Evening Star Newspaper, June 6, 1930, Page 34

f,.(Continued From Yesterday's Star.) CHAPTER XIIL. HE train was late in starting. It was long past schedule time be- i fore a very old and fussy engine came to link ftself to the coaches Rngine time before it had regained its Preath and taken the strain of its load. From his corner Raleigh searched for hours for shellholes and ruins among the thin woods .and fields of stubble grass. But he saw no mark upon this | peaceful countryside. The March evening had long since turned to night | before the fringe of the war zone was Feached. | Peering out into the darkness, he | gancied now and then that he saw buildings strangely distorted and broken, | and once he caught a fleeting glimpse | of a deep, black hole beside a twisting | Btream. For a long time he dozed: it must | have been near midnight when he sud- | denly became fully awake. The train had stopped, and men were walking up d down outside with lanterns—talk- and calling to each other. Cold and sleepy, Raleigh collected his kit and elimbed down on to the platform with #he rest of the passengers. Here, at las', with a vengeance, was the war. No need to search and im- Bgine any longer. Pale ruins jagged e dark sky on every side. With a little group of other newcomers, he was led down a street where here and there ound swellings rose—shell holes filled th new earth, which seemed to have pwollen over unhealed wounds; there fwere rows of houses like jaws of broken | th, He was shown into a hut of cor- ated iron, and his valise was spread t by a strange soldier who passed he time of day and disappeared. He Jay in the darkness awhile before he Ept. Never had he known a stillness intense as in this broken town. He used to quietness, but at home re had always been some faint rustle 4n the trees, or a distant sound from the road. Only once the wind stirred, d with it seemed to come a far-away, easy murmur like distant thunder. Yhere came to him another time when e had heard that sound—standing one mmer evening on the crest of Hang- nn.n'l Hill, with a group of awed, cited boys. Next afternoon a rusty, discordant tor lorry bounced along with Raleigh d two other officers who were bound | Sor the same battalion. At twilight | $hey ran through a valley into a strag- gling village of cottages and farms. The lorry driver pulled up, peered ng the deserted street, and turned to passengers. “Looks as if they've e,” he said. He clambered from his seat and let ghe tallboard of the lorry down. “I uld see the qulfl:muwr lllnl was transport can't ‘ave lef yet. at's ‘is place, over there.” Jackson, who had been with the bat- falion before and was mow returning | m_sick leave, took the lead, and | ocked at the quartermaster's door with his stick. A stout, cheerful officer a beamed, and said: “Ha-hah! 've B.en expecting you. You're just too te—~the battalion moved off an hour pgo. Still, you can go along with the gransport. Come in. Just time for a cup of tea.” He led the way into a dilapidated ttle room, where a cheerful fire was ing in a brazier, such as night tchmen have in city streets, and soon e three hungry arrivals were washing ywn slabs of buttered toast with het, Jpweet tea. The quartermaster was a who got things done; he ordered officer’s valises to be brought into adjoining room, advised Jimmy and other arrival who had not been out and helped Even then it took the | | can bring your blood fore as to what they would require, N of WILSON TRIPS or night the historic Potomae past M. any day Moonlight Dances Dance on the river in the moonlight! There’'s romance for you! Down the historie Potomae,lightsglowing, Happy ‘Walker’s orchestra moonlit waters rippling. night but Tuesday, the “City of Washington” makes the moon- light trip. For those not danc- ingthere are auditorium ortho- phonic eoncerts and there are lenty of comfortable chairs Bor everybody. Take this trip often this summer. Datly (Bxcept Tussduy) 30 P.M. . Waekdays—78e Sundays & Holidays~81.00 Chapel Point One of the most interesti; D e (s thetonid. Dows them to stuff their packs with all that was necessary. “You want your washing and shaving kit, of course—and a blanket and a ground sheet—a change of underclothes —specially socks—and some spare boots.” A sergeant arrived to report the ration limbers ready to move off. They all put on their mackintoshes, slung on their packs, and went with the quarter- master into the street. Some mule- drawn limbers and hand carts were standing in readiness. “It's not a long trek, really,” said the quartermaster, as he clambered on to his horse. “Dump your packs on that limber and follow along behind.” ‘They followed the convoy out of the valley and along a straight road be- tween dark flelds. They passed a blfi roofless chateau, standing behind tal railings in a garden of dank, coarse grass and ragged trees. Gradually the | road grew rougher, until it became no more than a cart track over what seemed a vast, flat plain. Sometimes the track bridged deep trenches, or wound by narrow avenues through belts of rusty wire. They halted in the shelter