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The physical aim was to make men light for heavy work; to give them a taste of the joy and the true health of the field before the entrainments, the haste and the fighting; but the psychological purpose was to make each atom forget itself, to weave it well into the fabric of the mass. Kohlvihr's division had to be moved; very well, let the movement gather the values of practice marching as well.
Boylan was actually afraid of his thoughts, lest they be read in his face the shocking personal business on Kohlvihr's part. "A little shrapnel or two sends him quaking home, and they went out five times for him into the very steam of hell." His brain kept repeating this in spite of him, so that he did not try to overtake the staff.
Peter had taken for granted that these had been emptied by the huge advances already in movement. They were in the path of Kohlvihr's reserves, it appeared, in the center of the line, when the signal "forward" was sounded. The works suddenly blackened with men. It was too much for the pony.
He was becoming genial; his heart quaking for Peter, as he thought suddenly of the words aimed at Kohlvihr's throat, and of Peter's association at the last with the man in the steward's blouse. ...Dabnitz was unvaryingly courteous. The advance was on again. Boylan went forth to see the repulse.
I won't betray. There must be a wise way to feed the red melodramatic receptivity of the cities and at the same time to tell the real story." He stood in the midst of square miles of men and military engines. On every road other Russian forces moved southward and to the southeast. The railroads groaned with troops, for the most part in a better state of preparation than Kohlvihr's division.
He glanced at the faces about him, and continued: "But instead of leading me in the direction you had taken, the sentry bade me mount a horse at the door, and we rode rapidly down to the edge of the valley, to Kohlvihr's headquarters a pestilential place sunken in the ground and covered with sods. There they broke it to me what was wanted " His listeners began to understand.
The engagement was sharp exhilaration to Peter; perhaps it was to certain of the soldiers; yet it was the first. Its touch of blood quivered through Kohlvihr's command not yet assimilated, stirred this raw entity with deep inexplicable passion. The correspondents were riding with the staff; the point of the van was moving below in plain sight when its baptism fell.
And Big Belt's eyes roved to Dabnitz, who apparently had not heard Peter's remark. ...And now the tugging from Samarc that meant words! It seemed as if a ghastly stillness prepared for that final rumble; certainly stillness followed it. All eyes turned, even Kohlvihr's, to the effigy. But Peter alone understood. "...Don't let them take off the bandages."
Many things had come to him. He wished as never before for a free cable.... Boylan came in at dark and drew him away from Samarc's cot. "I'll be back to-night," Peter promised. "...There's been no break in the check to-day," Big Belt reported. "Kohlvihr's division, and the immediate forces surrounding, are part of the great right wing, and this right is holding up the whole Russian command.
The place dwindled and darkened to the rear, from which the head and shoulders of Samarc presently emerged, and a moment later Little Spenski, his companion, sat up and rubbed his eyes. These two, invariably together, were men of a rapid-fire battery, to meet their pieces lower in the fields, and attached for the present, as were Boylan and Mowbray, to the staff of General Kohlvihr's command.
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