Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the original illustration. See 46085-h.htm or 46085-h.zip: (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/46085/46085-h/46085-h.htm) or (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/46085/46085-h.zip) Images of the original pages are available through Internet Archive. See https://archive.org/details/boyallieswithper00drak [Illustration: Hal acted quickly. "Sergeant Bowers!" he called sharply. "Take a dozen men and capture that house!"] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ THE BOY ALLIES WITH PERSHING IN FRANCE Or Over the Top at Chateau Thierry by CLAIR W. HAYES Author of "The Boy Allies With the Army Series" [Illustration] A. L. Burt Company New York ------------------------------------------------------------------------ THE BOY ALLIES (Registered in the United States Patent Office) WITH THE ARMY SERIES By Clair W. Hayes The Boy Allies at Liege or, Through Lines of Steel The Boy Allies on the Firing Line or, Twelve Days Battle along the Marne The Boy Allies with the Cossacks or, A Wild Dash over the Carpathians The Boy Allies in the Trenches or, Midst Shot and Shell along the Aisne The Boy Allies in Great Peril or, With the Italian Army in the Alps The Boy Allies in the Balkan Campaign or, The Struggle to Save a Nation The Boy Allies on the Somme or, Courage and Bravery Rewarded The Boy Allies at Verdun or, Saving France from the Enemy The Boy Allies under the Stars and Stripes or, Leading the American Troops to the Firing Line The Boy Allies with Haig in Flanders or, The Fighting Canadians of Vimy Ridge The Boy Allies with Pershing in France or, Over the Top at Chateau-Thierry The Boy Allies with the Great Advance or, Driving the Enemy through France and Belgium The Boy Allies with Marshal Foch or, The Closing Days of The Great World War. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Copyright, 1919 By A. L. Burt Company ------------------------------------------------------------------------ THE BOY ALLIES WITH PERSHING IN FRANCE CHAPTER I IN NO MAN'S LAND Hal Paine and Chester Crawford crouched low in a shell hole in No Man's Land. All morning they had been there and the day had worn on now into the afternoon.