ONE OF OURS Ry WILLA LATHER. Famous Nebraska Author. 0 on tinned I rom \ r»»t«>rdHj • > M * laud# W liwlcr, son of a Nebraska rancher, finds no happiness in wedded life with I'.uiil Hover. religiously cold daughter of •fason Hoy re. Frankfort, Nei». miller. After a year and a half to gether she goes to t hi.in wliere her younger sister, taroline, a missionary, is ill < laude goes to Haloing camp and is commissioned a lieutenant. < in tide had three years at a small dem-minational college in V.lneoln. wliere he became a friend of the Lrlieh family. motherly widow mid file sons. lie lias friends in I rnest Havel and Leonard Haw son. young Nebraska farmers and neighbors of the Wheeler family. lie has an elder brother, tiayliss. in business in Frankfort. Ids fa ther. Nat. and a younger brother. tt.-ilph. Miiile home on len\e from rump lie falls in lute with ttladvs Farmer, high school friend of his wife. lie leaves with his company for Fniropr. \rri\lng at a French port, lie is billeted with another young \meriean lieutenant, Herhardt. in the home of M mid Madame Jouhert. After two weeks of intensive training i Itinde leaves with his company for the front. lie and his fellow officers arc at battalion licud<|iiarters, near the front line. BOOK FIVE—CHAPTER IX. The following night, Claude was sent back to Division Headquarters .it Q - with information the Colonel diil not care to commit to paper, lie s* t oft at 10 o'clock, with Sergeant Dicks for escort. There had been two days **f rain, and the communica tion trenches were almost knee deep m water. About half a mile back of the front line, the two men crawled out of tile ditch and went on above ground. There was very little shell ing along the front that night. When a flare went up, they dropped and lay on their fines, trying, at tin* same time, to get a squjnt at wii.it was ahead of them. The ground was rough, and the darkness thick: it was past midnight w hen they reached the east-and west road—usually full of traffle, and not entirely deserted even on a night like this. Trains of horses were splashing through the mud. with shells on their backs, empty supply wagons were coming hack from the front. Claude and Hicks paused by the ditch, hop ing to get a ride. The rain began to fall with such violence that they looked about for shelter Stumbling this way an\l that, they ran into a big artillery piece, the wheels sunk over the hubs in a mud hole. "Who's there?" called a quick voice, unmistakably British. "American infantrymen, two of us. Cun we get onto one of your trucks till this lets up?" "Oh, certainly! We can make loom for you in here, if you’re not too Mu Speak .quietly, or you’ll waken the Major." Giggles and smothered laughter: a flashlight winked for a moment and showed a line of five trin ks, the front and rear ones covered with tarpaulin tents. The voices came from th# shelter next the gun. The men in side drew ii|t their legs and made • room for the strangers: said they were sorry they hadn't anything dry to offer them except a little rum. The Intruders accepted this gratefully. The Britishers were a giggly lot, and Claude thought, from their voices, they must all be very young. Th»y joked about their Major as if he were their schoolmaster. There wasn't ; room enough on the truck for any body to lie down, so they sat with their knees under their chins and *x changed gossip. The gun team be longed to an independent battery that was sent about over the epuntry, "wherever needed." Tjje rest of the battery had got through, gone on to the east, but this big gun was always getting into trouble; now something bad gone wrong with her tractor and they couldn't pull her out. They called her "Jenny," and said she was taken with fainting lits now and then, and hud to he humoured. It was like going about wilh your grandmother, one ofthe invisible Tommies said, "she is such a pompous old tiling!" The Major was asleep on the rear truck: lie was going to get the V. C. for sleeping. More giggles. No, they tiadn’t any idea where they were going; of course, the oflleers knew, hut art-Mrry officers never told anything. What was ibis country like, anyhow? They were new to ibis part, had just come down from Yer dnn. Claude said he had a friend in the nr service up there; did they happen to know anything about Victor Morse? Morse, the American ace? Hadn't he heard? Why, that got into the 1 sin do n papers. Morse was shot down inside the Hun line three weeks ago. It was a brilliant affair. He was chased by eight. Iioche planes, brought down thr.. them, nut the rest to flight and was making for base, when they turned and goi him. His machine came down in flanips and he jumped, fell a thousand feet or more. "Then I suppose he never got Ids leave?" Claude asked. They didn't know. He got ,, tine citation. Tin- men settled down to wait fur !' ■ weather to improve or the ; _J * ROSE, SHRUB AND TREE SALE LAST CALL—FINAL CLEAN-UP 75c Hardy 3-Year Everbloom ing Hoses, Ophelia Yellow, Killarney White, American Beauty Red. each.IJoC 5? 