Halt! Who's There? (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Halt! Who's There?

Easier said than done The Boy was just confusedly sorting things out in his mind, when the bullet passed through his lung. He knew only that he fell forward on his face, and that blood streamed from his mouth - he was even aware of the warmth of it. He could not move; and the sounds close about him seemed to be far away. Two of his own men, running by, stopped and stooped and turned him about, and then hurried on, one saying to the other Past praying for - how mistaken, he says to me now, to think any one is ever that' Then a bomb burst not far away, and an inquisitive bit of shrapnel, as somebody else called it with his own good reason, came and took liberties with him. It tore away the covering, even some of the flesh covering, of the Boy's breast. He said he felt his heart sent over to the wrong side. A moment later, a brother oficer bent over him with a brief recognition, put a handkerchief over his head, as fiy-guard and sun-shade - or cerement.

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