alone
(though
they did
not know
it), to
hold the
position,--with
no support
on either
side, and
with a
mere
handful of
men
wherewith
to stem
the
impending
rush. On
the heels
of the
dispersing
gas-cloud,
and
straight
across the
half-mile
or less of
broken
ground,
came a
line of
gray. In
five
successive
waves,
according
to custom,
the boches
charged.
Each wave
hurled
itself
forward as
fast as
efficiency
would let
it, in
face of
the
