CHAPTER II.
Can the die fall which side up it will?
Nay, not if it be honest .-- EASTERN PROVERB.
Many a league our infantry advanced that night, the guns following, getting the new range by a miracle each time they took new ground.
We went forward, too, at the cost of many casualties--too many in proportion to the work we did.

We were fired on in the darkness more than once by our own infantry.

We, who had lost but seventy-two men killed and wounded in the charge, were short another hundred when the day broke and nothing to the good by it.
Getting lost in the dark--falling into shell-holes--swooping down on rear-guards that generally proved to have machine guns with them--weary men on hungrier, wearier horses--the wonder is that a man rode back to tell of it at dawn.
One-hundred-and-two-and-seventy were our casualties, and some two hundred horses--some of the men so lightly wounded that they were back in the ranks within the week.

At dawn they sent us to the rear to rest, we being too good a target for the enemy by daylight.

Some of us rode two to a horse.