"
"That might be it. Anyhow, if he doesn't tell us to-morrow, I'm going to
tell him what I think of him."
"Then he won't talk," said Chester.
"We might be able to get him mad enough to make him talk," returned Hal.
"By Jove! so we might," said Chester. "We'll have a try at it to-morrow
if it's necessary."
"All right. Then let's turn in. I've a feeling it's going to be a
strenuous day to-morrow."
And it was; though not strenuous in the way Hal had expected.
CHAPTER VI
A PERILOUS SITUATION
Hal and Chester held no conversation with Anthony Stubbs the following
day, and therefore were unable to learn more than they already knew of
the war correspondent's great "story."
Before they rose Stubbs was up and gone, and when he returned, several
hours later, Hal and Chester were receiving orders from General Petain.
The German advance had continued the day before in spite of the heroic
stand of the French troops. Successive charges by the Teuton hordes had
driven the defenders back along practically the entire front. Here, with
the coming of night, they had taken a brace with the arrival of
reinforcements and had stemmed the tide; but not a man failed to realize
that there would be more desperate work on the morrow.
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