted Hardy, with a | h. Osborne had recovered his normal ealm. wasn't any good arguing with & chap like Hardy. “You don't know him as I ¢o,” he said quietly. “I love that fellow. I'd go to hell with him.” “Oh, you &weet, sentimental .old . Pinish handing over, and stop blithering.” | Hardy remembered that his company must by now be out of the front line, end that Stanhope might be coming down to the dugout at any moment. “There's nothing else to do.” he asserted, and hitched his pack over his shoulders. | ““What about the log book?” “God! you are a worker, Oh, well, here we are.” He discovered a tattered little book | on the table benath his gas satchel and his map case. | “Here we are. Written right up to | date: ‘5 pm. to 8 pm. All quiet. | German airman flew over the trenches. Shot a rat!'” ot the rat, you ass. Well, P=e2> JWASH o | off. " Cheero! finish up, your whisky; I want to pack my mug. He hlu‘hed on his different belongings until he looked like a traveling peddler. As he leant over the table to light a cigarette at the candle, he gave an exclamation of surprise. “Well, I'm damned! Still at it!” “What 1s? Still at what?” “Why, that earwig. It's ‘been run- ning round and round that candle ever sl?lcp tea time. Must have done a mile.” “I shouldn't hang about here-if I Were an earwig. Nor should I! T'd go home. Still, e useful little beasts for racing. E\'rr tried 1t? You each have an ear- wig and start 'em up in a line, dig 'em in the ribs, and then steer the little blighters with matches across the table. I won 10 francs last night. Had a splendid little fellow. I'll tell you the secret if you'll swear not to let it out?” “I swear.” “Well, if you want to get the best pace out of an earwig, dip it in whisky —makes 'em go like hell! Now I'll be And don't forget the big iss that,” attack.” “Oh, Lord, no. T must: Osborne agreed gravely. 11 make a note of it in my diary. Cheero!” ‘While Hardy went up the dugout steps, singing a music hall song to himself, Osborne settled down at the table and began to study the map. Stanhope ought to come down and get some food, he reflected. The men must have all moved in long ago, and he'd have enough time in the trench without pottering about there when he might have been resting for once. Still, the last thing Stanhope could stand was | the feeling that he was being nursed and looked after: the only thing to do was to wait until he turned up. In the front line Stanhope had found a quiet corner, where he stood staring over the parapet. There was very little firing, and most of the few bullets that passed were flying high, so that they would end their career harmlessly, in the mud, unless some astonished trans- port man, & long way behind the line, happened to get into the way of one of them. It was odd to think of the millions of cartridges, each one so care- fully fashioned from ores which people could spare so ill, brought over so many. miles of railway, carried up with such | sweat and toil to the front line, to end by burying themselves deep in the earth. Some day peasants, plowing | their fields again, would come across these shapeless, rusted scraps of metal, and, recognizing them as rifle bullets, would throw the useless things on the scrap heap, and tramp on heavily up the furrow, turning over sqil enriched by blood. Corn would ‘grow where trenches had been, would be ground into flour, kneaded into dough, and | children would eat bread that had come from the, corpses of their fathers. Some day these two long lines of rival armies would disappear, and only stu- dents, poring over military manuals or history books, would remember whether such and such a village had been in allied or German hands, such and such a cathedral had been, destroyed by allied or German shells and bombs. ‘There was hardly a sound to be heard, and the occasional trench flares shone on :an empty, desolate strip of No Man’s Land, which was so churned up that it looked like a sea that had grown muddier and muddier until it had become too stiff to move. So quiet that he could hear his wrist watch ticking, and yet one knew that thou- sands of guns were hidden close at hand, all ready cleaned and oiled; millions of bullets lying in pouches; thousands of soldiers—British, French, Belgian, German—waiting, !hinklnl. wondering. And somewhere, miles be- hind the lines, generals, studying maps p{nned on the walls of chateaux draw- ing rooms, moved little flags here and there, and tried to outwit each other. Communiques which minimized their own losses, and exaggerated their own Successes, were tapped out over fleld | telephones or carried by dispatch riders slithering across the country on their motor bicycles, and in due course were used to keep up the nation's morale, to fill the people with an ever-greater readiness to be sacrificed, to prove that the enemy were cowlrdly. or despairing, or treacherous. How could any human being bear all this burden of l’!‘lDOn- sibility? How could they manage avold thinking, and yet, if they flld ink, how could they remain sane? A timid voice interrupted the. train of Stanhope's reflections. “Beg pardon, sir,” it said. Stanhope looked round at the sergelnt who stood below him in the trench. “Yes, what is it?” he asked. “Oh, nothing, sir. It’s only I thought you was going to sleep up there with your ‘ead on the parapet. The men does sometimes, and it ain't very ‘ealthy. So I took the liberty—" “That’s all right, sergeant. I suppose there are better pillows. Besides, 1 ought to get a move on, anyhow. ‘Thanks.” And Stanhope wenmt along the trench to fetch Trotter down to supper. (Continued in Tomorrow's Star.) —Gives You Miles of Wearability Were there a yardstick to measure service...you would find Landers Washade gives you “miles” of wearability. Lasting beauty ...sunfast and washable, this famous shade fabric comes in ail smart colors. shade order. Call us. 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