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Home My WebLink AboutThe Clinton News Record, 1917-04-12, Page 2THROUGH THE DARK SHADOWS Or The Sunlight of Love CHAPTER\XXV, Lord Barminster onducted Mr. Bailor to the Octagon room, 804181l. - ed fron its peculiar elettpe, "If you will wait hero," he said courteously, "T will have some re, freshment sent up to you and the ladies, when they arrive," "Thank you my lord," returned lM Z'. i<Iaalcer grateilu'ly. Sooting himself, he weited patient- ly for she arrival of Mise Looter and • Jessica, secretly congratulating him- self on the emcees of his interview. any—leeches, perhaps, who have suck The time passed quickly; and, while ed ham dry of all his possessions, an waiting Lord Barminster and Monti- then deserted him:' XX mer Shelton held a hurried consulta- '4SPealtfen yourself, you cur," cried tion with him as to the best method of Shelton, "since it is you, and your •exposing Vermont. Lang before dishonest management` of his estates they had finished, Miss Lester and her that have brought him to this,. pass." niece had arrived, the former flushed Jasper smiled sardonically, with ercltement and triumph at the Say rather that is is I who have prospect of at last, as she expressed constantly warned him against every it, "getting her own back," with Jas- fresh extravagance, knowing full well per•. Iwhat must, happen. Ask him your - Lord Barminster and Shelton de -self, if you doubt my word; eslc him `secended to the terrace, where ,they! whether I have not -implored him, time found Lady Constance; and almost, and tine again, to relinquish at least immediately' after, came Adrien, with some of his many ruinous pleasures his inevitable companion, Jasper Ver -1 and follies; to deny himself at least Mont.one eenditure." Lard Barminster had already ar-IxpAdrian turned his dark eyes to his ranged for his three visitors to be in •father's stern.fabe. the morning -room, which opened on to' "Sir," he said gently. "I really do the terrace, as they w6uld there be not see. why . this scene should con - within call, and, also within. earshot. 1 tinue. If any explanations are neces- "A word with you, Mr. Vermont," sary, Mr. Vermont shall give them to began Shelton sternly. Jasper smiled, as usual, and turned; Vermont turned away with a scorn- tdwarcis him: I ful laugh, but -Shelton grasped his "As ir.anyas you like; Mr. Shelton," arm, he said smoothly. "One minute," he said, "before you Mortimer looked at him steadily; sneak away." then he said in a voice which was hard Keep your hands off me, - yeti as steel: monied fool," cried Vermont, wrench- "Mr- Vermont, Lord Barminster has ing himself free from •the other's • kindly allowed me to speak first. We grasp. • "I know nothing about this have every reason to believe that you City business, you must apply to have had seine connection with this Barker himself., It is your name affair of Harker's, notwithstanding that is forged, not mine—though I your profession of friendship for suppose you want to screen the real Adrien." Mr. Vermont drew himself up proudly. "I?" he said indignantly. "What should I have to- do with money -lend- ing?" "Be careful, said Shelton sternly, "there are not people wanting who your sole object. What harm have I will fight for Leroy's honor, even as it ever wrought you, Jasper? Some - were their °elm." . thing else must have inspired your Vermont smiled cynically. conduct. I ask you to give me the "Indeed, Shelton," he said, "it isre hardly for you to speak. After all, There was a dead silence as the it was you who nearly, ruined Adrien gentle words were spoken. Jasper. by your denial of the bill, not I." raised his eyes to the pale face of the • Lord Barminster strode forward, man he had so basely betrayed, and "You cowardly : rascal," he .eee bit his bloodless lips a dogged silence. claimed furiously; but Mortimer At'this moment a commotion was placed himself between them, heard at the Iower end of the terrace. "My toed," he said, "leave him to Some of the servants were trying to me. If force is necessary, T will punish him.". Jasper smiled. "You wrong me, Shelton," he said gently; "and not only me, but Adrien, whom you pretend to care for. I have stood his true friend, as he knows, and have done my best to keep trouble from him, when indeed, none .other, could have done so. But I sup- pose this is all the gratitude I can expect from you for the discharge of friendship's duties. Adrien will no longer be of the fashionable world you think after yesterday's case; and