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from Arques to the station at the foot of Cassel Hill was always lined on each side by lorries, guns, pontoons and all manner of war material. A gloomy road, thick wi

to the Somme, and the little "H?tel Sauvage" stood for the "Godbert," the "Cathedral" and "Charlie's Bar" all in one. The dining-room, with its long row of windows showing the wonderful view, like the Rubens landscape in the National Gallery, was packed every night for the most part with fighting boys from the Salient, who had come in for a couple of hours to eat, drink, play the piano and sing, forgetting their misery and discomfort for the momen

e was that of the Somme. One look from the eyes of Suzanne, one smile, and t

hat time. Whether the marriage ever came off I know not. Certainly not before the end of the war, a

room across the courtyard and can see Beach Thomas by his open window, in his shirt-sleeves, writing like fury at some terrific

iness; his face drawn very fine, and intense sadness in his very kind eyes; also Percival Phillips-that