Evening Star Newspaper, June 14, 1930, Page 21

| REAL ESTATE. "HE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., SATURDAY, JUNE 14, 1930. REAL ESTATE. i B—5 he went on with sudden seriousness, | where, and sit and read under trees.” :;r.e'.'&b,Ag? :h; ‘?ermlnl were only the | “I suppose it doesn't” “What a foul smell of bscon,” he | soft leathey case—these marked him i‘? “doesn't he look M2 “Tt must be," agreed Raleigh. eadt r fleld away. ,,| . But he looked at Osborne with a new | commented. from all the thousands of other u‘*u “I'm afraid he's not Well” After those tragic, blackened stumps It's funny to think of it like that,” | respect. The schoolmaster part of it| “Yes, we've got bacon for breakfast.” | ciad officers, helped him to retain his Raleigh's feeling of well-being, fol- | to the right of the trenches, it seemed | mused Raleigh. was rather depressing, and it made one | “And the smell of it for the whole | individuality, and, with it, his se- Renig o 1o ARore. Seh S et |akmest donaetie: 1o Bulov Uhp Teel 1 always measure distances like that| want to say “sir” again; but Osborne | day. Where's Raleigh? Have you told | respect. By the wavering light of a drink, suddenly vanished. The fact |trees, with leaves and branches, still | out: here. Keeps them &q proportion.” | must have been a jolly good sort of | him about rifle inspection?” | candle he began to write his first letjer that he had got through his first night | existed. The splintered stumps had once “gfld you play Rugger? schoolmaster to play Rugger for the| “In there. No, I didn't say anything | home. in the line without incident ceased to|formed a little larch wood, and, some- es. But mostly refing at school | Harlequins. - And at the same time it | about it.” | _ Stanhope. rejecting Mason’s offer bf give him satisfaction; for there was | where, other larch trees would soon be | in the last few years. was very flattering to think that he| Raleigh heard his name called, and | bacon—even bacon with a decent pro- j 5 ¥ 5 S - fresh, feathery green and Why, are you a schoolmaster then?” | knew, while the others—even Dennis | returned to the main dugout. portion of lean %o it—sat stirring his corvaren 1930 ov rreoccn & swcts commmey still the mystery of Dennis, and the | covered with fresh, fei ¥ Osborne laughed at the other's look | Stanhope—did not. i “You inspect your platoon’s rifles at tea pensively. e d il misery of finding him like that after the wood pigeons would be building | at th a 5 A T his torn in the trenches with Trotter. | their untidy nests among their branches. | of uwnlslm]mr;t. .. 'Yes” he admitted.| volces were heard from ‘the trench |2 0'¢lock.” Stanhope told him curtly. (Continued in ‘Tomorrow's Star.) '—(Continued From Yesterday's Star.) | “Bad cooking, that's all. Any por-| He wished the other two would talk of | Dennis could say all that sort of thing | “I must apologize.” ., | mear the entrance to the dugout. Dennis /, YOU Deedn't bother if the wood's a bit - — | ridge?” something else—it seemed, somehow, | in words, but Ralelgh only repeated his | “Oh, I don't mind schoolmasters.” | was up there, and he'd be down in g Qirty: but be careful about the barre CHAPTER XIX, | Mason nodded. disloyal to hear Dennis discussed. His |short sentence with lingering emphasis. | Then, red with confusion, he stumbled | moment for his breakfast. Raleigh , 1d magazines and all the metal parts. “Lumpy, 1 suppose?” platoon sergeant had given him a pile | “Yes, 1t must be!” on. “I—T mean, I've never met one out- | stood up. “I started a letter when I| “Rrighto, Stanhope” said Raleigh C A L l F 0 R N l A MAN appeared round the| «Yes sir. Quite nice and lumpy.” | of letters and post cards to be censored,| “And how did you feel in the front | side & school. came off duty last night,” he said, 1| 8hd went back to his bed with its sag- traverse ‘and came up to| “Then take the lumps out of mine.