The Mena weekly star., 1918-07-04
tCcntinued from last week.

,oadv to go. to his death. The shells were bursting all around the guard room, but he hardly noticed them.
 While waiting there, the voice of the sansry. singing in a low tone, came to kfm. He was singing the chorus of the popular trench ditty:
 want to go home. I want to go home. f don't want to go to the trenches no
 more.
 Where the ''whizzbangs'' and ''sausages"
 roar galore.
 fake me over the sea, where the Ailemand oh my. don't want to disi want to 60
 home.
 Lloyd listened to the words with grange interest, and wondered what hfnd of home he would go to across he Great Divide. It would be the only Asme he had ever known.
 Suddenly there came great rushing through the air. blinding, a deafen- hg report, and the sandbag walls Of he guardroom toppled over, and then --blackness.
 MHtU lIUlu EGtONClCu NOn9N1VQc~ sess, he was lying on his right side, facing what used to be the entrance of Ae guardroom. Now, 1t was only ABmble of rent and torn sandbags. Ills head seemed bursting. He slowly rose Q his elbow, and there in the east the Aawn was breaking. But what was kat mangled shape lying over there wnong the sandbags? Slowly dragging amself to 1t, he saw the body of the sntry. One look was enough to know EAat he was dead. The soldiers head vss missing. The sentry had had his wssh gratlfied. He had "gone home" Re wRs safe at last from the "whizz- bangs" and the Allemand.
 Like flash 1t came to Lloyd that he was free. Free to go lover the top" with his company. Free to die like Eue Briton fighting for his king and country. A great gladness and warmth same over him. Carefully stepping syer the body of the sentry, he started m mad race down the ruined street 6 the village, amid the bursting shells, minding them not. dodglng through or around hurrying platoons on their way te also go lover the top." Coming to communication trench he could not get through. It was blocked with laugh Ing, cheering and cursing soldiers. Climbing out of the trench, he ran wildly along the top, never needing the rain of machine-gun bullets and shells. not even hearing the shouts of the of Beers. telling him to get back into the trench. He was going to join his com pany who were in the front line. He vss going to fight with them. He, the oespised coward, had come into his ewm.
 while he was racing along, jumping over trenches crowded with soldiers. a ringing cheer broke out all along the front hne, and his heart sank. He Knew he was too late. His company mad gone over. But still he ran nadly. He would catch them. He would die with them.
 Meanwhile his company had gone "over." They, with the other com. panies had taken the first and second verfhan trenches, and had pushed steadily on to the third line. D com pany' led by their captain, the one who Aau sent Lloyd to division headouar- ters for trial. charged with desertion. aad pushed steadily forward until they round themselves far in advance of ne rest or the attacking force. Bomb Ing out trench after trench. and using "ear Dayonets, they came to a German communication trench, which ended in
 oundsap, and then the captain, and what was left of his men, knew ther were In a trap. They would not rr- u'e D company never retired, and nes were D company. Right in front VI them they could see hundreds of uernians preparing to rush them with oolno and bayonet. They would have eoine chance if ammunition and bombs ,"u'u reach them from the rear. Their o"ppy was exhausted, and the men 'ea'zed 1t would be case of dying as oravely as possible, or making a run tI II. But D company would not run 1t was against their traditions snu principles.
 ne 1ermans would have to advance shoss an open space of three to four -anu'ed yards before they could get "'unh bombing distance of the trench 'r ,heh It would be all their own way. gaid ''e shp'ath ',eh' us a case of going West for we are out of ammunition and shnS, and the Boches have us in n sV. They will bomb us out. Our seonets are useless here. We will a'e to go over and meet them. md case of thirty to one, so send
 thrust home, and die like the a,en or D company should. When I
 V 'ne word. follow me, and up and
 hem- Give them h-l Lord. if w, ou'y mad machine gun, we could ,aas 'hein outl Here they come. get . sust as he finished speaking. the well ne pup-pup'' of q machine gun In -. renr rang out, and the front line - Ae onrushing Germans seemed to ,aa' away. They wavered. but once aih came rushing onward Down vra .neir second line. The machine sE was taking an awful toll of lives. tha asain they tried to advance. but h.. nachine gun moved them down Arpns thelr rifles and bombs. .hev ~Ae and fled i, n .,.s,s "