of a wood, and a party of :aen rose from the shadows to help unload the limbers. In a few minutes the whole convoy left the empty limbers and filed on foot along a twisting duckboard walk—each man with two sacks slung over his shoulder, At first the very lights had been a faint, luminous foam above the horizon; | now, as they drew nearer, it was pos- pos sible to see each light distinctly as it rose and fell quietly in its graceful curve. Occasionally a gun barked from its_hidden lair. They came to a road, and followed it until it sank into a cutting. Quite sud- denly they turned into a narrow lane, hewn in the side of the steep bank, and Raleigh realized, with a slight thrill, that he was walking in a trench—his first real trench. It seemed that they turned and twisted for miles in this sunken passage, with the rough earth walls beside them, and a little fringe of coarse grass en- o over the top. Once they passed a huge, gaunt skelton that might in the old days have factory, and for a little way the trench ran s0 close to its broken walls that the foundations were laid bare. A lit- tle farther on they Ylussed through 2 jungle of undergrowth which almost met overhead, and roots stuck out of |the trench walls like skinny hands. Sometimes a machine gun tapped out in the distance—or a rifle cracked. “fter a while they came to signs of habitation. Dark holes ozned from Blood Pressure ‘When dizzy spells, headache, short- ness of breath warn you that you have High Blood Pressure, don't begin to worry, worry increases the dangers of High Blood Pressure. Be sensible. You pressure under control if you take the right treatment in time. 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Sometimes they stopped to rest awhile, dropped their packs in the trench, and sat on them until the order came to move, Raleigh began to think no end would ever come, when suddenly they reached a deep, open space where aseveral trenches met. A voice came out of the night: “Corporal, take these officers to bat- talion headquarters.” “Yes, sir.” A dark figure peered at them, and said, “Will you come along, please.” Raleigh fell in behind, and followed along a trench until a corporal halted before a sand-bagged by-lane, labeled, “To Batt. HQ." The lane ended ab: ruptly before a curtained doorway, through which the corporal disappeared. | As they waited, a soldier in shirt sleeves emerged through the curtain with two empty soup plates in his hands, glanced at them, and disap- peared into a hole. A bullet passed like a whip-crack overhead. In a few moments the corporal reap- peared and ushered them «mough the curtain, They stood in a square, timbered place where some officers were seated at dinner. “Good evening,” said a little gray- haired man at the farther end of the table. “I hoped you'd arrive in time to have come in with us. Never mind, though.” He produced a small note book and turned the pages. “You've been with the battalion before, haven't you?” he said to Jackson. “Before my time, though.” Jackson explained that he had been with “A” Company, and would like, if possible, to return to i “That’s all right,” “They want another officer. Mr. Dawes, you report to Capt. Marlow of “B' Company—and Mr. Raleigh, report to Capt. Stanhope, of ‘C’' Company.” The colonel jotted the names in his book, and turned to an officer bv his side: “Go and get runners to take these gentlemen to their companies.” It may have been the sudden close- ness of the little dugout after the crisp night air, or the darkness and the curious quietness of it all, that gave Raleigh a sudden, odd sense of un- reality. The colonel's words came as if from a figure in a dream—“Capt. Stan- hope, of ‘C’ Company.” (Continued in Tomorrow's Star.) t. said the colonel. | HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS WIN MEDALS AT LA PLATA Annual Public Speaking Competi- tions Results Are An- nounced. Bpecial Dispatch to The Star. LA PLATA, Md, June 6.—The elocu- tion-declamation contest of La Plata High School was held Monday night in the school auditorium. It marked the opening of commencement week exer- cises, Four girls contested in elocution for a gold medal donated annually by R. | H. Halley of La Plata. The declamation | contest was for a gold medal given | annually by Chief Judge W. Mitchell Digges. The elocution medal was won by Miss | Olga Swann. The declamation medal | was awarded to Lawrence Lynch. The other contestants were Jane Wilson, | Lewis Mitchell, Virginia Cooksey, Betty Stone, Mitchell Digges and Edward { Turner. ‘The judges were Forrest D. Blunt, principal of Marlboro High 8chool; Perry O. Wilkinson and Miss Josephine E. Wilson, both of the faculty of Marl- boro High School. Toscanini Ends Tour. LONDON, June 6 (#).—A triumphal concert in Queen’s Hall Wednesday and a reception at the Carlton Holte ended the European tour of Arturo Toscanini and his New York Philharmonic Or- chestra. At the reception Toscanini was pre- sented a bronze plaque by the concert master on behalf of the members of the orchestra. 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