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"I'm told that Cook's have arranged to take over the officers club at Boulogne the minute the army has finished with it." said some body.
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I admitted my ignorance. "Most remarkable?" he murmured. "However, that's what we did took over everything right from the A M.L.O. to the Inst double apron fence. We tried hard to get the retention, for our use, of three German divisions included in the peace terms. Unfortunately that fell through we are compelled to make private arrangements with the German Republic for the hiring of rean adequate supply of Boche. Still, in every other particular we have been successful. Our train service and lines of communication are per- fect-it takes at least 48 hours to get anywhere at all, as you may have noticed. Our MT. service is accurately reproduced right to the The dug-out in last breakdown. which our clients are housed on their arrival ไก the line ultimate are the last word in discomfort. Each client receives two whole packets of Ruby Queen cigarettes as his ration for a week, and at least one day out of seven is spent on bully beef and biscuits. And our night patrols and wiring parties, always on wet nights are a master piece of realism. In fact," he added
"And I saw an advertisement in the Times the other day," remarked a-third, "of sonte Johnny offering to sell land on the Menin road as a site for an hotel. Nice, cheerful place for a honeymoon that 'ud be, wouldn't it?"
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"Not for me," said the first speaker, "J'en ai soupe. It's bad
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to a large rat was combing its road. Is there any more Scotch in whiskers on the bed, "every incon- that bottle, Protector of the Faith-venience that money can buy has ful?"
been secured for our patruns."
And do they really appreciate your efforts?" I inquired.
of
The conversation lapsed. The seed, however, had fallen upon gcod ground.
Prodigiously Obviously, if you My whole progress from London want to see the scene of the war the had been a vague and deepening mys best way is to see it as it was when stery as far as I was concerned the war was in progress. And, you see we spare no pains to make the had found myself directed to this
fusion effective. Why, we even place, pushed into that, and in the have special classes where our end had resigned myself to following, customers are instructed in French meekly and without question, the rest as she is spoken in the estaminets-
phrases like "Madame, of the crowd. Adopting this prin- simple ciple on disembarking. I had ulti- this vin bank is no bon." "My pal is beaucoup zig-zag te swar" mately found myself, not at the or 'Oofs and chips, mamelle
Occasionally Customs offices as I had expected. :-comblong?" but dealing, through a hole in a course, a client fails to enter into the small wooden but, with a spirit of the thing and complains of most indubitable R.T.0. It what he considers excessive hardship. all very odd. And bdder still. But a few days" E.P. No. 1 usually when he informed me that I must works wonders with such people. report at the station at five o'clock And, of course, as we have sole for the train for Etaples, for my own charge of the British front, if you intention had been ten days in Paris want to see it at all you must see it i and I should have perferred the our way. "Though I fancy," he added with a frown, "that there are a certain number of trespassers who I will not worry you with the
have footed it up the L. of C., and details of the journey. My cattle truck was not more uncomfortable spent their time lorry-hopping from to place behind the than most: and at times I am place
and living On eggs certain we achieved a speed of twelve line miles per hour. At Etaples I was and chips at the estaminets. I consigned to St. Pol. At St. Pol my must get this- His words were I was listening with papers were examined, and after a lost on me.
express.
was
But, heavens above.".I protested, you don't
Oh yes, of course we do. Every Monday and Thursday nights our tame Boche put over quite an ex Tuesdays and cellent little Hate. favourable. We don't get many ac Saturdays, gas provided the wind's
cidents as long as people will wear their S.B.R.'s and keep under cover.
five hours' wait I was dispatched to horror to a deepening scream. A Hazebrouck. Hazebrouck informed second later it collapsed in a huge crr-ump," I should say well within где that should have been alsewhere, and bundled me south 500 yards of our shelter. for the Somme. At the end of four days travelling "1 found myself reporting to an amiable en- ough official in a dug-out situated, as far as I could determine (for I had been guided on foot through dark ness and a downpour of rain over the last seven kilometres), several miles beyond Freinicourt. My papers were examined once more, and I was addressed by a name that was not familiar to me. Curious as bad been. my recent adventures, it seemed to me as well, if they were to be con- tinted, that I should meet them under my own name and proper identity. therefore ventured to correct my interrogator.
"But who are you?" he demanded with some. surprise.
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I explained that I was a simple tourist, travelling for pleasure and, had hoped, in the direction of Paris.
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western front."
The whole line had broken out in a Inever got my next inquiry framed. barage of heavy stuff-the skyline danced and flickered in front, and just behind us I saw an S.0.S. burst into the darkness. Simultaneously there did not pass over. With a roar beyond was a scream that deepened-ard all description the entrance of the dug-out dissolved into blinding dame and I sat up, in daylight and in bed, just in time to see my batman picking ap the tin washing bow! he had dropped.
As a matter of fact I had begun to recognize the thing as a nightmare even before I was roused. But I wonder if there would really be any money in the idea?
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