Evening Star Newspaper, June 25, 1930, Page 19

In the trenches there was silence &gain. | The sheiling and nervous, un- ensy bursts of rifie fire had dled awa: uses| in the usual desultory firing own! as the “morning hate” In ' every man’s face there was a tense look. iSometimes it was difficult to| Srguse \men to satisfactory alertness | duing the “stand-to”; today it seemed | 8s though they were all on tiptoe.| lked of the lull - before the | was a hackneyell sort of ut one which kept recurring | ind this morning. ot 30 cold as it had been, and mist was rising. As soon as n his round of the trenches, | warmed up, and his headache lessened. | He resolutely refused to think of that ile business last night, of that lonely, nvivial dinner with Hibbert and old Trotter. But at every traverse he expectied to meet Osborne—tall, gray haired, rious, and quiet, but always ATt and understanding. It wasn't ible to think of him lying dead | r the German parapet, and yet it | as also not possible to avoid thinking im. His body could not be seen [ when Very lights went up. Per- the Germans had taken him in bury him. Perhaps he had not been | killed after all—no, there was no hope in that direction, for Corpl. Crooks had seen the damage the grenade had done to him. Perhaps his useless, empty body had slid down into some shejl hole to decay with all the other cor- ruption and filth of No Man'’s Land. God! how could one be expected to| keep sane out here? He walked a few yards down a communication trench, | and took a long drink of whisky| from his pocket flask. Raleigh's platoon was as smart as »@any. The firing platform had been re- paired after the devastation left by | rdy's company, and the trench was ntly clean. ~Stanhope felt an ab- d warm feeling that Barford fellows d not let one down. Hibbert’s men, on the other hand, looked cowed and sullen, for they knew they had no leader in the event of an attack. Sergt. Rusholme had done his best with Osborne’s section, but Osborne had bout his business that | zed his value to the full until his death. In Trotter's sector, on the other hand, there was a general atmosphere of cheerfulness. Somehow this news that he had been made sec- | ond in command had reached the men, | and they were almost as proud about | 1t as if they had been promoted them- selves. It was odd, thought Stanhdpe, ?\: wide a fleld of influence each er had. Odd, and a little pathetic, r what could a young fellow straight ' out from school—a fellow like Jimmy Raleigh, for example—do against metal that hurtled through the air with the 'd of an express train? The whole ing was s0 damned unfair—men against machines, liquid fire, poison gas. And all these men, with childlike sim- plicity, looked to their officer, their sergeant, or to one of themselves, to give them the example how to die. There ‘was heroism, all right, but what was the good of herolsm in a slaughter e? Damn this waiting about! Why didn't the attack begin? Along the trench Raleigh stood gazing | into No Man's Land with a permrx It was ali fantastic and weird. whole sky was turning pale gray. an he wished Dennis were with him so| that they could remember together a | 'k end at Freshwater, in the Isle of ght, when they had gone out before wn with & local fisherman to pull up the lobster-pots. They'd thought that an -adventure. What kids they must have been! There had been excitement and adventure about yesterda: it only it hadn't been for the business about Osborne. Dodging No Ma Land with his clear objective { one German prisoner, he had felt like a kid at school playing “French and English.” But this waiting about was beastly. Osborne had said some- thing about war being always waiting for something to happen until it did happen, and then starting to wait again. What ‘a topping schoolmaster Osborne must have made. He under- stood 50 well what a fellow was think- ing, that there wasn't any need to _try | | and explain things. Surely the Ger- mans couldn't be going to attack now. If Dennis wasn't such a keen officer he'd have let the men stand down ever 80 _long ago. Buddenly, without bombardment be; pressed themse] n. @s hard as they could against the cold, damp sandbags | of the parapet. Each quarter of an inch of protection became so valuable. It was terrifying, and yet thrilling. It did not seem credible that anything made by man could produce such an infernal noise. The dawn was put to shame by the Very lights that went | up from ‘the British trenches, | shells that were fired from man guns. In a few seconds the British artillery began to reply, and the air was filled with strange, mysterious whistlings of flying pleces of hot metal. ‘Then men crouched lower and lower, pressed themselves tighter and tighter against the parapet. Down the trench came that ominous cry foy “Stretcher- [ bearers.” Stanhope, hurrying along the front line to urge the men to keep a sharp lookout for any movement, in the - man trenches met the sergeant major. “Who's hit?” he shouted. “Corpl. Ross, sir,” the sergenat major told him. “Minnie dropped in the trench at the corner. What about casualties, sir? The shelling's pretty thick over Lancer's Alley.” “No, we can't get them down there. And it’s just as bad over the Fosse way. Better not try, then. Take any one badly hit down into the big dugout on the right. Let the stretcher-bearers do what they can there.” “Very good, sir.” And the sergeant major bustled off with his orders, while Stanhope went on his way to see how Trotter and his men were faring on the extreme left. In one place a shell had blown a hole in the parapet, and he stood ne oda = MOTOR OIL "BEST OIL IN THE WORLD" Good oil, as you know, is the life-blood of a motor. Poor oil is its death-warrant. 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