|and he began the hateful, mean duty |line?” | “They &}g get out sometimes think I'l go and finish it now. | ging wire netting. At the side of it a Raleigh. Jse 'em for dumplings next time we | of reading them to make sure they con- | “Oh, all right. But it's funny to think | Who did you play for? “Come and write it in here,” Osborne | /80K balanced on two ammunition B U N G A L 0 w s “Please, sir, the captain told | ‘ave boiled beef.” veyed no military information. What-|of the Germans being so close. Only | .Ihe Harlequins urged in his friendly w qee DoRe | boxes made & _serviceable table, and me to say ‘stand down.' Shall| “And just bring you the gravy, sir? |ever precautions were taken, the|about 70 yards, isn't it?” wxi:];mr):,,',’;'fi’-‘"m through his teeth. | cpeery » S, S S L L S b ofit I pass the word along?” | very good, sir.” civilians in the back villages knew far| 1 a 1 front line? Yes, |1 say, really! sy wooden _struts e walls, which i) Raleigh nodded. In the space of a | Toolier ‘stated after ihe vétreatiog s ] sl iy troops, ’o(x.bof,'{"{?"‘é‘riaéifi“:r a Rugger field.” | I played for the English team on one| “It's all ‘right, thanks. I'm quite | Trotter had helped to rig up for him G w c H A s E . few moments the whole trench Was|servant, wondering whether he ought| the likelthood of attacks, than amy’ In. |~ The menie Rugser field ‘at Barford | €reat occasion. : comfortable in there. I've rigged up a | when they came off duty the night be- . . with men chopping wood, kindling | not to get angry. fantryman, , but the farce had 1o be|had beea away to the right, near the Whey! For England!” sort of little table beside my bed.” | fore. ‘This little corner of the dugout, || 41e Ced fires, cleaning rifles with oily pieces of “He's not a bad cook,” put in Osborne | kept up. Raleigh waded through the | row of elm trees. Along one side of it 1 was awfully lucky to get the He disappeared as Stanhope, fresh | with its sweating, clammy walls, was edar St. rag. and washing themselves in buckets. | soothingly. ill-spelt, pathetic letters, trying con- |ran two rows of benches for the masters | chance. It's a long time ago now.” ;lmm the March sunlight outside. groped | his. The book case, the table, his three (| . 13th & Rittenh N.W. From the entrance to each dugout there ~No " agreed Trotter. “Not so bad.| scientiously to ‘udge their possible value |and their families, and the monitors. But how simply topping! I—I never d“* way down the steps into the dark | books, his chocolate, his peppermint ample, 13¢ ttenhouse N.W. issued a strong .mell of cooking which, Better than a bloke we 'ad when I was| to the enemy, and to forget the sight of | The smaller boys crowded the ropes |Tealized you'd played for England.” ugout. creams, his block of writing paper in its unpleasant in itself, mercifully drowned | in the ranks. Used to be a plumber| Dennis the night before, sitting on his | along the other side of the field, some | _Osborne smiled to himself, and the the sickening odors of dirt and dried | pefore the war. You ought to 'ave seen | bed drinking whisky. 70 yards away, and yelled enthusias- | fine little wrinkles appeared a. the sweat. 51 oke and rats. With the help | the stew ‘e made. Thin! Thin wasn't| “After you come up to relieve us,” | tically: “Play up, Barford!” “Oh, well | corners of his eyes. “Tuppence to talk of a tin mug full of hot water, an RrmY | the word. Fill a bath with it and pull| Trotter went on with steady persistence, | Tun, Stanhope!” “Oh, offside there!” | to me now, he said. “Anyhow, don't Tazor, & good lather and a Periscope | the wius and. the whole lot would g0 | - | “Wen collared, sirt” until they were | breeze it about.” mirror, men were trving to make them- | in“," cotiple of gurgles. Lucky for us | n',’;',e",;?’._,“g‘,:‘g,’:‘,;,:":‘;u';:g“;,‘,".'L; 404 | hoarse, and almost as tired as if they | “Don't the others know? It'd make selves look respectable. Already Gra-|one day 'e set 'imself on fire making| drinking. 'E was as white as a sheet, | Dad been playing themselves. ~When | them feel jolly bucked. ham, who had once been a barber in| fhe tea. 'E went ‘ome pretty well fried | Awful & lookeq diant ot Holiginch | that little worm, Lindsey, didn't cheer | “It doesn't make much difference out Fulham, was busy with his horse clip- i h, he got scragged up and rolled | here.” Pers, cuitting ridges in the halr of & | D oyeiason get that pepper? “Did he?” said Osborne before Raleigh | {n the mud. so that Matton lost her | “No,” Raleigh agreed, trying again to corporal who was due for leave. “Good. Must ’'ave pepper. Hil ;ci';lé‘l!y:wg;}o})k :f"m};c ;t;;mo:n t:::;a‘mm with him when he came back to ' adjust his values to this new standard. “There corps,” he declared Mason!" he called. “Bacon!” sandbags. C;oudl_\- 100:150 smart your| «Coming, sir!” And Mason arrived bl st girl won't never believe you've seen | with some bacon on a tin plate—he | s - " con't 1" | % m“p;lk‘mn& !h;i!