Evening star., 1917-11-11

Who did it?" asks of Sully.
The enemy" says he.
sEh?" says l. gaspy.
Later on | got the facts. 1t seems
some of the young toughs from the
works had tried to guy Sarello L ex-
pect he'd been a bit chesty as he'd
staggered past 'em in his uniform,
Thered been words passed and once
Joe had gone SO far as to hook on his
bayonet and jab couple Of 'em
sort OF easy. Anyway, they'd had 1t in
for him. and tonight they'd made up
their minds to get square They had.
Bat how did you come to be with
him?" 1 asks Sully.
Il wanted to see the night tour"
says he. Joe said he'd take me. but
when l got there he'd gone on duty.
The sergeant said l might go out and
find him on this post, and when / came
up they was all around him, kickin' an
an sluggin' him."
And you didn't run back to tell Gal.
vin?" says 1.
NO" says he tt let 'em have IL,
pop
"wha-a-t," SAYS I. with the rife?"
only two Shots" says he. land I
amt sure I hit any of 'em. but-but
thew beat it."
HIM -m-m!" says I. No wonder.
Them % longs can sting some at close
range"
"You-you amt mad with me, are
yor. pop. for doin' it?" he asks.
No" says J. 'I guess that was -the
only thing to do in that case. I hone yn,,
winged one. anyway. And your friend
here is comm arou-d. 7 guess: he's he
e,nnin' to eroan. Think YOU could find
YOUR wav to the camp and get some OF
'e-, out here7
Sergeant Galvin'n be comm soon.
pop." says Su!ly. I've signaled-with
the rife. Won know. They'll hear"
hod nd yx-ft1
WINS pocket flash we discovered that
Private Sorello hadn't become uufte
r'retctr- case. He'd been beat u' @~ettv
thorough. and k'c! on the law had nut
hfr1 out for a while. hut before long he's
able TO stand wabbly. with the help OF ono
Of his mates.
~avs thn sa-geant. of 1t hadn't heen for
Surlv Thrfs some boy you've got there.
Mr. Mcr'abc. He ought 70 get mentioned
in ~nrera1 orders for this"
''What he needs lust now is hot bath
and boil" saws 7. piclin' SulIv uD. gun and
all. and startin' for the roadrter.
Ar i,o-,n found NOT only Sadie ard
Mother Wl-alev waitin- for US but Whit
+'a and thraA or four more from the meet
IN. T',ns~d got kind of excited after
left and had come up TO see how The
n~ci1 vas Drogressin'
When Sadie sees IFS she don't stop to aS'S
any questions at all. She inst onens her
arms and folds him in. muddy and vet as
he Is don't think she even noticed that
I has to sketch out for Whittle and tho
rest how I found Sully and what he. was
doir'
.Pv caa-:-e" saws whittle 'Opened
,,,, on t'-o,r- -.-f.', his little fifn did he7
Srle,d.d, TrrA-e's the real soldier e-ufr
for Won or~-''tn'-'e, And only te- What
n ,:tr .r,"-ho, We nand 'en like that,
sir We -..,e' -r,n,rl for our army
''9o yo-, ~ Sadie easlles out "Trdeed :"
SIZE ,.,,v@ If '.art'v under her breath.
tho,,c', nd Whittle'c busy hear,in'
aror-a that don't think he noticed I
wae kid Of glad he didn't. too.
For -icr',t there begun to set his drirt
and ,-4iae It wasn't Just natrfotic h',r'l
witt V.,itt|a He meant every word o.
II. Hadn't he sent his own boy? And that
must have meant lot to hin1-I could see
now.
Suppose it was Sully WHO was out bat
tin around in an old tub of a trawler cf
Sandy Hook and next month might be
eunr,in' for subs, or bein' gunred after?
SuDDose he was one of them Plattshures
boys who before Christmas might -hs
leadin' squad of bonbers over the top
Or IL he was with Young Brad Gates un
half a mile in the air practicin' tail dfvfn' ?
How would we feel about it. Sadie and
me- sittin' here at home. waitin for news?
Say. all at once ! knew.
And" as / explains later to Sadie. "ie
that kind of f1ghtin's got TO be done. which )
it looks like it had. somebody's boys have
got to do 1t. haven't they
"I don't care" says Sadie. I'm glad
it icn't to be Sully.''
Same here" says I, hearty. Besides
amt sorry he did. either. Tits sort OF
given me hunch. feel different about
Whittle. I expect this is our war. too.
Eh SadieTs .sE .tss... ss.s17.s;