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One Night -in Flanders
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Those. early trenches Were extren ee soldiers, gone
from the
ever, it would
1y crude --simply citahss Sandbags be hard to get the thirg started again:
' (11011l1111l111111!!Nt{t el. lietiO(!tmolittft/.N11si 'ln11wai were few and far between, Cortu ad f solleane Could have shouked land
qty AktRup., ILE EVE t'+7• •have been heard all :along
had trans oxned• thostoeheothefat Chet what?
watery slots. Dugoi " were Middy could
the directing few do if
CHAPTER VII. Georges, by the sound, must have shut alcoves interjected it random into a !teed, numbering a million, refused.
the door. either wall of the •trench. Mudd/ to start again? And what is the might
xlri 1t> >>r' C. "That was a call from the garage," rifles lay in crevices The gaps be point of view to have of such a condi-
For an hour or more Dick waited came Jack's voice. "Thee Garrick ,gay tween the .rifles Were filled with a:ust tion arose? Should Peace and Good
.patiently at his wireless dictagraph in has been hanging around. My man ing cans, which had brought us food, Wil1l—Christianity—be fostered, lead -
p ' left. But someone saw Garrick in a Herd and there Were slots !tinning. ing to amicable settlement of the dis-
In
rowan, text" bade from the trench., which served ee Mute; or should armed force prevail?
In the silence, broken now and then quicktoilet stations 'and refuse pits. Be- But if someone powerful enough had
by same amateur, he hail plenty of "With Dick?" This query was ,
think of Ruch. In spite of ft'tnn Ruth find a bit anxious. hind our unpleftsant Habitation, •sett arisen in No Man's Land on that
time to«'\ t alone." dry small ''wooden ero.�ses stuck out of morning ane advocated a "stop fight -
to
his suspicions carried him on "Oh ." Her voice died oft in re- the ground; recording the peasing,ef ing" policy, he eveuld have been court -
havethe Parr robbery, taking known to lie£ those who could not have been buried tnartialed and executed.
have included the of valuable "I've sent another fellow out. hope farther away, because of the clangers About noon, as the general laxity
jewels as well as the looting of the he's ill time." and pressures of the moment. enc xrienchinees was were growing, Someone
af
Pair cellar of some of its choicest "Where?" This was -'tom Virg. Try •gyp visualize this ,scene, oyer
vintages. His thoughts ran beyond "Your place." Jack seemed to pound " „ had evidently received a deflated foot -
that, to the radio dance and the sus -which rifle shots eraels anterntittelrt, ball as a Christmas present, Playing
icious signaling from the tower of a table. "They'll give himm the beating lv; then try to t^ealize that this is
P where you meet
live, and that there football with the enemy doesn't sound
the Gerard house. of his life; confound him!—gnash his
fare in—put him in the slteees for a
can be no escape except on a stretcher: right somehow. However, this pro-
\i'le was the He ringleaderhougtf this rocsweek—malbe-•—" If you can do this,. you will have a eat was interrupted.
erable affair? He thought of Brock, B}attlI as interrupted.
suddenly sent for by the cap -
picture of the spot in which the first tain of'rny company; and.cp-
of Georges—and of Jack Curtis. He Dick tinkered and tickled and ad Christmas of the war found us. withino nae told hie that all somethings not
cap -
gritted his teeth. He hated the very jested. All he got was some fool What•
a Christmas! Lurking in a
name of the debonair adventurer. amateur on the same wave length. well. I arrived at his dugout and
g filthy slot that wound its way across heard that there was displeasure in
Dick started from his reverie. The He ether, but
He tried to swear oven; the an ex -turnip field! Yet when the post the mind of the Colonel at the pro -
to
was working! ether, but with ill success• The inter arrived on Christmas Eve, bringing ceeclin s.
