They moved out quietly and left no word behind."
"All right, we'll go up to Chateau Belge, and if they are not there,
we'll make a shot at Zillebeck," said Barry. "We'll go right away. We
don't need a lot of truck this trip."
It was a long and tiresome march, but Barry found himself remarkably
fit, and already under the exhilaration of what was before him. At
the Chateau Belge they found no word of their battalion, but they were
informed that the shelling on the Kruisstraat road had been bad all
afternoon, and was still going on. The Boches were paying particular
attention indeed to the crossroads.
"All right," said Barry. "We'll go up and have a look at it, anyway."
A hundred yards further up the road they were held up by a sudden burst
of H. E. shells, which fell in near proximity to the crossroads before
them.
"Well, we'll just wait here a few minutes until we can time these
things," said Barry, sitting down by the roadside.
As they were waiting there, three soldiers passed them at quick march.
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