S GUN--AND AFTER 163

19. WHAT THEY LEARNED ON THE GERMAN TELEPHONE 173

20. THE LAST RUNG OF A BROKEN LADDER 183

21. VON DUSSEL'S REVENGE 191

22. THE ROW IN THE RESTAURANT 200

23. "GAS!" 210

24. THE CHATEAU AT THE TRENCH END 219

25. FROM KITE BALLOON TO SADDLE 229

26. UNDER THE GERMAN EAGLE 240

27. ON THE PART DENNIS PLAYED IN THE RECAPTURE OF BIACHES 247

28. THE EXCITING ADVENTURES OF "CARL HEFT" 255

29. AN OLD FRIEND--AND A BITTER ENEMY! 265

30. UNDER THE ENEMY WALL 275

31. WITH DASHWOOD'S BRIGADE 284

32. THE REWARDS OF VALOUR 295

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

"THE COMMANDANT THREW UP HIS ARMS AND PITCHED _Frontispiece_
BACKWARD; DENNIS DROPPED HIS WEAPON, CAUGHT HIM
AS HE FELL"

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"DENNIS FLUNG HIS BOMBS INTO THE SPACE AND
TREMENDOUS EXPLOSIONS ENSUED" 96

"BEFORE THE GERMANS REALISED WHAT WAS HAPPENING,
THERE WAS AN UGLY BIT OF BAYONET WORK" 150

"NOTHING COULD CHECK THE VICTORIOUS RUSH" 286

WITH HAIG ON THE SOMME

CHAPTER I

An Uncensored Letter Read Aloud

Private Harry Hawke, of the 2/12th Battalion Royal Reedshire Regiment
(T.F.), sat on the step of the fire trench, his back against the
parapet, busy with the bolt of his rifle.

There were two things he loved more than anything else in life, and that
rifle was one of them. The other was his platoon commander, Captain Bob
Dashwood, who chanced to be coming along the communication at the
moment, and the Cockney private's eyes lit up as he saw him.

"Hallo, Hawke! All quiet?" said Captain Dashwood with a jerk of his head
in the direction of the German lines, only one hundred and twenty yards
across the mangled strip of Dead Man's Land that intervened.

"Quiet as the bloomin' grave, sir," replied Harry Hawke with a grin,
though he had almost to shout to make himself heard.

A howitzer b