"ira was speaking to FLu.h. "Well, Terence was there to stay, as it always several small
paclsagrs •
of food anrl; g
The news had reached the General,
here we are again. For a second last is when one is listening in an some- cigarettes from those back at hortie; incl shark orders lead to terani-
night I thought we were never going thing pretty good. the effervescent nature of the British
nate arty fraternization arrivedimmediately.ter
to get to the old Inner Circle again." Dick was sore, But he was not soldier showed itself and we all cheer- nate else can ar general do? Chatting
There was .hence for a few minutes, surprised. In fact he would have been -
.ad up a b}t. By about midnight; songs with -the enemy takes no place in his
then Ruth spoke: "I wonder when pleased at almost any other trine. Fa, were breaking out here .and there. profession. So, with much trouble, the
even if his family were wealthy, Dick
How painfully ridiculous it seemed! 1
Jack is coming."officers in the front line began herd -
Dick, at the other end, had been a had visions of himself soine day doing Nation facing nation from tw,o long, in the soldier's !lack. The Germans
bit worried about the ethics of what better than the biggest of f eleminahe �t-
winding slots in the ground. Tlris' were made etor understand that the
Garrick's detective proclivities had got firms doing business r after all the mental evolution, al naan friendly meeting was over. The orders
him into. He told himself that he ing ince ferenee. Dick end working through the ages, was the method used
to return tomeeting
the trenches were ordersw
stop listening if it were not for on an invention to that end row, to settle a dispute! How strange ie to return
obeyed.
what Guy would say. The fact was He cast the headgear in useless the dual nature of civilization. which Christmas Night saw both sides
that Dick was almost beside himself vexationa on the table. It seemed to cares even for hopeless cripples at back iia, their lines, and on our left a
with jealousy as he heard Ruth dis- him that he had been on the point of enormous expense in peace, and throws few still•,eir ling soldiers, who had
cussing Jack. getting just the important thing he its strongest and best into a Meehan- not grasped the serious nature of the
Then he heard another voice over wanted to hear. He had been making !cal hell in war. So 1 thought, as I orders, t were shot dawn by opposing
the wireless. He recognized it as notes as he avent: along, for somewhere .sat idly scraping the mud olf my fire.
Brock's voice and Brod: did not seem he had heard something about the hoots The war had started again. Rifles
methods of detectives. • Suddenly a sentry- on my right turn- Spat forllr death across the shell -
His mind was in a ng in, as if a eel down the trench and shouted ex-'
dozen people, were sending in his men- citedly, "Shut up, you fellers! Listen!" scarred turnip field, banishing the
fol ether at °nee. Then, suddenly, as- The music stopped dead. "What's Spirit of Christmas that hatl flitted in
a strange way across No 1lSan'� Land,
if unconsciously, he had sharpened the the matter?" I asked. t' and for feev hours had riumphed.
thoughts to the exact wave length, "The Germans is singin', sir. Listen
one idea seemed to swamp all others. and you'll 'ear' em!"
in the best of tempers with the girls.
"You oughtn't to butt in and try to
stop anything, Ruth—not when it has
gone as far a., that thing slid last
night. You'll get somebody caught
one of these days and—"
There was a thinly veiled threat in
the gruff breaking off of Brock's re-
mark.
"Just because it was the Parrs—
thine d of "
Dick felt that he must get to this Sore enough. We all distinctly
place where Ruth had spent the night beige! the distant seined of a concer-
and where Garrick was running into ting, coupled with voices and occa-
111Q rieaa .s . — danger, if he had not alre ldy fallen tic)nal laughter. Our men seemed
"I know," interrupted Ruth. "But.' into it. And he must get there first• plased too think that the Germans
when you all picked us up after the He tore out of the ,. partnneit, grab- could sing, and play Music, too: There
smash-up and took us to Vira's—why bed the first taxi, rode only a few
was mach laughter and interest at
did you leave the balky stuff at her blocks and dismissed it. this phenomenon. We all wentia?-
house? Suppose someone comes in 1 As he sped down the block, he could
stinetively to the point where our
there—and finds it. A pretty little see the car in front of Gerard's. Then trench approached the German line
front-page scandal!" la man ran across under the are light. most nearly, and listened again. he
"Don't worry. No one will find any -ID tt iels hug rieci. He saw fro the shadow •
German singing and playing continued
thing. Jack will take care of that." It\w° men struggling and a third creep- _amidst much jocular conuneltt from
Vita made a little suppressed ex- a Ing toward then!. Dick could make out our -leen.
clanlation. "I can Imagine my Mater
if I was caught in a bootlegging clean
out! That'd be the last straw on the
dromedary. She'd be looking for some
new sheik for me in the shape of a
grand old octogenarian husband. I was
straight on the road to perdition when
I went into pictures. I shock the folks
a dozen times a day. •,• But a rum -
running scandal! Go, get thee to a
nunnery, Viral"
Dick at the other end was aghast.