it is high time to get rid of his humble friend, Jasper Vermont." Adrien, who had been talking to Lady Constance, now glanced ap- pealingly towards Mortimer; but with a gesture, as if to silence him, Shel- ton ;turned to Vermont again. Fpretty frienclle eButrno med bntterlY. `=L interruption, and again he made as if p Y ore of this, to thrust the man away. I advise yoi to leave thee astle while „ you are safe, for we have sufficient Stop,„ said Adrien, glancing al - proof. here to send you to penal servi- tude.” sadly at Constance, who smiled tude." lovingly beet. "Let him speak, since "leave ou "Yes,the ods P,attninster repeated, he your wayinelike'this? Whae t do house at once. .If I find you within my grounds as hour hence, you want of me?" I will thrash you within an inch of (To be continued)" your life, old Man as I am." - — —r Jasper Vermont's. face grew livid Eternity. with anger, and something approach- ing fear as well; he clenched his hands The human mind cannot grasp the so tightly, that the carefully manicur- full meaning of such terms as etern- ed nails dug deep into his flesh. But ity and infinity. Time and time again with characteristic insolence he tried preachers and men of science have to brazen it out. . "Your grounds ?" lie exclaimed, in tried to bit upon some illustration that virulent scorn. "Your grounds, my would give us some imaginative real - lord! First tell me whore I shall find ization of what the words mean. Many them? You have no grounds. Bar- of the efforts have been picturesque, Minster Castle is in the hands of a but among all those that the writer moneylender; these lands, as far as can remember at the moment none is the eye can reach; are the property of Mr. Harker, the city capitalist, by right of countless bills and deeds which your precious son has made over to him." - With an exclamation of pain and astonishment, Adrien gazed on the Man wham he had so loved and trust- ed. There was no mistaking the bit- ter hatred that was in Vermont's tones, At last, his eyes were be- ing opened to the man's true char- acter. Lord Barminster regarded liini steadily. "You're mad!" he said quietly, "Oh, 00, non" laughed Vermont, "It is net 1 who sun marl, but you who foolishly handedover your wealt to your son before it was his by nigh h1 You should 'e let him wait 411 death had removed ,you, before yo gave him full power over Bar'minster Such lavish expenditure as his woul empty the coffers of a nation. Hi folly has melted• every stone of you precious castle in the cup of pleasur and hoe poured out the costly draugh at the feet of his friends and paras iter. Friends ? He has never ha I me." criminal and fix on ale as a scape- goat." Shelton was about to retort, but Adrien intervened,,: "Tell me one thing," he said quietly. "What has been your motive for all this? I cannot believe that gain was prevent the approach of a man, who was striving to get nearer to the lit- tle group. But he was too strong for then;; with a bound he had freed himself from their restraining arms, and sprang forward, as if about to strike at Adrien. But Shelton thrust himself forward and bore him back, "Who is this? Are we to have all the scum of the earth in here? Do youy know this man, Leroy?" he asked "Yes, I do," answered his friend in the low, restraining tones so habitual to him_ "Yes, I should just think you dol" exclaimed the man, struggling to push past Mortimer's _outstretched arm. "It isn't likely as you'll forget Johann Wilfer, Adrien Leroy, nor me you either." "This is too much!" cried Shelton, now thoroughly enraged at this fresh more striking than this: Were one of the smallest known insects to take an atom of this earth, an atone so small as to be invisible to the; naked eye, and carry it to the most distant star, a journey that it would need a million years to make, and, returning, take another infinitesimal speck and mance another million -year trip, and so on until this whole planet with lite upon it and in it had been removed, eternity would then have only begun. Weak fences to the hog -runs make the faience run, IS WA TEI'PROOF it you use "Nugget" water will not des. troy the shine. Brush otf the mud and• the original polish . � p s Oil there. Buy a tin to -day. All dealers+ toe. per tin. • Black Tan, Toney ey Meed, Bark Brown "rake' 6'ARa' Ole VoU14.sNOf*r" SEES DEATH OF GERMANY'S lIOPES NEW BRITISH ARMY WILL LEAD ALLIES TO VICORY. Troops of King George Come "to Res- cue of Noble France, Bled White, An American correspondent ih France writes