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Elizabeth’s Campaign

CHAPTER XIV
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Our people have moved her away several times--but she always comes back--and now they let her alone.

Our soldiers indeed are awfully good to her, and she looks after the graves in the little cemetery.

But when you speak to her, she never seems to understand, and her eyes--well, they haunt one.
'I'm beginning to get quite used to the life--and lately I have been doing some observation work with an F.O.O.

(that means Forward Observation Officer), which is awfully exciting.

Your business on these occasions is to get as close to the Germans as you can, without being seen, and you take a telephonist with you to send back word to the guns, and, by Jove, we do get close sometimes! 'Well, dear old Pam, there's my engineer coming across the fields, and I must shut up.


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