` It was all surprising news, this clue
to where Ruth had been the night
before. Also, it was some mitigated
relief. She had got back to town
shaken up by the accident' and had
gone with Vika to Vira's empty town
house: Mord than that, there ' was
something he did not get; but some-
how her smash-up had been concerned
-with trying to frusyrate •soinething,
not. perpetrate it.
"1 'vbn't go back there tonight,
Virg," she said at length. "I'm going
to stay at the Usonia. A. nice little
lecture is coming to me for being out
two nights and snlaehing ' my car:'
Well-... no rum -running' arrest yet.
It might daliipen the ardor- of some-
one I know whose ardor I do..not want
dampened... Brock,•. you' 'said this
would be a lark. • It's a lark;: all right.
'We wake up the larks!" • .
"Ruthie, old sore -bones, low do you
feel? I heard you talking, about a
Iark. You look as if You hac1 been on
one that took a nose dive."
It was Rae, who was at least one
of the new arrivals..
' "Lark!" This froiit Ruth"d'oliteinptue. aril house.
ously. "Yes. One thing leads to an -1 If anything had• ever been there—
with ,smiling, etuiosity, There -vas tltiough the•vast regions vvhet'e the
ether, all right. First We start this the stuff was gone! fi ht—with us?" Mutual trust about the whole thing, flocks roam, and solve parts there
place. Then we get in ovaia'c ur Beads• ThenDi why the g although =levelly accompanied by a � al'e cisterns, though the sheet litre the
- 'Chen v\ e begin getting o'er. own stuff • puzzled Dick as they parted from the.y rp I lie*irlg \vii er lies!. The shepherds
r chagrined raiders. (curious sh ne5s at fir's! which repi
to save money. Then we begin ge.-` g' e .wore off. .There was no, trace, or
know where these drinking places ate
ting more than we tan use liege -to "Just to get us out of the: \v ly, hatred or ata ontslu• One felt the all through the treeless country where
make some money—to pay the other grunted Garrick. "Gosh! I ache! . Iestalnlishinent g that friendliness? streams are few. It is a fine sight to
expanses, Then—" Humph! . The Velvet Gang! , • I I which forms itself between compare see the shepherds bring flocks 'beside
Ruth subsided as another voice be -don't know whether it's a detective,4iolis in misfortune: the still waters' at some well or toitai-
eame audible else. to Dick: Ctlen had t a s t 1 I nret a tiottng Gelman officer ane tarn while rico oun-
evdiently been another of the new
Garrick. He was just in time. - He Suddenly, one of the crowd scramble
hurled himself at the other attacker. ed up the parapet and shouted our:`
Tiey were two against two now. "Come over 'ere!„ '•
But at the moment.when it seemed There was a laugh amongst us at
that each ei•ae getting the.upper hand the absurdity of the notion. Someone
of his man, a couple been
others ran on. else repeated the invitation louder
Evidently they had been trailing him There was an tie invitation
le reply
from Garrick's where they must have front the German trenches; which
been !watching. brought Earth still further merriment
The' fight of the four now swung on our side of the field, Even this
entirely against Garrick and Dick, terrible war had been unable to check
From the Avenue, whence had calve the Spirit, of CIrristtnas !}tat seemed
the new assailants, now canoe a quick to be abroad. Here, on Christmas Eve,
scurry of feet. A whistle. Someone Ito
had 'snapped!
rapped as with a hickory stick on the : `
ctuh, malting hollow echoes.-
'
choes:
' • The four •ficd•.
The irewconiers limited. Garrick and
Diels ltr,cerentelliously to their feet. part of the trench, and found that this
"You're under arrest!" One off ad not only really happened, but that
th^_ret flashed a badge..:, haw you come j one or two more from both sides were
out of the cellar of the' Inner Circle I on their way to do the same thing, The
last' night. Also you -were on, drat! situation from a military point of view •
roof tonight'!" country of Bible lauds. rhe strep
° \\ es absrii d. W!tat should be clone herds geld: not rely on them. Even
Garrick •looked at the• badge. They ; about it? We were soldiers who had where streams are found, their beds
were revenue enforcement men. He fought, and had got td continue fight -
pulled his, own card, issued by the ,ing.' To stop suddenly and be friendly t and banks are usually broken and
their flow rough. Sheep are timid
and fear a current of, water, as they
well may, for tlrtey are'easily carried
stream because of their wool."
• "Poor things, how clo they ever get
a good drink?" exclaimed one of the
two little maids, •\whose heart was al-
ways open lovingly to animals.
