"Where are we ?" he demanded, now fully awake.

"What's up ?" Langton answered over his shoulder.

"Some where outside of a biggish town," he said; "and there's the devil of a strafe on.

The whole sky-line's lit up, but that may be twenty miles off.

However, Fritz must have advanced some." He was interrupted by a series of much louder explosions and the rattle of machine-gun fire.