1.00 Climbing Roses, ca 750 25c 2-Year Bridal Wreaths, White, each.10* 40e 2-Year Bridal Wreaths, Pink, each .1302.60 or Over IROM a TILL 3 r M EXTRA SPECIAL Large 2hr ran Potted Meat, ai long a« it laata, can .. 5c Another Shipment Juat Receive*!. v MACARONI-SPAGHETTI and Pur* EGG NOODLES Meat Specials Li*t I'm k Ron*t. Il» . . 91 .,t I reh Hreaaed Chicken*, lb 17'.c I re*h Pork < hop*. II* . 14b,«. I-'-* Milk led Chicken**, Ih. 48( Yearling I amb l eg*, lb. . . . I7' iC steer Steak.. lb...1 7 1 ,e Steer Porterhouse Steak. 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That w;is one of the tilings about tills war: it took n little fellow from a little town, gave him an air and a swagger, a life like a movie film, and then a death like the rebel angels. A man like Gerhardt, for instance, had always lived in a more or less rosi colored world: he belonged over here, really. How could he know what hard moulds and crusts the big guns had broken open on the other side of the sea? Who could ever make him understand how far It was from the strawberry bed and the glass cage in tin* bank, to the sky-roads Over Verdun? By :i o'clock tiie rain had stopped, Claude and Hicks set off Hgain. ac companied by one of the gun team who was going back to gel help for their tractor. As it began to grow light, the two Americans wondered more and more at tiie extremely youthful appearance of their com panion. When they stopped at a shellhole and washed the mud from their faces, the ISnglish boy, with his helmet off and the weather stains re moved, showed a countenance nf adolescent freshness, almost girlish: cheeks like pink apples, yellow curls above Ins forehead, long. soft. la-di« “You haven't been over very long, have you?" Claude askcrl In a fatlu*i ly tone, as Ihey took the road again "I came out in T6. 1 was formerly in the infantry." The Americans liked to hear him talk; h** spoke very quickly, in a high, piping voice. “How did you come to change?" “Oh. I belonged to one of the Pal Battalions, and we got cut. to pieces. When 1 came out of hospital. I thought I’d try another branch of the service, seeing my pals were gone." “Now. just what is a Pal Bat talion?" drawled Hicks. He hated all English words he didirt understand, though lie didn’t mind French ones in the least. “Fellows who signer! up together from school," the lad piped. Hicks glanced at Claude. They both thought this hoy ought to be in school for some time .vet, and won dered what he. looked like when he first came over. “And you got cut up, you say?" he asked syinputheticaly. “Yes. on the Somme. Wo had rot ten luck. We were sent over to take a trench and couldn't. We didn’t even get to the wire. The Hun was so well prepared that time, we couldn't manage it. We went over a thousand, and we came back seven teen." “A hundred and seventeen?" “No, seventeen.'’ Hicks whistled and again ex changed looks with Claude. They could neither of them doubt him. There was something very unpleasant about the idea of 1,000 fresh f aced schoolboys being sent out against the gunw. "It must have been a fool or der." he commented. “Suppose there was some mistake at headquarters " "Oh. no, headquarters knew what 1; \ . bylll! VVr'd have l iken it. ,f we'd had any s it of luck. Hut the Hun happened to lie fill of light. His innehino guns did for ns," "You were hit yourself?' Claude asked him. "In tiuydeg. He was popping away at me all the while, but 1 wriggled back on my tummy. When 1 tame out of the hospital my leg wasn't strong, and there's le.-s marching In tlie artillery. "I should think you'd have had about enough.” "'dp a fellow can't stay out after all his chums have been killed! He'd think about it all Hie time, you knmv," the boy replied in his clear treble. Claude and Hicks got into head quarters jus! as the cooks were turn ing old to build their lire*, one of the Corporals took them to the ofli cers' bath, a shed with big tin tubs. tifiifrul Information. I’hnnr 'I r. Kk, 11% 1325. Stores Will Be Closed Memorial Day Saturday Specials COFFEE Hpeular loc ini* AA lie, nen pound triiaranfi't-d, ll>.. OURTESY N» use to tiorry about tour many nants for the table. I lie members of the llanily Sen ice Stores hate suited jour problem. I hey hate Relented a number of staple articles from their stock and are offering them to you for Saturday. 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