New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-05-14

stood for while motionless, stiff and forbid
ding, and then disappeared. When he awoke
he was breathless and his temples felt moist
and Shiny, as if his head had emerged from
the waters of some gloomy, stagnant lake.
At that time even though he had not fully
recovered, his impotence drove him back to
the front-in order to be there, where every
one was expected to do his uttermost, but also
in the hope of escaping those horrible dreams.
For at the first, he recalled clearly in the few
hours on which he was off duty, he fell at once
into deep, dreamless sleep. 1t nrattered not
whether he threw himself, half undressed or
not undressed at ALL into his easy chair, rolled
himself in his sleeping sack dropped off
doing just as he stood in the open field.
And what elastic energy pulsed through his
body! An unshadowed self-confdence pos
sessed him. His eye was as keen as a falcons.
He flew through the bullet-slashed air with an
Intoxicating sense of sureness which he himself
often wondered at. The death-bringing shrap-
mel clouds, which stood out white against the
blue and so often fanked his course, seemed to
him as picturesque and harmless as blooming
apple trees along country road.
And now once more these Authorizations
This breakdown Of his nerves! He must over
come tat any cost. This evening he would
take dose of bromo. But perhaps it would
be sufficient if he once again tired himself to
the point of exhaustion.
To-day more was 10 be done than simply to
locate hostile batteries or observe the artillery
fire of his own side. Lieutenant Won StefTeck
and he had received yesterday evening orders
from division headquarters to investigate some
movements of hostile troops which had already
been noticed by patrols but had been covered
by violent artillery demonstrations
The task imperative. The German posi-
tons were here well advanced, forming wedge
driven into the French line. The village of
c. had been stormed. From day to day a
counter attack was awaited from the enemy,
which had fought here with extraordinary te-
nacity. Most of the trenches could be stormed
only after they had been bombarded by mine
throwers or with hand grenades But the at
tacking troops were also extremely exhausted
and scarcely in a condition to resist an often
sive directed at their partially consolidated po-
sitions.
With a start Lieutenant Wegehaupt threw
the covers back and sprang out Of bed. He did
not feel particularly fresh after SUCH night.
But it would be better to run around a little
bit than to lie awake and struggle against
gloomy thoughts.
'You don't look particularly blooming Nazi,"
he said. While making his toilet he looked at
himself in the three-cornered mirror and made
a grimace at his image in the glass. Before
the war he was thin as hound, but never like
this Above all, there was an accursed witch
ing under his right eyelid--something he had
not noticed before
Perhaps IT was just well that Won Steffeck
vas to steer the apparatus to-day. He, himself
BEING better acquainted with the region, was 10
axe the maps and make the observations. Stef-
eek was not particularly safe pilot, but wa
man Of envable robustness Of soul.
Day before yesterday he had arrived from
General headquarters with new l.. b. G..
ouble-decker.