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The above Property will be sold by Public Auction at PHU-THO (Tonkin) The past few days have been a very on the 1st day of September, 1917. worrying time för one particular sniper Hundred Thousand Dollars Indo-China

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look after him_so" dévotedly."** Ho'a o the successful carrying out of the feat good chap, old Mac, he murmured to implied, and as he moved down the trench himself. Treats me as though I were he could not help congratulating him- his prodigal son.**

self that such super-snipers as Falconer 'Janð Adam were members of his section.

The false dawn had left the skies, and now the real Bush of the morning was That morning round was one great lighting up the landscape. Halfway up pleasure to the officer; not only from the the trench the ground fell away sharply interest of the work, but from the know- to the right, and the officer turned to look ledge of the mutual appreciation existing but little, and this night his sleep had at the ruined towers of Ypres showing between himself and his men. Their's Farther particulars may be obtained" on application to the undersigned.

been all the heavier in consequence. Hep dimly against the murky west Black was a true brotherhood, in which the had sombre and broken, yet with an binding ties of discipline were overlaid CH. DE LANSALUT,

simëd harply to have fain down, when appeal to the eye and soul so deep in by the bonds of friendship between every Solicitor for the Liquidators shibok him by the shoulder and pathos that, uf-all the haunting scenes ia member. But now a vague feeling of

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The sniper slowly raised hitself from the rude sandbag-covered ledge of clay which formed his conch. He was cold and-gii and sick; the sandbags which covered him were damp, und dimy to touch í litulé rivulets of moisture streaked the smoothed-out surface of the clay walls, and every dating of the corrugated iron roaf untributed n stream of con deased vapors to ferd the drops which hung from the door litel, and, at regular Home Sweet Home intervals, overborne by their increasing weight, plonk plonked dully into the puddle collecting at the dag-out entrance. It was a miserable, morning and the sniper's mond was in keeping. But with an effort he tossed the sandbags Baide, and

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that picture of Ypres with the mists of He could not account for it, and sirove the morning wating about its shattered to banish it from his consciousness; but turrets, will linger longest in the memory. ever the feeling returned, until the con- MANILA. Mecera Masondray

of all who have seen it. He fait would|viction hardened in his mind that some! have waited to see the splendour of the mischance was about to happen. The rising sun reflected from a hundred sky was gradually elonding over, and but he dragged himself away, and huriwhich the lines of the trench were becom- pionscles of glittering, splintered stone, darkness descending on the earth in

up the trench. For to the sniper the ing more and more blurred. and the dawn is a harvest time.

forms of the occupants but shades amid the shadows. Then suddenly he found himself alone and in blackness, and he cried out aloud in bitterness, as conscious

.

At the head of the communication trench the sniping sergeant was waiting for him with the first morning report:"

**Adam and Grant caught a workingness came back to him. party in the open by Sniper's Barn," Air," he said. They me three for certain. Everything he is quiet mound, and a lot of fresh wire in front There's new work to the right of the of Carter's post,"

"

I'll take a look at that first, Sergeant. Go ahead," said the officer,

A light-Rashed beside him, and

woman's voice, said Hush Mr. Smith. Is anything the matter 7''

Looking up, he saw the right sister of the ward beading over his bed.

It's all right, Sister, he said. and he turned his face to the darkness I've just been remembering things,"

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All along the line the officer went,

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STEEL, METAL and "HAND German line for himself. Every bit of again, but the winter did not go away, and Rastal Irodaongeal Store The light was instantly switched out WARE MEPORANTS. Wholesale information he jotted down against its She unobtrusively took up a position near Foundry Coke Imposters Geners! Store compass bearing, adding a rough note by to watch him. For she knew what En Lood 228m (2nd Street, wort keppers and Shipchandlere 595"-35" And on its significaree to form the basis of it was for a man to wake up and just of Central Market) Telephone No, 515, his log-book entries later on. But in spite remember thing," from a dream where Homerong September 4, 1915. *-*. of the strict formality of the business. the old days have been lived over again there was ever a "Good morning!" and a smile exchanged between officer and awakening to the realisation that these and the old comrades "spoken with," each man, and sometimes & quiet jest a comrules are no more comes with all the c. for the cult of the rifle made these shock of fresh bereavement For Mac

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and the amper was at home, a tan was dead, and Adam, and Falconer also;

broken in the wars.

mea all comrade

Tuaming dowă ʼn stretch of trench, the The piper gulped it down gratefully. officer came on one of his mes coolly sim "Where are my gum-boots, Mac?ing over the parapet without rentige

ke called after the disappearing orderly. of cover to protect him. He was directly under the fire of two German eniping posta. Yet he stood there, head and shoulders above the parapet,, rigid as the

Mac reappeared with the boots. "I've nd then drying near the brazier, sir,

| he said. They'd got pretty wet inside.''

i candbags-on which he we reiting, writ-

**I'll have breakfast ready at nine-ing his chance to fre. At length his shot Sir." the orderly continued, after the rane ent and with a gasp of relief the sincer had drawn on the gum-boots and officer saw him jump down into the was preparing to go out. I've borrowed trench

some egg from A Company, and I'll Don's take a risk like that again, cpen, the tinned bacon

Faleozer, he said sharply

Good Mac. You think of avery.. thing," said the aniper, making towards

Traces of his anxiety were still showing his face and the sniper obviously

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