"The shepherd sees -tee that, doesn't
An excited soldier ran to me.
"They've met, sir! One of our leen
and a German! Out there in the open!"
I hastened back with hien to that
Ask for Salads Orange
Pekoe it is the . finest
'Fresh groat the gardens
"I think 1 love you. most because
you remind me so much of my first
Wife."
"Yes, and if I married you, I'm
afraid you'd always be reminding me
of her." . -
-Beside Still Waters
"When at last the sheep are led
'beside still waters,' how good it is,
after the dust and heat of the sheep -
paths.
Would you get the shepherd mean-
ing here? Then remember that
streams are few in the shepherd
Comptroller .of State. There \vas a `seemed a preposterous thing. But
memen dof perplexity, then explana- i there was a greeter force than armies
tions and apologies. T at the front .that night. •
"Thought you were in the Velvet' As the dawn came T was able to see
•
Gang, too." the situation. Our soldiers were every -
"The Velvet Gang?" where in disorder. Some were•stand-
" etc—that's what we niclsnamec}, ing on the parapet, •a position which
that bunch of aristocractic rural -rut! at a normal time would have spelt
nets." (sudden clewth: Others.were straggling, he?„ said the outer timidly, with
One of ahem had picked up the lsey out into No Man's Land. ! earnest eyes set on our guest... .
"Ah -ha! We're in luck!" 1. Looking towards the German lines f e
So, without the formality of a Shall I tell you how the shepberd
search warrant, they enterd the Ger-
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THE HAPPIEST DAY
If any man, poor or rich, were to
say that lie would tell us what had
been tlhehapniest day in his life, and
the why and the wherefore, I suppose
that eve should all cry out, "dear
him! !tear hirer!" As to the happiest
day, that must be very difficult for
any wise 3)1811 to name, because any
event which could occupy so distin-
guished a place in a man's retrospect
of his life, or be entitled to have shed
a special felicity on any one • day,
ought to be of such an enduring 'char-
acter as that, • accidents apart, it
should have continued 'to sired• the
I saw preeisely the same scenes. The
soldiers of both armies were approach
-iug,one another across Nodelan's Land
sees to it that the sheep have a go()
drink every day?'.. Listen:
"There are wells and fountains all
that's needed so much—or a psycho-
analyst ---or an alienist—or a spiritual
adviser!" •
(To'be continued.)
i wide silent con.
exchanged buttons as souvenirs, Wath 1 over which they and many other sheep
my wire -cutting' pliers I removed' lain,
wanclerod spreads all avenue
button from his tunic, and---7-.ltir111 ,them, and the full expanse cf the Sky
one of ?cline in exchange. Tater, I wvds'' arches over thong, •
photographed by a German' with sev- 'The •sltel?betel makes a Certain
erals others, in a group composed of . sound; all his sheep lie down and
both sides. Not far from us lay some i Etre quiet. Then he tills the drinking
-
dead, now approachable for the first , troughs. The babbling of the four -
time. The scene was so str<nuge that l tain, or -the current, it it be by a
in a simple, foolish way 1.felt the stream, is no longer there to trouble
war could not endure in face of, it all. the 'sheep, They can drink now en-
This fraternization was nosy talcirl
! � � $, ttistiu'Ueci. This is the delicate mean-
,._ place on a front of: half a mile. Stroll ! • g of tl at word 'still,' As the He-
ing about in No !!fan's Land, 1• observ-
"That ratan looks" perfectly con- ed the extent of the thing, No Metn's
tented" Land! where only e few Aare ago it
arrivals.
"Now, fellows," smoothed out. Glenn,
"quit doing your stuff. No good ever
comes—"
"To rogues when rogues fall out;"
Ruth finished with a laugh and some
in the soft voice.
claws
"l: hear Jack and Georges down-
stairs," Rae changed the subject
diplomatically. "Oh, here's Jack, now.
Well, Jack, what's the dirt?"
Ruth did not wait for any answer,
"Did you—?"
"Yes, I did, Ruth," hastened Jack.
•"Got :t good scout to go up there to
Vira's place and remove those Parr
cases as soon as the Coast ie, clear—
Say, eleven o'clock."
• "What time is it now?"
"Must he about that now It's.
rafter."
Goorges' yucca :aterrupted: "Tele-
phone, Curtis. Anel Broula.
Ja'dk event out, epparantlw,
In
brew wordy put it, 'Ile leadetli beside
he waters of tyutdtltess: "-•groat
t
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