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Updated: May 4, 2025
She evidently liked to talk about her husband. She brightened as she spoke. "Yes, for a while. He drove a motor-ambulance, you know, but it bored him after a month or two. They wouldn't let him up to the firing-lines, so he quit. Have you seen him?" "Once or twice." "He's looking well, isn't he?" "Yes, confound him! His handsome features have been my ruin."
She turned out to have her husband with her an enormous, hairy man with a bull's voice who ought to have been in one or other of the firing-lines but had probably held back in obedience to his better half. She made him her orderly at once, and it was not long before every soul in the castle had his or her place to hold.
But they rarely got a clear view of him save in street fighting and, of course, when he was advancing across open country. Soldiers no longer select their man and pick him off as one would pick off a stag, because the great range of modern rifles has put the firing-lines too far apart for that sort of thing.
Our infantry are already nearly as patient and cunning as he; nothing but being shot at will ever teach men the art of using cover, but they get plenty of that nowadays. Another lesson is the use of very, very thin firing-lines of good shots, with the supports snugly concealed: the other day fourteen men of the Manchesters repulsed 200 Boers.
He had been giving orders, and taking them, and being on firing-lines; all the things that he had written her about, and that had seemed so like story-books when she got the letters.
For instance, the reserve line is not always connected with the firing-lines by a communication-trench. Those persons whose duty it is to pay daily visits to the fire-trenches Battalion Commanders, Gunner and Sapper officers, an occasional Staff Officer, and an occasional most devoted Padre perform the journey as best they may.
It was his duty to pass frequently through the firing-lines on his way to Antwerp and London. He was constantly under fire. Three times his automobile was hit by bullets. These trips were so hazardous that Whitlock urged that he should take them. It is said he and his secretary used to toss for it.
McCloud I think it unpardonable to do anything like that!" "I am Mr. McCloud, though I should rather be anybody else; and I am sorry that I was unable to help hearing what was said; I " "Marion, will you be kind enough to give me my gloves?" said Dicksie, holding out her hand. Marion, having tried once or twice to intervene, stood between the firing-lines in helpless amazement.
They found it so far in rear that their fire was almost equally dangerous to friends and foes on account of the close proximity of the two firing-lines. The obvious conclusion is that machine guns can live at close ranges, where artillery can not stay.
Great stores of material and munitions were concentrated at rail-heads and dumps ready to be sent up to the firing-lines, and the perfection of German organization may well have seemed flawless before the attack began. When they began they found that in "heavies" and in expenditure of high explosives they were outclassed.
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