‘d?:c ;‘:r!:“hemm for | Preferred tin plates to any others be- i'w‘x’x‘ é{xrlsedtl)lx}(: gglflglrfl:)efi s‘x;:‘:m)’x‘:".\' e e S 9 't r | cause, as he put it, “they don't old the | gty Tegeiot Tiver this moming morning tea, a few men got Out Paper | spots and stumps of indelible pencils and be- | <zl " said Trotter, rubbing his hands | . He rose slowly to his feet and exhaled gan writing laborious letters home. At together. “That looks all right. Not | deeply while he buttoned up his tunic. any rate until Fritz started off with his | myuch lean about it, though.” “Lord!” he panted. “I must get me Jminnies” again, or until the British| "“If you look .straight down on it|fat down.’ Then having put on his began tempting Providence with rifle | from above, sir, you can see it quite | helmet and gasmask satchel, he mut- It be quite warm soon.” | “Yes,” agreed Trotter, “and I'll get Choice Semi-Detached Home 4117 Thirteenth Place N.E. A modern, comfortable home for your family., Amid whole- grenades or shrapnel, the war was for- | clear. tered “Cheero!” and disappeared up . . gotten. “Good Lord, yes!” agreed Trotter, | the steps. ! some, beneficial environments. And a safe- Outside the officers’ dugout Trotter, | with enthusiasm. “That's it, isn't it3*| ~Raleigh pushed his letters aside. He : : stripped to the waist, was bent nearly | “No, sir. That's a bit of rust off the | wanted to talk, but did not know how guard for their financial double over his collapsible bucket while | pan. = There it is, sir.” to begin. Things seemed so different interests. he soaped himself with that energy and inted to the speck of lean with | After his one night in the line, and thoroughness which always made is | o g which wee ob sefimiters krimy | OSborne was the only man who would face shine. He puffed and blew and | that he noticed 1t himself and rabbeq | understand. The boy took a cigarette shivered noisily, and only paused When | i¢ vigorously on the seat of his Lreeches | fFom his case and lighted it deliberately Raleigh appeared to advise him 1o tell | a¢ ‘Ko went back to his dugout to see | 10, 8ive himself countenance. | Hammond. their servant, fo bring him | what sort of & mess Hammond was| “Well” said Osborne, as though he fome water, ioo. Almost before Raleigh | making of the tonst, could reéad Ralelghs thought. “What do ;T:‘gof\??b{ml\{:mfin Tanvae. bucket, | Trotter finished his bacon, rubbed | *“Oh " all right, thanks. But I feel Pis soap box and tollet holdall. his razor | his mouth thoroughly With ‘s Iarge | Dve been here for ages. And Trotter and mug of shaving water. Ten | khaki handkerchief, and turned 10 |says we're here for six days. I just minutes later, when Mason appeared on | Raleigh with a smile. can't imagine what it's like at the end the dugout steps to announce that| . Well” he asked. “Diyer like it | of them. | breakfast was ready, Raleigh felt so| O it's all right. 1It's much better| ~.Anyhow, we've done 12 hours al- unlike the grubby, stiff, cold Raleigh of | after breakfast than before it. There's|ready. It's fine when you're relieved and an hour earlier that he forgot his | 0“,!1,’\;*3,‘5 ‘:‘;‘;}fl,‘"“_‘\fif’m: *""‘f‘l‘;‘!‘f;;;xy 80 down the line to billets, and huw} shynesms and went down to nis meal | i LN B0 it it Siang: a good bath in a brewery tub or some: Trotter, who came hard upon his'iDg up there in the dark last night hee]s.tsnlflpd appreciatively. R¥hat a there didn’t seem & thing in the world Pvely smell of bacon,” he remarked. | 8live—except the rats squeaking and stomach grumbling about that e o Ing ke R £00d Ial, TSheET | Cullet. You can bet your boots the e Boche is up to something. The big at- .,ME"_S‘;’(;,,‘:‘;“’R‘,‘G}(SE‘}“ffp"?,“,{’,:‘g."‘{,’m’:;w tack soon, I reckon. I don't lke it, smile of pleasure that some one ap- | Uncle. Pass the jam Avarlable on Most Reasonable Terms Six Rooms—Built-in Garage Charles M. Wallingford Owner & Builder 1010 Vermont Ave. t'l 2990 3215 Rittenhouse Street CHEVY CHASE, D. C. 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