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Show too 'l‘llll l).\l{l\', FURICS'I' cross-roads. they came to a pause. tor me. THE INVTSIIZIJC BATTLE 'l‘he guide, was waiting "lt would he lielter, your llonour." he. whisp ered, "tor the wagons to stay here. the stretclters. . . .i‘ "'0 shall go now simply with of his men with an air as though he commanded the whole of this world of ghosts. "What. are you thrill}: here t" he asked. \Vc explained. We left the wagons and, some tilteen of us, turne d off down a latte to the lctt. Sometimes there were soldi ers in the hedges, sometimes they met us, slipping: from shad ow to shadow. Always we aslted whether they lithW o'l' any wounded. \Ve tound a wounded soldier groaningr under the. hedge. One leg was soaked in Mood and he gave little shrill desperate cries as we lifted him on to the stretcher. An~ other soldier, lying: on the road in the moonlight, murmured incessantly: "li'oje moi! 13on moi! Bojé moi!" lint they were all ghosts. "'0 alone, in that familiar and yet so unreal world, were alive. 101 " ‘Cell. it' you'll excuse me. you‘d hettcr make haste. attach very shortly . . . yes. out ot" this. An l should advise you to be. l'etroe‘rzulshy (ltriadf Yes . . . very glad to have the pleasure. " \\'e 1"" him. his mcu a nrey cloud ltt'llllltl him, and when \H‘ had tal-.cu a few steps he st‘t'titt'tl, with his young air of itupnttutu‘t‘. lti< happy rut‘l'lltll\' courtesy. to have lit-en called wit of the around. then, with all his shadows hehiud him, to l.;t\c l‘ttlt caught up into the air. 'l‘hese were not, tie'urea th..t had anything to do with the little curling wreaths. ot suwlw, the la ttlt-s t‘t'.'|t‘l\lttj;‘ iu the sun. our l'urious giants of "'hen a stretcher was filled, four sanitars turned hack with it to the wagons, and we were soon a very small party. \Ve arrived at a church‘a large fair tastie white church with a green turret that I had seen llu' ttutt'tiittg'. ".\h. It, )1 i i, llwflit' moi." sighed the wounded. . . . lt new itttl‘ ‘-~llrlc. it. with a world ot' dim shadow. that there ‘lwau‘x H'l.t'l‘:~4tt|tl<l21;:lltl. from the opposite hill in the morning. Then it had seemed small and very remote. I had been told that much tiringr had been centring round it, and it seemed now for me very strange that we should be standing under its very shadow. its outline so quiet and grave under the moon, with its churchyard, a little orchard behind it, and a grardcn, scentinjar the night air, close at hand. Here in the graveyard there was a group of wounded soldiers, in their eyes that l :rl ucxv r hit me: l had had no douht. rt lt..l"hour. that l was on the l'luchauted Item}. ~o stray and tia'ttrativo had heen my 1 .l \tiw tlu-y were all :"athcred into this =lw . ti'.tit~ I‘r'l‘t'l‘v't'tl its climax. "All," ‘5 "It l lltll'lll only stay here now ll should tr l ~ll'llllil tualtc my discovery, hunt. t t. It l out on the verge I must leave. ,.. look of faithful expectation of certain relief. Our stretch- ers were soon full. We were about to turn hacl: when suddenly the road liehind us was filled with shadows. As we came out of the churchyard an officer stepped forward to meet us. We saluted and shook hands. He seemed a boy, hut stood in from -t l the world. in stuito of tho 'tt tilw Mitt-ciolts 1d. that :lltzlt'l; l mtt' wagon; tt'aus'l'crt'ed ottt' tl.c told. \Vc l-Hlltltl the Mr us, Scutyouov atul .\lat'io |