clear.
Now, an
artillery
barrage,
accompanied
or
followed
by a
gas-demonstration,
can mean
but one
thing: a
general
attack.
Therefore
telephonic
word came
to the
detachments
to left
and right
of the
Here-We-Comes,
to fall
back,
under
cover of
the
gas-cloud,
to safer
positions.
Two dogs
were sent,
with the
same
order, to
the
Here-We-Comes.
(One of
the dogs
was
gassed. A
bit of
shrapnel
found the
other.)Thus
it was
that the
Here-We-Comes
were left
