Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-06-12

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as it was Immediately followed by others as
rapidly as the men could reload their guns
Dick knew that from now on the firing would
be continuous. Owing to the speed of the
| onslaught the gunners were not firing so sue
| Cessfully, owing to the constantly changing
range. Buhammei's battery was steadily
| banging away; but so far had not placed
single effective shot.
| Back of the charging tribesmen on the
grass splotched sandy plain white figures
and horses could be seen twisting and with
ing and here and there riderless animals ran
| wildly backward and forward.
Up to this time there had been no rifle dis
charged from the Sultan's army, although
desultory firing and mostly without effect
had marked the advance of Buhammei's
forces. Now, as they approached the sandy
level back of the stream, along the entire line
| of the Sultan's army a rifle fire broke out
with what seemed to the American fairly
precise delivery. For a moment it appeared
as if, crowded on by their own weight, Blu
hammei's men would with horse and rider,
| fill the brook to the brim and ride across
their own dead; then in a splendid turn the
| whole front swirled like whirlpool which in
its revolution carried the white legions back
| from the zone of gunfire.
The Kaid's batteries were still firing at the
| of motion, their shells seemed badly timed.
| For so long a time the shrilling shells of Btu
| hammei's batteries had passed over their
| heads that Dick had grown unconscious of
| their noise Suddenly he was thrown to his
| feet and almost Immediately afterward heard
an explosion behind him. Half dazed he got
| to his knees and looked around. The Kaid
also was regaining his feet.
They're getting the range" he said inn
perturbably.
| DICK looked back where the shell had ex-
- ploded and saw that it had dropped at
| the edge of the little camp on the hill with Sc
| rious effect. One man was staggering blindly
| toward him with blood streaming from his
face, but suddenly pitched prone to the
ground with hands outstretched, and another
still conscious was feebly wrigglng his man.
| gled body around so that he might die facing
| that mysterious east the Mecca of the Mus
sulman's God The American, still on his
knees, stared down over the surrounding
plain. Everywhere were little spots in sug-
gestive motion,-a man supporting another
| to one of the tents, Others twisting convul-
sively on the ground, and still others lying in
deadly stiffness. The agonized screams of
wounded horses, the frenzied shouts of the
tribesmen in the rear, who were impatient
to move to the front, and the shrill COM
mands of officers holding their men stead
fast, made bedlam of sounds intermittent
with the constant boom of artillery. Buham-
meis men had found the range.
Immediately behind him Dick heard stem
torian yels and, running back to the edge
of the bluff, discovered Sid Suleyman, who
was directing force of men intent on drag
ging heavy Al howitzer up the sharp in
cline. He did not interrupt the scar faced
Captain; but the latter turned and gave
friendly grin.
Pretty soon l stop them," he said, and
then whirled back to deluge the unfortunate
soldiers with his choicest epithets. Dick,
unable to stand in idleness, ran down and
caught hold of the rope, tugging nightly
with the rest. They found breath to give
him a gasping cheer, and, as if his presence
had renewed their strength, brought the gun
up the slope with final rush. They showed
| it forward until it stood almost in front of
the headquarters tent, and Clarke looked
round and nodded approvingly. The bat
terry men jerked open the breech and threw
in a long, shining sixty-pound shell, and to
| Dicks surprise Sid Suleyman strobe in be-
tween the men and aimed the gun. The men
sprang back to avoid the immediate con-