the. fol]Q,w�ing article:-- As I left the British i'ront for Paris early in March, an English officer said to me: ' "Stranger things could happen than that the final blow against these bar- barians' be delivered by the armed force of the great , English-speaking nations of the world, two nations with laws and ' customs of approaching aimifarlty," I had spent forty-eight hon•with his command, and I take off my hat to the Icing's army. They, are -the real goods. They have that which France had in 1914 and now lathe— youth. And every man is in the game heart and soul, not only for the honor of England and the cause of France and right, but as a sporting .proposi- tion, fall of enthusiasm, grit, gayety and the stuff that Wins. The marvel of it is that they are all trained soldiers; there is absolute- ly nothing of the recruit about them. While with them I was permitted -that rare thing for a correspondent, to ad- vance in their conquering company upon territory relinquished by Ger- many. I was deeply impressed by their earnestness, their eagerness; and I could not but think of the doggerel, the slogan if you will: We don't want to fight, but, by Jingo, if we do We've got the linea, we've got the ships, we've got the money, too. There were not any ships around, although a boat would not have been by any means an inappropriateething in the sea of Somme mud and water, and I did not see any money; but the men were there by t e hundred and hundreds and hundr ds of thoubands, each alert, bright-eyed, vigorous, im- bued to -the core with the spirit that counts...I saw in it all sure death t0 H011 hopes; for the Beebe is always a Hun to the Englishman. Recovered Territory. They have taken in the last seven days almost 5,000 prisoners and ninety officers in addition. They have plant- ed the flag of right over what is left of the villages of Ligny-Thilloy, Thol- loy, Le Barque, Warlencourt, Pys, Miraumount, Petit-Miramount, Gi•and, court, Puitieux-au-Mont, Serre, Gom- lnecourt and some more. They have advanced upon a front of thirty-seven kilometres long and from five to nine deep, changing the German line from a crooked zig-zag that would measure thirty miles on a strpight line, to the half of an eccentric elipse measuring less than twelve. They hold every road to Bapaume'(Bapaume has fall- en since this .was written) and the railroad from Arras to Peronne is at the mercy of their heavy guns. The load to Cambrai, twenty kilometres away, is an open book to them, and the town with it, Look at the map andel see what this means. • Huns the Only Dead. . I was with their advance as it en- tered two of these villages, a privilege as yet given to .n0 other correspond- ent is this war. These two villages are but mutilated effigies of the peace- ful hamlets of early 1914. But they. are part of the great objective of re- deemed France. And the only Boche, the only Hun, within and about them, is a dead one, Off in the distance, beyond the new German line I saw Bapaumo through my glass; Bapaumo, the scene of a Prussian victory in 1871,, and soon to be the scene of an English victory of 1917. Its church spire reached up into the gray sky, while before and behind it shells tore the air. I saw thousands of Jchaki-°lad Eng- lishmen covering thousands of square feet of martyred ground with pick and shovel. They were, like a crowd of ants, each touching tine other; or like a great crowd of feverish gold seekers as I remember seeing upon the seashore;gat Nome. They were trine •sesking, indeed, but mines of death. For the Beetle is a gentleman who plants little mines to kill tiie hated enemy after 11e has taken gyouud, comfortably installed him- self and is enjoying his cup, of tea. T won't say how many of these mines I saw unearthed. It would take three figures alone in a space 2,000 meters long by '75 deep, Devastation Wrought by ;hells.. One sector that the Bache ec11n- quislled was most exceptionally foti- lied months and months ago. At two occasions (luring November and Janu- ary, it had been unconquerable. It rests upon 0 front of three kilometers creep, u vast and practically demolish- ed fortification, not a single squar0 yard of muddy g'reund about it being fees from the pot meek of shell. Its trenches no lang'er existed, the -shel- ters were crumbling holes, the barbed wire a mass of tangle;; nothing. There was not living thing "bout, not oven' a trench rat.,, Bub there were a lot c.2 dead ones, and dead horses, and some unburied dead mer. I saw where three Germane 240 bat- teries had worked, The gins 