THE KHAKI BOYS OVER THE TOP OR _Doing and Daring for Uncle Sam_ By CAPT. GORDON BATES Author of "The Khaki Boys at Camp Sterling" "The Khaki Boys on the Way," "The Khaki Boys at the Front," etc. _ILLUSTRATED_ 1919 THE KHAKI BOYS SERIES By CAPT. GORDON BATES THE KHAKI BOYS AT CAMP STERLING or Training for the Big Fight in France THE KHAKI BOYS ON THE WAY or Doing Their Bit on Land and Sea THE KHAKI BOYS AT THE FRONT or Shoulder to Shoulder in the Trenches THE KHAKI BOYS OVER THE TOP or Doing and Daring for Uncle Sam THE KHAKI BOYS FIGHTING TO WIN or Smashing the German Lines CUPPLES & LEON COMPANY, New York * * * * * THE KHAKI BOYS OVER THE TOP CONTENTS CHAPTER PAGE I BLOWN BACK 1 II TO THE RESCUE 11 III SENT TO THE REAR 19 IV A DOUBLE LOSS 28 V WHAT'S TO BE DONE 38 VI GOOD NEWS 44 VII UNDER FIERCE FIRE 52 VIII THE OLD MILL 61 IX TRAPPED 70 X FALLING WALLS 78 XI A STRANGE RESCUE 88 XII MUCH WONDERING 98 XIII A PERILOUS JOURNEY 105 XIV THE SENTRY 113 XV IN THE BATTLE AGAIN 122 XVI HELD UP 133 XVII A BATTLE OF THE AIR 139 XVIII CAPTURED 146 XIX THREE PRISONERS 156 XX THE CAPTAIN AGAIN 163 XXI BACK WITH FRIENDS 176 XXII FIERCE FIGHTING 185 XXIII THE LONELY HUT 192 XXIV A GLORIOUS VICTORY 199 [Illustration: [Transcriber's note: original truncated] 'INTO THE MIDST OF THE'] THE KHAKI BOYS OVER THE TOP CHAPTER I BLOWN BACK "What's that, Schnitz?" "What's what!" "That noise. Sounds like a party coming along the communication trench!" The talk was in tense whispers, and the listening was now of the same tenseness. Two khaki-clad Sammies stood on the alert in the muddy ditch, dignified by the title, "trench," and tried to pierce the darkness that was like a pall of black velvet over everything. "Hear it?" inquired he who had first spoken. "I somedings hears, too," spoke a guttural voice, with a foreign accent. "Might not it perhaps be--" "Cut that talk, Iggy!" sharply commanded the first speaker. "Do you want the lieutenant dropping in on us!" And Corporal Robert Dalton cautiously moved nearer his fellow non-com., Sergeant Franz Schnitzel.