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There was a question to settle, and it was for Henri to do it Two

questions indeed One was a , and before the botto The second was

had happened Of all the trenches to be held,

the Belgians had undeniably the worst Properly speaking they were not

trenches at all, but shallow gutters dug a foot or two into the saturated

ground and then built s of earth or sand Here and

there they were not dug at all, but were purely shelters, against a

railway es, and reinforced by rails from

the deserted track behind which they were hidden

For this corner of Belgiu it into a shallow

lake By opening the gates in the dikes the Allies had let in the sea

and placed a flood in front of the advancing ene ar a foot was to encounter water Machine guns here and

there sat but six inches above the yellow flood Men lay in pools to

fire thes of

earth--a life, so was