'then", selves were still there, intact save for. spiking and missing essential Barts, Beside them were a quantity of per - erectly good unexploded shells that presently will goupon adeath -Jour- ney in the opposite direction. .1I1e prisoners I saw, three lots of them coming in under Tommy escort, were not, the. second and third rate hien 111ac1 seen on other' sections ' 0.2 the remit. They were from twenty- tWo,to thirty years old, giants in Stature, and seonlhigly, well ,fed. One would may they were the very rower of what is left of the Bache army, and ifr the shell -torn hell they had evacuated only Bite hest typo of $01- a dier could stand the gaff. Many Of 0 DIM spoke wither French or Englitht As 1 said at the outset of this story;. take off my hat to the King's men. 1 (o man who has seen Its youth, ha Vigor, its splendid morale, its stu- pendolls am9unt of artillery of ell. calibors, its acres and acres of unex- ploded shell, and the soldierly quaiitY of its officers, can do otherwise. They hold the Boehe on their section of the front, .en ineroasing section, 209; an<I the Bache knows 12. They have mon in Franco and more coming. • TOE EMPIiIE'S FOOD.. The Finn Achievement of 0110 Adieu Railway, What appearsto be new lighte,upon the policies back of the construction. of railways in Canada is furnished in a paragraph in the last annual report of the Canadian Northern Railway issued recently. • This paragraph deals with the handling over the rails of the Can- adian Northern of some 182,000,000 bushels of grain destined chiefly for itfeeding of the Allies overseas, and 1•una n "Inasmuch armany of the security - holders invested their funds in the company's undertakings, believing that 'the heart of the Empire would some day need to draw heavily upo the wheat fields of the Canadian West it is with pride that the directors pre sent these . figures, illustrating th extent to which` the prairies have bd opened up, made productive and t produce marketable by the company' railways. There were probably few who thought that the crucial necessity would come so soon; but having come it must be considered fortunate tha the Canadian Northern system and the country tributary to it were suf ficiently developed to take an import ant part in supplying the - Empire' food requirements." Twenty years ago a new epoch commenced in Canada, and also ap- parently in the 'Mother Country. In the "Tight Little 'Isles" across the Atlantic, earnest minds were occupied with the problem of feeding the peo- ple of Britain, a problem that would be a very sober fact in the event of that country being involved in hos- tilities with any European power of the first class. The policy seems ‘tri been arrived at then, to rely upon the power of the British navy to keep the seas open for the passage of cargo vessels, and also' to rely upon the opening .up of vast areas of wheat lands in ,suitable localities overseas, in order that an adequate supply of food products be produced to fill the holds of the ships for the people of Great Britain for all time to come. Towards the close of the century, the people in the' west began to clam- or for rail facilities for the vast areas without railways lying to the north of the Canadian Pacific, and therein lay the cause of the origin of the Can- adian Northern .Railway' system in 1896. Apparently the ability to grow wheat ief the country it proposed to open up, and the baelcing the people. of Manitoba granted the enterprise, were sufficient inducements to the men directing the surplus gold of, Britain, and the funds necessary to complete the initial construction were readily forthcoming. Until the commence- ment 0 hostilities in Europe in 1914, British gold continued steadfast, and as the Canadian Northern extended its network of lines throughout' the Prairie Provinces, before reaching out with its easy grade lines to the sea- ports on the east and on the Pacific, a steadily increasing supply of wheat was moved out from the territory cul- tivated for the first time by the settlers who had poured in hard upon the heels of its construction gangs. During 1915, when Canada harvest- ed the largest crop in the history of the.country, and incidentally the most valuable, the yield along the linos of the Canadian Northern in the west was enormous, and from this terri- tory came the 132,000,000 bushels of grain that wore handled over the lines of the system during 1910 as outlined in the Company's annual report. But the effect of the investment of this British gold in the Canadian Nor- thern Railway is not confined to the production of food -stuffs transported across the Atlantic to feed the war•- occupied nations of Europe. Every settler in -the vast regions opened up by the Hoes of the railway has been a customer for the goods produced in the industrial establishments in east- ern Canada, in the United States and in Europe. It would be almost im- possible to compute the number: of the arit1y of workingmen who have drawn their wages in this direct way from the•western wheat bin, and no figpros live hese compiled to sh Can- n e ene he a t e tent and value of the business p1'ovid- ed the manufacterees of eastern Can- ada by the opening up of that vast western market. As the prospects of peace become brighter, the expecta- tion that then° will Ile a movement from abroad to the fertile lands of western Canada greater tliall any- thing the country has yet experienced, is growing into a fixed belief. -on the pert of Canadians generally. Should it develop, this potential development "lade possible solely because the railways have furnished a netivork of lines serving the lands which will be developed by the incoming tide of hu- rramity—will add enormously to the new business of the industries in On- taeio and Quebec, and now armies of worinnee will be engaged upon the task of supplying the needs of the ve'tern 1)001)10. British gee] -I --and, since the war, American gold --1101 been the rnealis, of facilitating' a great dal of the de- velopmellt in Canada in other ways,' but there can scarcely be any doubt that its greatest achievement in this country has consisted in the furnish- � ing of the funds for the building of the railways opening up unpeopled ;. territories Within the Dominion. l+'or alms the dcvelollmeet of thole territories hinge,, a groat deal of the 1. prosperity ot'til the: people in Canada, `272e Mending wpacsaiOnai " 'rrsmr ;r8l,r a-'. air , r..r•..,,L, Econon y in Milk, Fruit, and Vag tables. Secure the best milk at any pri for the babies. Their lives depen upon it. Buy skimmed milk for milk sou and desserts, because it is a subst tutu for meat protein, and costs abou a quarter filo money. Home-grown fruit is cheaper tha any other. A. small garden may b made to yield a great variety, Fruit from the grocer or fruit-dea er always costs more because, in add tion to the dealer's profits; the con sumer must pay enough to cover th cost of the package, the cost of tran portation,and the cost of what spoil on the dealer's hands. It is always poor policy to buy poo fruit; not only is the flavor usuall poorer, but usually,khe same mone spent on good fruit will go farther As a rule it is well to see fruit be fore purchasing. Telephoned order frequently result in mushy berrie bruised fruit, or green fruit. As mucin as possible use fruit wile fresh, and at its best and cheapest sea son, when it is most wholesome; th family enjoys it better, and it take the place of cooked dishes, which talc more time and lobi e- milk, grease mould and steam 80 min- .utes Serve with white Sauce with ce gherkins, parsley or hard boiled eggs, cl Clarified fat may be used in placo 'of butter. soup 1 The School Lunch t, Hemmed or fringed squares of cot- ton crepe make good napkins for the 11 school lunch box. They are easily e washed and do not need to be ironed. :Ilse two napkins—one for packing 1- the lunch and one for the child's use 1- when eating his lunch. In dusty sea- : sons food should be wrapped especial- o ly well. Sandwiches and other arti- s- cies should be wrapped separately in s neat parcels with paraffin paper, which may be bought at a low price, 1' especially if purchased in large quan- Y, titles. Small jelly glasses, paper Y. cups, and peanut butter or cold cream jars of various sizes may be used for , the moist foods. • s! Innchoosing a. lunch box, ventilation, a, a ,.f n„nU• g, and carrying, and particularly the ease with which it can e be washed and scalded, should be con- - sidered. Metal boxes and sans Indy e be more thoroughly scalded and s cleansed than baskets.or elaborate ° lunch boxes with separate comport- ; meets for dishes, knives, forks and 11, spoons, but if the latter are carefully ",packed so that food cannot spill out, -: they have the advantage' of being ° more quickly filled Store fruit supplies with care. Tur berries and small fruits out on plat tees or trays in a. shallow layer to pre vent their further crushing, and t prevent moulding, and keep ie a col place. Pick over the basket of ap ples, plums, peaches, etc,; remove an showing