The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1918-10-26
ST. PAUL AND MINNEAPOLIS MINI.

mans and an American as good as
dead in Berlin. So let her CO..
He tried to raise his head and
look around.
"'Never mind, boy, you got them
ALL ] assured him.
"'Any-any chance for me, door he
said.
Il didn't answer and he knew. His
remaining hand crept beneath his
blood-soaked tunic, gripped something
tight and stayed there. After a mo-
ment he spoke again.
"'Doc,' he said, you know all the
boys around our square. 1 wish they
could know I was game.
"'And, doc,' his voice was weaker
will you-will you tell my mother
had-1 had this when-I went
SLOWLY his hand came out; slowly
1t opened; that boys hand strangely
old and worn with the bloodstains and
CRIME. Slowly it opened and there in
the blackened palm glistened a tiny,
bright silver crucifx. He was dead"
Won't Stop Fighting.
It's Chaplain Hanley who tells the
story of the Sixty-ninth. They refer
to the chaplain as holding the clerical
record for mileage in No Mans land.
They can't keep him off patrols. Chap
lain Hanley knows the story of most
Of the casualties of the Sixty-ninth.
He substantiates the statement that
not man has been killed or wounded
by German bayOnet, notwithstanding
the regiment has encountered in pitch
ed and open battle three Of the five
divisions of the Prussian Guard at one
time and another Of it's career. Need
less to say, the Prussiau Guard div1s-
lon can make no such boast. Father
Hanley says the hardest time they
have with casualties in the Sixty-ninth
Is to make them stop fighting when
they're hit. He is himself Just recov-
ering from wounded leg.
1.-THE officers are as bad as the men,"
he declares. 1.-THE day I cot this
wound was working up with Captain
Hurley's company. They'd been driv-
en- back little by a vicious German
barrage and they were on little ridge.
They'd got orders to hold it, and they
did, for four days. When they left it
they went ahead.
"Wel, I was up there this day and
heard of a wounded man ahead and
little to one side, just over the edge
OF the hill toward the German lines.
told the captain I'd better 20 to him
To
men to help me. declined and start
ed off by myself, crawling on my stom-
ach underneath stream of machine
gun bullets that would have clipped
me had raised on my elbow.
I'D gone perhaps so yards when I
heard rustic in the grass behind me,
and there were two of Hurley's boys.
They said the captain had sent them
to carry me back if anything happened.
Now listen to the rest Of it. I sent
them chasing back to their company
and crawled ahead. Just as I got to
this ridge the bullet got me. My
wounded man was across an open
space and I knew couldn't get to him.
1 was afraid if waited till dark I'd
bleed to death, so put a tourniquet
Oh my leg and started back.
Forgot About Wound.
Nov all Of this is just preliminary.
They got me back to hospital a day
later and I'd hardly got settled in my
cot when who should they put down
in the cot next to me but Captain Hur-
ley himself. he was badly smashed
up in the leg, too. The leg had been
dressed at the dressing station and
when they got him settled they started
to take off his clothes. AS they pulled
at his shirt he let out howl.
1.-The shirt was stuck to his chest
with blood. He had a wound there
that the doctors at the dressing sta
ton had never discovered.
"Why, captain said the doctor,
looking puzzled at the casualty tag,
it doesn't say anything about the chest.
When did you get this oneT
"'What day is this?' asked the cap
tain.
Wednesday, said nurse.
"tNow, let's see,' said the captain.
chaplain, you were up there yester-
day. I must have got this on Mon
day.
"All the time he'd been sending men
out to take care of me he'd had that
hole in his own chest and the shirt
frozen over his big heart with his own
blood.
YOU'RE a captain I said to him.
You're always cautioning the boys to
report wounds and get them cared for.
You stayed up there two days and you
never even told me about it,
Honest, chaplain he replied, =
forgot all about it. You know we had
orders to hang onto that dinky hill.
And we were awful busy"
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