THE BLIND SEE To those waiting for the threatened attack upon the power dam, the mere torment of continued inaction became intolerable, but as to material danger, nothing definite came.

The keen-eyed young soldiers on their beat night after night, day after day, caught no sight or sound of any lurking enemy, and began to feel resentment at the arduous hours asked of them.

Once in a while one trooper would say to another that he saw no sense in people getting scared at nothing out in No Man's Land.

The laborers of the camp were more or less incurious.

They did their allotted hours of labor each day, passed at night to the bunk house, and fell into a snake-like torpor.