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Title: The Boy Allies in the Trenches
Midst Shot and Shell Along the Aisne

Author: Clair Wallace Hayes

Release Date: June 9, 2004 [EBook #12571]

Language: English

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The Boy Allies In The Trenches

OR

Midst Shot and Shell along the Aisne

By CLAIR W. HAYES

AUTHOR OF "The Boy Allies At Liege" "The Boy Allies On the Firing Line"
"The Boy Allies With the Cossacks"

1915

CHAPTER I.

WITH THE ARMY.

"Well! Well! Well! If it isn't Lieutenant Paine and Lieutenant Crawford!"

The speaker, none other than Field Marshal Sir John French,
commander-in-chief of the British forces sent to help France hurl back
the legions of the German invader, was greatly surprised by the
appearance of the two lads before him.

"I thought surely you had been killed," continued General French.

"We are not to be killed so easily, sir," replied Hal Paine.

"And where have you been?" demanded the General.

"In Russia, sir," replied Chester Crawford, "where we were attached to a
Cossack regiment, and where we saw considerable fighting."

General French uttered an exclamation of astonishment.

"How did you get there?" he asked. "And how did you return?"

"Airship," was Hal's brief response, and he related their adventures
since they had last seen their commander.

Hal then tendered the General a despatch he carried from the Grand Duke
Nicholas, commander-in-chief of all the Russian armies operating against
the Germans in the eastern theater of war.

"You shall serve on my staff," said General French finally.

He summoned another officer and ordered that quarters be prepared for the
two lads immediately.

And while the two boys are getting themselves comfortably fixed it will
be a good time to introduce the lads to such readers as have not