[Illustration: SAMMY MACHINE GUNS AND RIFLES MOWED THEM DOWN. _The Khaki Boys at the Front._ _Page 127_] THE KHAKI BOYS AT THE FRONT OR _Shoulder to Shoulder in the Trenches_ By CAPT. GORDON BATES Author of "The Khaki Boys at Camp Sterling" "The Khaki Boys on the Way," etc. _ILLUSTRATED_ NEW YORK CUPPLES & LEON COMPANY COPYRIGHT, 1918, BY CUPPLES & LEON COMPANY * * * * * THE KHAKI BOYS AT THE FRONT CONTENTS CHAPTER PAGE I A JOYFUL REUNION 1 II MEETING COUSIN EMILE 10 III TRAILED 20 IV AN UNSEEN FOE 27 V A WILD GOOSE CHASE 32 VI THE UNFORESEEN 38 VII "AT HOME" 45 VIII A BOCHE TESTIMONIAL 51 IX ON THE MARCH 59 X THE LAST LAP 68 XI IN THE FIRE TRENCH 75 XII GETTING USED TO IT 85 XIII UNDER FIRE 94 XIV DETAILED TO SCOUTING DUTY 104 XV OUT IN NO MAN'S LAND 114 XVI FOREWARNED IS FOREARMED 122 XVII MISSING: A BROTHER 128 XVIII "IT'S A GREAT LIFE" 139 XIX OUT OF THE AIR 144 XX THE RETURN OF COUSIN EMILE 155 XXI UP ABOVE THE CLOUDS 167 XXII THE UNSPEAKABLE CRIME 178 XXIII LOYAL UNTO DEATH 188 XXIV WAITING FOR ZERO HOUR 197 * * * * * THE KHAKI BOYS AT THE FRONT CHAPTER I A JOYFUL REUNION "I suppose we might as well be hiking along," announced Roger Barlow regretfully, as he consulted his watch. "We've lots of time yet, but we'd better be early than late back to camp. We are strangers in a strange land and we've quite a long way to go." "I'm satisfied to go. I came up here to see Paris and I've seen it. That is, a scrap of it. I guess it would take a long while to get really wise to it. I sure would like to use up a little time poking around _la belle_ Paree. My, but this hash house is a dead place, though! Nobody alive here but us." Bob Dalton glanced disapprovingly about the unassuming little café in which he and his four Brothers had elected to dine. Its hushed atmosphere oppressed him. "Oh, Paris is altogether different from what it used to be," informed Sergeant Jimmy Blaise. "It's lost a lot of pep since this war began. Can you wonder?"