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For three days thevital secrets that were of vast strategic value Then the es ceased, and the anxious officers and comrades looked in vain for word Two n that showed that he was alive, and the ent forth "Missing!" and "Missing" he was proclaiht there was a lull in the sector where Ca on across the wide dark space called No Man's Land The captain sent anxiousposts had no clue to give It was raining and a chill bias sleet that cut like knives was driving froouts, and sopped through the trenches, and the es and waited Only scattered artillery fire lit up the heavens here and there It was a night when all hell seemed let loose to have its ith earth The watch paced back and forth and prayed or cursed, and counted the minutes till his watch would be up Across the blackness of No Man's Land pock-ed a tempest, and even a Hun would turn his back and look the other way in such a storm

Slowly, oh so slow that not even the earth would knoas , there crept a dark creature forth froonelike a stone asevery muscle with a controlledunder the very nose of the guard without being seen for long one when next he passed that way; slowly, painfully gaining ground, with a track of blood where the stones were cruel, and a holding of breath when the fitful flare lights lit up the way; covered at ti shells; faint and sick, but continuing to creep; chilled and sore and stiff, blinded and bleeding and torn, shell holes and stones and , long trail----!

"Halt!" caht

"Pat! Couard "Noatch! I' to it!"

"Better look out!" But he was off and back with soed blood-soaked German uniform