the least decay, spread th rest on trays and keep in a cold place Oranges, grape fruit, and cranberrie will keep in ordinary rooms, but ar better spread out on shelves. Watch fresh fruit stores closely, an if it cannot be used while fresh, stew or preserve it before it spoils. At the beginning of the prhseriing ,..y otner de type of box. This is important for _ the mother who must prepare the y; children's lunches at the busiest hour °. of the day. Baskets are naturally • :well ventilated, but several holes s punched in the metal box or can will e let in sufficient air. ” When there are several children in d a household for whom lunches must be put up, :.trong, well-conotructed hunch boxes with compartments for keeping food hot and cold and hold- o ing lipuels are very satisfactory. Many children are finicky about hav- ing sandwich filling of any sort soak into bread, and for this reason many mothers simply slice the bread, but- ter it lightly and let an older child t prepare the sandwiches at the school. Bananas, oranges, and other food hav- ing a strong odor are apt to flavor the sandwiches and cake, and so should be packed separ:liely or the rest of the lunch properly protected by special wrapping. An . ordinary piece of pie is very seldom palatable by the time it has been packed in a box with other food for four hours. Individual pies( on the other band, delight the children and are in perfect conidition when the tenth is opened, Individual cus- tards, cup cakes, and simple puddings in custard dishes are simple to pro- pane, and there is a fascination for children in this method of service. Scalloped corn, baked beans, rice with cheese, and other dishes may be put in custard dishes fitted with a 11d, and• these may be heated by the child on the school stove, Whole milk, skimmed intik, butter- milk for the children, instead of so much neat, is both more wholesome and cheaper. Give them all they will take. good plan to get out til jars, match up jars and tops, an d "lake sure they are thoroughly clean and ready for sterilizing, and do them all in one big job instead of waiting until fruit is on one's hands. If the garden yields little 'fruit a a time, the preserving is lightened if sugar syrup is made by the croekful and stored away. It is then an easy "natter to 'fill `a. jar or two with the fresh fruit, fill up with the syrup, and place it in the oven on a block of wood to cook while other work is go- ing on. Fruit supplies valuable mineral mat- ter, which helps to keep the blood in gond condition, therefore it is unwise to do without it. A fruit bill yields more satisfaction than a doctor's, Homo -grown vegetable's are the cheapest, and a very small garden yields great variety. All fresh vegetables are valuable for their mineral matter, and some yield a good deal of carbohydrates, while the legumes yield cheap protein. There is great opportunity to lessen the vegetable bill by using more of the root vegetables, especially in winter, and less canned • stuff or expensive green stuff. Canadians need to pay "tore at- tention to the cooking of vegetables. Too frequently they are spoiled by un- der -cooking or over -cooking, or care- less seasoning. Their value as meat substitutes or meat seasonings is not half appreciated. Too frequently their valuable mineral matter, our 01110f excuse for buying them, is pour- ed down the drain with the cooking water. Canadians need to study tine pos- sibilities of the legume vegetables. Even at present prices they furnish cheap protein. Split pea soup and baked beans are not the only dishes to be made from them, With pota- toee at the present price, legunee dishes eve cheap substitutes for both Moat and potatoes. More Fisk Recipes. Fish Onmelette-14 cup chopped par- sley, 2 eggs, 2 teaspoons butter. Separate yolks from whites, to beaten yolks add fish, parsley and •seasoiring. Work it until creamy. Beat whites fill still', lightly stir fish mixture into whites. 