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She perceived clearly enough that the instant discharge of William Roper would not stop the scandal, and she was desperately afraid of the results of it. The hope which had sprung up in her mind on reading in the Daily Wire the story of her husband's quarrel with an unknown woman died down.

During these brief hours there exists an informal truce, founded on the principle of live and let live. It would be an easy business to wipe out that working-party, over there by the barbed wire, with a machine-gun. It would be child's play to shell the road behind the enemy's trenches, crowded as it must be with ration-waggons and water-carts, into a blood-stained wilderness.

"Thank God for that!" fervently ejaculated a voice that I had not heard before. "Be as quick as you can, pray, for I fear that my poor husband here is dead or dying; and he should be attended to without a moment's delay." "That's Mrs Maynard's voice!" exclaimed the carpenter, as he worked away with his wire; "I know it well.

About this climbed a vigorous grape-vine, which not only completely screened nearly the whole front of the piazza, but, reaching the top of the trellis, shot across, by the aid of a few pieces of fine wire, and overran a part of the roof of the house.

I crawled around in circles and at last found it, then started on my way back to our trenches, as I thought. Pretty soon I reached barbed wire, and was just going to give the password, when something told me not to. I put out my hand and touched one of the barbed wire stakes. It was iron. The British are of wood, while the German are iron.

The man at the end of the wire cried out at this, then choked back his words to hear what followed. His free hand began making strange, futile motions as though he traced patterns in the air. "I can't raise the road-house on the wire and something dreadful has happened, I know." "What made her go?" he shouted. "To save you," came Cherry's faint reply.

This happened about three weeks after the British Government had issued their ultimatum, and about one month after the Orange Free State Government had received a wire asking them to remain neutral, thus clearly giving them to understand that the British Government intended to make war on the South African Government.

"But you're certain Miss Hampton is the one, are you?" says she. "If she wa'n't," says I, "why should he keep the folder?" "That's so," says Vee. "Then then shall we do it?" "I'm game if you are," says I. "All right," says she, and I hears one of them ripplin' laughs of hers comin' over the wire. "It's to-morrow at half after three, you know." "I'll be on hand," says I.

He showed a fatter and more wholesome face certainly, he was clean and well dressed, but still, unmistakably it was the man to whom I used to take an occasional book or chocolate when he lay behind the wire of the inner prison there. "It can't be you?" I said illogically. But it was. But what a change these two years had wrought!

Early attacks upon the Western Front were usually directed against trenches, of which successive lines, reaching to a distance or 'depth' of several thousand yards, were often our goal or 'objective. So that our Infantry could enter hostile trenches it was invariably necessary to destroy the wire in front or make a pathway through it. Many attacks failed because the wire had not been cut.