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With high-power binoculars glued to bis eyes, he then turned to see If the faint brown line of Deilarme's men were going to hold or break. If it held, he might have hours In which to complete his task; if it broke, he bad only minutes.
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to watch the shroud of ehrapnel smoke billowing over the knoll, to visualize another scene In place of the collision of the squadrons, and to note the cap¬ tain's exultation over Fracasse's re¬ pulse.
"How we must have punished them!" he exclaimed to his lieuteftant. "How we must have mowed them down! Lanstron certainly knew what he was doing."
"You mean that he knew how we should mow them down?" asked Marta.
Not until she spoke did he realize that she was standing near him.
"Why, naturally! If we hadn't mowed them down his plan would have failed. Mowing them down was the only way to hold them back," he said; and seeing her horror made haste to add: "Miss Galland, now you know wbat a ghastly business war la. It will be worse here than there."
"Yes." she «aid blankly. Her color¬ less cheeks, her drooping uqderlip con¬ vinced him that now, with a little show of masculine authority, he would gain his point.
"You and your mother .must go!" he said firmly.
This was the very thing to whip her thoughts back from the knoll. He was thunderstruck at the transforma¬ tion; hot color in her cheeks, eyes aflame, lipe curving around a whirl- j wind of words.
I "You name the very reason why I wish to ptay. Why do you want to save the Women? Why shouldn't they bear their share? Why don't you want them to see men mowed down? Is It because you are ashamed of your profession?   Why, I ask? "
The problem of dealing with an angry woman breaking a shell flre of questions over his head had not been ready solved in the captain's curricu¬ lum like other professional problems, nor was It mentioned in the official instructions about the defenses of the Galland house. He aimed to smile soothin.gly in the tieiplessness of man in presence of feminine fury.
"it is an old custom." he wae say¬ ing, but she had turned away.
"Lanny's plan—mow them down! mow them down! mow tliem down!" sho went on, more to herself than to Wm.
Was there nothing for her to do? Could she only look on in a fever of restlessness while action roared around her? The sight of several au¬ tomobile ambulances in the road at the foot of the garden stilled the throbs of distraction in her temples with an-answer.  The wounded!   They
were already coming in from tho field. She hurried down the terrace steps. The major surgeon in ch.'irs?, sur¬ prised to flnd any woniun In the vi¬ cinity, was about to teli lier so auto¬ matically; then, in view of her inten¬ sity, .lu> waited for lier to speal<.
"Vou will let us do something for tliem?" .Marta asked. "We will make tiiein some hot soup."
lie was Immediately businesslike. No less than Dellarme or Fracasse or Lanstron or Westerling, ho had been preparing throughput hia professional career for this hour. The detail ot caring   for   the  meu  who   were  down
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Marta was not yet at the end of her resources. The recollection of the dy¬ ing private who had asked her mother for a rose in the last war flashed into mind.
"You haven't any flowers! They won't do any harm> even If they aren't sterilized. The wounded like flowers, don't they? Don't you like flowers? Look!    We've millions!"
"Yes, I do. They do. A good idea. Bring all the flowers you want to."
The major surgeon's smile to Marta was not altogether on account of her suggestion. "It ought to help anybody who was ever wounded anywhere in the world to have you give him a flower!" he was thinking.
She ran for an armful of blossoms and was back before the arrival of tbe first wounded man who preceded tbe stretchers on foot He was holding up a hand bound in a white first-aid bandage which bad a red spot In the center. Those hit in hand or arm, if the surgeon's glance justified it, were sent on up the road to a point a mile distant, where transportation in requi¬ sitioned vehicles was provided. Theee men were triumphant In tbeir cheer¬ fulness. They were alive; they had done tbeir duty, and they had the proof of It In the coming souvenirs of scars.
Some of the forms on stretchers bad peaceful faces In unconsciousness of their condition. Others had a look of wonder, of pain, of appreheneion in their consclousnesB that death might be near. The single word "Shrapnel!" by a hospital-corps corporal told the story of crushed or lacerated features, in explanation of a white cloth cover¬ ing a head with body uninjured.
