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Updated: June 17, 2025
"I mean my five thousand francs are gone, too. Whew! Well, it can't be helped, I suppose. I'll go tell the boys!" "What's the matter. Blazes?" cried Bob, as he saw his friend coming back. "You look as if we'd lost the war!" "Well, I've lost part of something I won in it, anyhow," declared Jimmy. "Is Iggy dead?" Franz wanted to know. "Did you hear any word from him?"
"The shell burst right in front, or to one side of poor Iggy. He was blown into a shell hole, of that I'm pretty sure." "There's a hole a big one, too," said Roger. "But there's no one in it only dead!" and he turned away, for some of those dead were comrades who, the night before, had been in the trenches with him and his chums. But the Khaki Boys were hardened to scenes like this now.
For a moment, after they had comprehended the situation to which Jimmy had called their attention, they were all silent. Then Iggy caused another laugh by remarking. "Well, I eat me now. I haf some of my rations and I hear where is water running yet. Always in our countries where is a mill is water. Of a dryness I am, and water is good for of a dryness."
"You go see if you can find any stretcher bearers, or a doctor or anyone like that," suggested Jimmy to Franz and Iggy. "We'll stay with him. Or Bob and I will. You'd better go report to the captain where we are, Roger. He might think we've deserted." Bob and Jimmy, left with Maxwell, made him as comfortable as they could, washing his face and giving him more water to drink.
"I don't know as much about it as you three fellows do," said Franz, "but it sounds as though you'd have to. Tough luck, but it's got to be done." "How about you, Iggy?" asked Bob. "I fights mit youse," said the Polish lad simply, "and what you says I say!" "That ends it!" went on Jimmy.
We don't want to be separated at a time like this!" "Yes, sir!" cried Jimmy, his heart now on fire with a desperate resolve. He wished Franz and Iggy could be of the rescue party, but they were already out of the trench, under the leadership of one of the lieutenants, making a fierce counter-attack. Quickly Jimmy picked out six privates, and rapidly explained what he wanted.
"Thought you were done for, like poor Iggy," cried Roger. "I thought so, too," answered Schnitz. "I felt sure my foot was lopped off, but it was only bruised on the ankle by a stone that some piece of shell must have kicked up. It's only badly bruised. I don't have to go to the rear!" and he said this joyously.
"Oh, he wrote one saying you had been captured and that he was going to hike into German territory and find you the first chance he had," explained Franz. "Sure I would go, but now not," declared Iggy. "I home write annudder letter soon." "It was good of you to think of us," said Jimmy. "And now tell us about yourselves. Are you all right?
And as the four Brothers were making shallow trenches they wondered, with sorrow in their hearts, if there was a chance that Iggy had been left alive. "If we stay here long enough, I'll see if I can't get permission to go back and find out," mused Jimmy, as he frantically scraped the earth into a sort of long mound in front of his head. They were under a hot fire now.
"And, fellows, we mustn't forget that he may be lying dead in some rain-filled shell hole," he went on softly. "We'll just suspend judgment, that's all. Forget the bad news about Maxwell and remember the good news about Iggy. And we'll all go to see Ig as soon as we can." "You said it!" declared Bob.
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