That is the only way to end it." It was a morning or two later that, knocking at the door of her loft, he asked her if she would care to come with him to the trenches.

He had brought an outfit for her which he handed to her with a grin.

She had followed Folk's advice and had cut her hair; and when she appeared before him for inspection in trousers and overcoat, the collar turned up about her neck, and reaching to her helmet, he had laughingly pronounced the experiment safe.
A motor carried them to where the road ended, and from there, a little one-horse ambulance took them on to almost the last trees of the forest.
There was no life to be seen anywhere.

During the last mile, they had passed through a continuous double line of graves; here and there a group of tiny crosses keeping one another company; others standing singly, looking strangely lonesome amid the torn-up earth and shattered trees.
But even these had ceased.

Death itself seemed to have been frightened away from this terror-haunted desert.
Looking down, she could see thin wreaths of smoke, rising from the ground.