Many of the wounded looked at Marta even more than at the flowers. It was good to see the face of a wom¬ an, her eyes limpid with sympathy, and It was not what ehe said but the way she spoke that brought smiles in response to bers. For slie was no solemn ministering angel, but high- spirited, cheery, of llie sort that the major surgeon would have chosen to distribute flowers to the men. Every remark of the victims of war made its distinct and Indelible impression on the gelatin of lier mind.
"I like my blue aster better than that yellow weed of yours, Totnl"
"You didn't know Kd Schmidt got it? Yes, he was right next to iin' in the line."
"Say, did you notice Deilarme's smile?    It was wonderful."
"And   old   Bert   Straiisk.v!     I   heard
iiini whistling the wedding march as he fired."
'Miss, 111 keep this flower forever!"
"They (yiy IVilly Lister will live—his j cheek was shot away!"
"Once we got going I didn't mind. It seemed like as if I'd been fighting for years!"
"Hole no bigger tlian a lead-pencil. I'll be back in a week!"
"Yes; don't these little bullets make neat little holes?"
"We certainly gave them a surprise when they came up the hill! 1 won¬ der If we niisspd the fellow that jumped into the shell crater!"
"Our company got it worst!"
"Not any worse than ours, I'll wa¬ ger!"
"Oh—oh—can't you go easier? Oh-h-h—" tlie groan ending In a clench¬ ing of the teeth.
, "Hello, Jake! You here, too, and going in my automobile? And we've both got lower berths!"
"Sh-h!    That poor chap's dying!"
W'orst of all to Marta was the case of a shrapnel fracture of the cranium, with the resulting delirium, in which the sufferer's incoherence included memories of childhood scents, mo¬ ments on the firing-line, calls for his mother, and prayers to be put out of mifiery. A prod of the hypodermic from the major surgeon, and "On the oi>erating table In fifteen minutes" was the answer to Marta's question if tho poor fellow would live.  •
Until dark, in groups, at intervals, and again singly, the wounded were coming in from a brigade front in the regIo"n where-the rifles were crackling and the shrapnel clouds were lianging prettily over the hills; and stretchers were being slipped Into place in th§ ambulances, while Marta kept at her post.
"We shan't have much more to do at this station," said the major surgeon when a plodding section of infantry in retreat arrived.
salts to tbe staff. Partow and Lan¬ stron overlooked &I1. Tbeir knowledge made tbe vast map live nnder tbeir e/e's. But car concern is w^th the story of two regiments, and particu¬ larly of two icompanies, and that is etory enough. If you would grasp tbe whole, multiply the conflict on the knoll by ten thousand.
There had been the engrossment of transcendent emotion in repelling the charge. What followed was like some grim and passionless trance with triggers ticking off the slow-passing minutes. Dellarme aimed to keep down the fusillade from Fracasse's trench and yet not to neglect the fair targets ot the reserves advancing by rushes to the support of tbe 12Sth. Reinforced, the gray streak at the bot¬ tom of the slope poured in a heavier flre. Above the steady crackle of bul¬ lets sent and the whistle of bullets re¬ ceived rose the cry of "Doctor! Doc¬ tor!" which meant each time that an¬ other Brown rifle had been silenced. The litter bearers, hard pressed to re¬ move the wounded, left the dead. Al¬ ready death was a familiar sight—an article of exchange in which Dei¬ larme's men dealt freely. The man at Stransky's side bad been killed out¬ right. He lay face down on his rifle stock. His cap had fallen off. Stran¬ sky put it back on tbe man's head, and the example was followed in other cases. It was a good idea to keep up a show oC a full line of caps to the enemy.
Suddenly, as by command, the flre from the base of the knoll ceased alto¬ gether. Dellarme understood at once wbat this meant—the next step in the course of a systematic, irresistible ap¬ proach by superior numbers. It was to allow the ground scouts to advance. Individual gray spots detaching them¬ selves from the gray streak began to crawl upward in search of dead spaces where the contour of the ground would furnish some protection from the blaze of bullets from the crest.
"Over their beads! Don't try to hit them!" Dellarme passed the word.