141e1t butte;', pour in mixture, spread evenly. When well puffed and delicately browned, fold and turn omelette. Pass dry lcilife through folds if It comes out dry, omelette is dnlfe, Fish Pie -7t ib. fish, 14 lb. mace - mei, le cup white deuce or strained juice of tomato, 1 tablespoon butter, 2 sups bread crumbs, little grated omen rind and juice, salt and pepper. Cook macaroni until tender, chain and chop into mall pieces, ,'lake fish, grease pie' or bake -dish, put in half 211ae11r0111, half sauce, Put in fish and Reason, Put in remainder of meth- There will no doubt be a good (fe- minist for rhubarb this Spring, after 'f the Winters eleortagr of fruit; le 1 should pray to force a portion of the talic.by saltine '" olcl mill keg or rate 0V00'1lhe r'aali.i. , Uove' with uutter'ed road cetunbs, Bake i11 moderate ver. Steamed Fish Podding. -;--2 cups laked 21811, 2 cups soft bread erun ba, egg, 'CA cup.rnO, se•1,on with rhee- led 1)0(010^ or little 0n 1r rl don0l', A 1 L'04.11 111"" ,+111" •,c Ind season, Stir ie bite." 1; ,. id Buns Piling Coal Up. Piles of coal, covering scores of acres, are being heaped up around the .collieries at Charleroi, Liege and kions, where nearly 50,000 Belgians are working in night and day shift:,. Although there is great shortage of coal at places less than a hundred miles away, none of the coal is being moved, as the German authorities re- quire all available means of transport for military purposes. This 15 a good tinge to order the shrubbery for the improvement of the home grounds. ' Good plantings are an investment in beauty incl tvill act- ually improve the selling price of a place. BRMSH RAMS ON GERMAN TRENCIIES HOW THE SOLDIERS PREPA;,d8 FOR THE ATTACK. Success of Raid Depends on Its Suddenness and Swift Accomplishment. The night was bitteerly cold, says Patrick McGill, the famous Irish auth- or, in a story to the New York Sun, and a wind, keen as a knife, sweeping across the snowclad levels of No Man's Land, bit the ears of the sentries standing on the fire -steps of the Brit- ish trench. Now and again a man would bend down, shelter..his face be- hind the parapet and look at his lum- inous wrist watch; then he would stand erect again and resume his vigil. In one of the dugouts a dozen men or more were busy, fastening bombs to their equipment and buckling iron ra- tions to their belts, They were mak. ing ready for a raid, one of those "shows" in which the British soldiers delight and which keep the Germane constantly apprehensive and jumpy. The attack for which the men were preparing had a definite purpose. A machine gun had been worrying the sector for days, and ration parties crossing the open at night had paid toll to the vicious weapon. Its exact location could not be determined, but somewhere out there in the confines of the enemy lines it lurked, and though the English guns pounded at the Ger- man trenches from time to time they did not silence it. A Storm of Bullets. At midnight, after a comfortable allowance of rum had been served round, the raiders crossed the parapet and made their way over No Man's Land. , The snow, frozen hard, lay on the ground and filled up the shell - holes. The advance was made silent- ly at a slow, steady pane, a yard inter- val between each man and his neigh- bor. The men's sheepskin coats blended with the snow, and at a short distance off the raiders were invisible to an onlooker. They had just got halfway across when the machine gun,' which had been silent for a good two hours, suddenly woke up and a hail of bullets flew over elle raiders' heads. The men dropped flat on the snow and lay there, their' rifles stretched out in front, the bayonets showing like black, straight lines against the whiteness. A message came from the officer, on the right, "Advance!" The machine gun was merely searching for ration parties; its object wens the road im- mediately behind the British front trench. The raiders were safe as yet. They went forward for a dozen yards, then threw themselves flat again. 9. star shell had risen from the enemy (wench, lighting urn the whole vicinity. The men, lying clown, peered tensely ahead, their eyes dazzled by the star shell's reflection on the snow. A million sparks fell earthward and the seeeeee flare died down. The men continu- ed their advance. The Fluttered Cry. They reached the run of the trench; no wire G,lltanglements obstructed their way, the British gunners had seen to that. The men looked in, clown on the occupants. Isere stood a. sentry half asleep. .lie lonked up, grabbed his rifle, then dropped it and flung up his hands. "Kamerad1" ho whiner]. On hie night a mute rondo fight, a rifle shot rang out; then somebody'uttered n piercing yell. A raid depends for success on its suddenness and swift accomplishment, Of these qualities 131' t!slt soldiers are mestere. They set About their labor, with zest; "got down to i,," as the phrase luta ft. One squall jumped in- to the trench aril "loved toward the right, a bayonet man leading and a number of bombers following. An- other squad went toward the lett. 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