CHAPTER V. ON CAPTURED GROUND
“ I wonder what the next move is?” said Larry. “I don’t fancy they will leave us waiting here much longer.”
“ Don’t you suppose,” asked Kentucky, “we’ll wait here until the other companies get across?”
“ Lord knows,” said Larry; “and, come to think of it, Kentuck, has it struck you how beastly little we do know about anything? We’ve pushed their line in a bit, evidently, but how far we’ve not an idea. We don’t know even if their first line is captured on a front of half a mile, or half a hundred miles; we don’t know what casualties we’ve got in our own battalion, or even in our own company, much less whether they have been heavy or light in the whole attack.”
“ That’s so,” said Kentucky; “although I confess none of these things is worrying me much.