"That's it! Spare one to get a dozen!" said Stransky, grinning in ready comprehension. He seemed to be grinning every time that Dellarme looked tn that direction. He was plainly enjoying hjuaself. His restless nature had found sport to its taste.
The creeping scouts must have sig¬ naled back good news, for groups be¬ gan  crawling slowly  after tlieni.
"Over their heads! Encourage them!" Dellarme commanded.
After they had advanced two or three hundred >ards they stopped, shoulders and hands exposed in silhou¬ ette, and began to work feverishly with their shades.
"Oh, beautiful!" cried Stransky. "That baby captain of oura has some brains, after all I We'll get them new¬ and we'll get tlicni when tliey run!"
But they did not run. I'nfaltoringly they took their puniehment while they turned over tfie protecting sod in the midst of their own dead and wounded. In   a   few   minutes   tiiey   had   dropped
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had been worked out no less system¬ atically than that of wounding them.
"Thank you, no! We don't want to waste time," he replied. "We must get them away with all epeed so that the ambulances may return promptly. It's only a fifteen-minute run to the hospital, where every comfort and ap¬ pliance are ready and where tbey will be given the right things to eat"
"Then we will give them soma wine!" Marta persisted.
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CHAPTER  XI.
At the Galland House.
Every unit engrossed In his own work! Every man taught how a weak link may break a chain and realizing himself ae a link and only a link! The captain of engineers forgot Marta's ex¬ istence as an error of his subordinates caught his eye, and he ^nt to cautlua the axmcn to cut closer lo the ground, as stumps gave cover for riflemen. Foj* the time being he had no more Interest In tbe knoll than in the wreckage of the dirigibles which were down and out of the fight.
After all, the knoll was only a single point on tbe vast staff matt—only one of m&ny points of a straggle whose progress  was  bulletined  tbrougb  the
spades for rifles, and otliej sections either cra'.«Med 'jr ran forward pre¬ cipitately and fell to the task of join¬ ing the isolated beginnings into a single trench.
Again Dellarme looked towaid regi¬ mental headquarters, his ^xed, cheery smile not wholly masking tho appeal in his eyes. The Grays had only two or three hundred yards to go when they should make their next charge in order to reach the crest. But iiis men had fifteen hundrod to go in the val¬ ley before they were out of range. After their brave resistance facing the enemy tiiey would receive a hail of bull'-ts in their backs. Thia was the tim«» to withdraw if there were to be assurance of a safe retreat. Iiut there was no signal. Until there was, he must remain.
The trench grew;  the day wore on. Two   rifles  to  one   were  now   playing against   his   devoted   company,   which had liad neitiier food nor drink since early   morning.     As   he   scanned   his thinning line he saw a look of blood- lessness   and   iioiielessness   gathering on the set faces of which he had grown so fond during this otdeal.    Some ot the men were crouching too much for effective aim. [      "See that you fire low!    Keep your I heads   up!"   he   called.     "For   your I homes,  your country  and  your  God! ] I^ass the word along!" I      I'arclicd throat after parched throat repeated   the   message   hoarsely   and leaden   shoulders   raised  a  trifle  and dust-matted eyelashes narrowed sharp¬ ly on the sights.
"Kor the man In us!" growled Stran¬ sky. "For the favor of nature at birth that gave ue the right to wear trou¬ sers Instead of skirts! For the Joy of hell, give them hell!"
"For our homes! For the man In us!" they repeated, swallowing the words as If they had the taste of a stimulant.
But Dellarme knew that it would not take much to precipitate a brealc He himself felt that he had been on that knoll half a lifetime. He looked at his watch and It was five o'clock. For seven hours they bad held on. The Grays' trench ^as complete the breadth^ of the elope; more reserves were c6ming up. The brigade com¬ mander of the Grays was going to make sure that tbe next charge suc¬ ceeded.
At last Deilarme's glance toward regimental headquarters showed tha flag that was the signal for with¬ drawal. Could he accomplish it? Tbe first lieutenant, with a shattered arm, had gone on a litter. The old ser¬ geant was dead, a victim of the colo¬ nial wars. Used to fighting savage en¬ emies, he had been too eager in ex- poaing himaelf to a clTlltted foe. He had been shot thr(>ui;b the throat.
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