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MESSI PTS hasts wf Li cr gt nein | | thea tss i gee z ¥ a u iF r NTI es #33, Nee Th alia & 5 “ . ¥ 5 7 ; By WILL McMORROW Author of ‘‘ Thundering Dawns,’’ etc. WHAT HAS OCCURRED IN PART I OSING his job and his girl at-the same time, Dick Harmon drowned his woes at an East Side, New York, saloon, and awoke the next morning to find he had been shanghaied on a horse boat bound for Liverpool. It was in rors, and the animals were being taken across for the Allies. During the trip Harmon succeeded in rehardening his muscles, and making a friend of Bob Tuesday, who called himself a soldier of misfortune. They arrived in London, and, their finances exhausted, joined the British army. They were assigned to the old and famous London Light Infantry Guard, and sent to the training camp at Camberham, where a rigorous discipline was practiced, which would either make a first class soldier of a recruit, or kill him. Being Americans, their first day under Sergeant Narley did not begin auspiciously, and he insisted on caliing Harmon “ Canadian.” CHAPTER XI. SOLDIERS OF THE KING. ARMON had had as a boy a few months’ instruction in military drill at a juvenile summer camp, and Bob Tuesday had picked up, in his short and inglorious career as a South American colonel, the rudiments of the school of the soldier. But they found it of little practical use on their first morning of drill at Cam- berham. ; They discovered that the British com- mand of “ Right turn,” “ Left turn,” and “About turn ” meant not only the Ameri- can ‘“ Right face,” “Left face,” and ‘‘ About face,” but, executed on the march, was also the American “By the right flank,” “By the left flank,” and “ To the rear—march.” The forming of column of squads from line, instead of being a simple ‘“ Squads right,” became a long-winded command, “Move to the right in fours—form fours— right ” and was carried out in an altogether different fashion. ‘Column right” was This stery began in the Argosy-Allstory Weekly for September 24. $33 | Eomichboo ;GOr