The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1915-03-25
CHAPTER xix-centtavsa.

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Now the automatics and the rides
from the redoubt to which the Browns
had fallen back opened fire. 80
close together were these bullet-ma-
chimes that the orbit of each ones
swing made . spray Of only few
yards breadth over the redoubt. where
the Browns gun.fire had not for . mo-
ment ceased its persistent shelling.
with increasingly large and solid tar
gets Of flesh for their practice. The
thing for these targets to do. they
knew. was to intrench and begin to
return the infantry and automatics
fire. Desperately. with the last effort
pf courage. they rose in the attempt
rose into playing hose streams Of bul.
cts whose close hiss was q steady un-
iertone between shell bursts. In the
sarish. jumping light brave ofacers
mpulsively stood up to hearten their
commands In their work. and dropped
with half-uttered urgings. threats, and
'aths on their lips.
The bullets from the automatics
missing one mark were certain to ind
mother. perhaps four or Ave in . row.
such was their velocity and power Of
penetration. Where shells made gaps
md tore holes In the human mass. the
,utomatics cut with the regularity Of
he driven teeth of . comb. The men
who escaped all the forms Of slaughter
ind staggered on to the ruins Of the
'edoubt. pressed their weight ON top
If those In the craters or hugged be-
lind the pyramids Of debris. and even
made breastworks from the bodies Of
he dead. The more that banked up,
he more fruitless the efforts of the Of
icers to restore order in the frantic
medley Of shell screams and explosions
It ume when . minute seemed an
.ge.
Meanwhile, between them-this
sanked-up force at the charges end
and the Brown redoubt with its auto
natics. the Gray gunners were making
zone Of shell bursts in order to give
he soldiers time to make their hold
II the ground they had gained secure.
Through this sone Stransky and his
men were to lead the Browns in q
.ounter-attack.
At the very height of the Gray
charge, when all the reserves were in.
iark objects fell out of the heavens.
md where they dropped earth and
lesh were mingled In the maceration.
Ike some giant reptile with its YER
ebrae breaking. gouged and torn and
sinioned. the charge stopped, In writh-
ng, throbbing confusion. Those on
he outer circle Of explosions were
brown against their fellows, who.
urged back in another direction from
N explosion in the opposite quarter.
from the rear the pressure weakened;
he human hammer was no longer driv.
ng the ram. Blinded by the lightnings
md dust. dizzy from conclusions and
toise. too blank Of mind to be sane or
insane. the atoms Of the bulk of the
charge In natural instinct turned from
heir goal and toward the place whence
hey had come, with death from all
hdes still buffetins them. Staggering.
~. at first. they went, for want Of in.
tative in their paralysis; then rapidly,
- the law of self-preservation asserted
itself in wild impulse.
Az sheep driven over a precipice
they had advanced; as men they fed
There was no longer any command, no
longer any cohesion, except of LEGS
struggling in and out over the uneven
footing Of dsaA and wounded. while
they felt anothtr pressure. that of the
mass of the B'owns in pursuit. or all
those OF Ffrcasse's company whom
We know 7hly the judges son and
Jacob Pilxe1 were alive. Stained with
blood aud dust. his teeth showing in
grimA,:e of mocking hate Of all hu-
mankind. PLIERS savagery ran free of
the restraint of discipline and civilized
convention. Striking right and left.
he forced his way out of the region of
she'll fire and still kept on. Clubbing
his rifle, he struck down one officer
who tried to detain him; but another
ofticer. quicker than he, put a revolver
bullet through his head.
Westerling, who had buried his face
% his hands in Marta's presence at
the thought Of failure. must keen the
pose OF his position before the STAFF
With chin dawn in and shoulders
squared in sort of petrified military
habit. he received the feverish news
that grew worse with each brief bulle.
ein. He. the chief of staff; he, He'd.
worth Vesterling the superman. must
be rock in the flood of alarm. When
he heard that his human ram was in
recoii he declared that the repulse had
beeb exaggerated-repulses ALWAYS
weae. With word that a heavy counter