"So next day I went to him and gave him a great line of talk about how sick I was of Camp Sterling and what a mistake the U. S. had made in declaring war on the Fatherland. That made him prick up his ears. But he was no fool. I had to string him along good and hard before he bit at the hook. One day he asked me why I'd enlisted. I just smiled and threw him a funny look. He stared hard at me and muttered: 'Hoch der Kaiser,' and I said: 'You bet.' "Then I had him going. After that it was easy. He soon got so he'd talk for hours about how bad the Germans had been treated. He'd almost always end by saying, 'It is for you and me to avenge the great wrongs done the Fatherland.' But he'd never said what we ought to do until about a week before the bomb business. Then he asked me to go for a walk. We went away out past the trenches. After a while he stopped me and asked if I was willing to do my bit for the Kaiser. I said I was and he put me through an oath of allegiance to Kaiser Bill and then told me what the 'great work' was to be. He was careful not to let me know how he got the bombs. He had two or three of them, you know. "I put it up strong to him then about the poison. Gave him a lot of guff about our being Brothers in the cause, and all that. He didn't say in so many words that he did it, but he let me understand it just the same. You know the rest. Thank God, I got that bomb away from him. I'm glad I could do something to help the United States and I'm glad, too, on my own account. I'd never have rested easy as long as that poison affair wasn't cleared up. I feel now as though I couldn't go over quick enough to help even the score for Simpson and Brady." "That's the way we all feel," declared Jimmy. "I would to-morrow go," declared Ignace. "Well, I'm ready to hike along the little old Glory Road," smiled Roger. "Here, too," echoed Bob. "Take the Glory Road to France; Hike along to join the fray. With the Sammies take a chance, 'Neath the Stars and Stripes to-day," hummed Jimmy. "That's us," approved Bob. "Lead us to it!" "Going Over" held no dread for the Khaki Boys. They were indeed ready to take their chance beneath the Stars and Stripes in the trenches of far-off France. When the welcome summons came and what happened to them after leaving Camp Sterling for a longer hike along the Glory Road is told in the second volume of this series entitled, "The Khaki Boys on the Way, or Doing Their Bit on Sea and Land." THE END * * * * * THE KHAKI BOYS SERIES BY CAPT. GORDON BATES _12mo. Cloth. Illustrated. Jacket in full color._ _Price per volume, 50 cents, postpaid._ [Illustration] _All who love the experiences and adventures of our American boys, fighting for the freedom of democracy in the world, will be delighted with these vivid and true-to-life stories of the camp and field in the great war._ THE KHAKI BOYS AT CAMP STERLING _or Training for the Big Fight in France_