Army Boys on German Soil: Our Doughboys Quelling the Mobs

rked Frank Sheldon to his chum, Bart Raymond, as the two s

s neck and turned his back to the sleet-laden wind that was fairly blowing a gale. "I don't see a

" agreed Frank. "But it wasn't that I was thinking ab

that was found stabbed to death the other n

things that shows the way the wind is blowing. But it's the sur

emselves in trying to tell us how glad they were to have the Americans here instead of the French and English. Now they're getting che

the mischief to have Americans keeping the watch on the Rhine. Th

reet without seeing an American uniform somewhere. We've got this old town

seem to have come from the outside. You know Germany's being ripped up the back everywhere by mobs, and th

find they're monkeying with a buzz saw. What our fellows would do to them would

med figures approaching, their heads bent away from the i

me into the flickering light of the street lamp, near which Frank Sheldon and Bart

ucks, Tom," replied

as he shook the drops from his raincoat. "How would it be to be back i

uddenly a rifle cracked and a bullet whizzed by

ted Frank, as he leaped

he hall, they peered out into the darkness to see if th

for the roaring of the gale, a

Bradford. "We don't even know the direction from which the sho

Tom," remarked Billy. "A half inch cl

e through that Argonne fighting alive," grumbled Tom. "I'd just like to

right when I told you that trou

you were,

wrathfully. "We've gone on the theory that if we treated 'em white and gave 'em a

ve held control. They've made the Boches walk Spanish. If they didn't uncover when the flag went by, they knocked their hats off for them. They know that the only argument that a Hun understands is force, and

said Bart. "But we're due to stiffen up a bit now. We're

ed by an exclama

s," he adjured

hispered Bart, wh

ley half-way down the block," returned Frank. "And there goes a

y and I didn't see any

ther incr

t. "He has the best eyes of any o

Frank tensely. "There's someth

into it when I passed it on my beat. But it's a blind all

If any one else goes in, and then we'll go down and nip the whole bunch. It's against regu

ong them that fired that sho

rank Sheldon's eyes detected no other sku

ed, for when the Army Boys were together the leadership by common consent devolved on Fr

ed Tom, as with the others he p

e shadow of the houses, though in the rain and darkness that seemed al

with factories and coal yards. On each side of the alley stood the wall of a factory, three

side," whispered Frank, when they reached the mouth of the alley. "Keep

nse with expectation, their clubs ready for i

ell, a glaze formed on the sidewalks, so that it wa

r to a head, and the waiting in dr

leaving us here to hold the bag?" queried Bart Ra

ere isn't any way to get out except the way they went

n Frank had begun to have doubts. Tom slipped

o into the alley and smoke them out," he whisper

d be on their guard, while if we nab them here we'll catch them unawar

stipulated time Fr

"Spread across so that they can't slip between us. They've go

t them in their frequent incursions into No Man's Land during the war

still no sign of their quarry.

, until with a muttered exclamation Frank came plu

urmured in pr

gathered cl

on us," mu

od and proper,

hat you saw them com

an

k, who although puzzled was

gibed Tom. "Nothing else could ha

ight from his pocket

no one t

in perplexity. "Thirty feet high if it's an

e windows of the building on

shlight on the wall

protected with iron bars and nothing could get betwe

out, and the flashlight was kn

the example, and the next moment al

was a crackling of guns, and oth

to his feet. "They're at the mouth of th

ades close upon his heels, their pis