The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-05-04

soon," they said, and they'll want
something hot to eat"
But while they were doing this an
artillery colonel who had his guns
near the village heard about them.
He Immediately sent a blackboard with
two big Missouri mules hitched to it
and sergeant to order them to leave
the village and go to the rear. As the
sergeant reached the old mill hell
! broke loose again all over the village
and all around 1t, but ne delivered the
word, and since the Mcintyre girls
were under military rules they per.
force left their dough on the fire and
clambered into the blackboard. From
the way the shells were falling it didn't
seem, when the sergeant started the
mules down the road out Of the vii
lage, that they had a chance in the
world to reach safety. But the SER
geant was an old soldier He knew
that the Boche artillery broke high
explosive shells alongside the road and
shrapnel over 1t, and he also knew
that ambulances travelling at top
speed could go along shell swept roads
that were sure death to a column of
slow marching troops. So he whipped
the mules into a run and the buck
board tore down the road, with shells
falling on either side and shrapnel
! breaking overhead and with pieces Of
steel rafting off their helmets.
They got several kilometers behind
Ansouville and out OF the zone of in
tensified shell fire. and the sergeant
stopped the blackboard and sought ad-
vice as to whether they had best go to
division headquarters or stop at the
nearest regmental headquarters.
Let's go back to Ansouyille." sur-
gested Gladys.
You're crazy" said the sergeant
Ihat town Is right in the middle of
the fighting"
True Feminine Persistence.
Wei, we're going back, anyway"
insisted Gladys. Il left a lot of dough
on the fire and I'm going to cook the
rest OF those doughnuts. The BOYS
need them"
The sergeant argued and pleaded
ana vowed that his orders were to take
them away from the town, but TO no
avail. The Mcintyre sisters wanted
to get back: the soldiers needed hot
things to drink and hot things to eat.
and back they intended to go. SO the
sergeant turned his buckboard and
they started back toward the fighting.
They got as far as a crossroads
where they met group OF y. NJ. c.
a. workers who said it was too dam
gerous to go further. And about that
time the German artillery got the
range OF the crossroads and began
throwing over shells. SO the SER
Seant turned his blackboard into the
woods and the mules galloped pell
nell among the trees. The girls
finally found a field hospital and since
1t was impossible to cook anything
there they went to work helping the
wounded. They did this nearly all
day, until finally one Of the surgeons
noticed that Irene could hardly talk.
and under pressure she told him OF
being gassed. SO she was sent to the
hospital, while GLADYS went back TO
her douShnuts and her apple pie as
soon as the German attack was over.
And not long afterward the General
of the division began getting reports
from his officers about the work the
Mcintyre girls had done with the
Twenty sixth, and lie talked TO some
OF them and to some of the soldiers
who knew what they had done at An
souville. And so pretty soon there came
from division headquarters this eta
ton, which has been read before the
assembled division of Camp Devens: