Bestsellers, American, 1895-1923
CECIL _is discovered lying behind a wall of sandbags. On one side are the sandbags, and on the other an idyllic spring scene, with flowers and orchards seen in the half-light of a spring morning. The dawn breaks gently, and soon bullets begin to ping through the air, flattenin...
SCENE. _The same, but the wall of sand-bags_ _bags is broken in many places. The dead lie half-buried beneath them._ CECIL _lies, badly wounded, against a gap in the wall, his r...
3. Chapter 3CECIL (_to himself_). Tom dead. Good Lord! What times we have had together! Where are all the good fellows I used to know? Half of them dead, and the rest condemned to die! No m...
1. Chapter 1CECIL _is discovered lying behind a wall of sandbags. On one side are the sandbags, and on the other an idyllic spring scene, with flowers and orchards seen in the half-light of...
2. Chapter 2THIRST. Oh for a drink! Water, anything! I could drink a bath full. What a place to spend a June day in! When one thinks of all the drinks one might be having, it is really infu...