The Boy Allies On The Firing Line

OR

Twelve Days Battle Along the Marne

By CLAIR W. HAYES

AUTHOR OF "The Boy Allies at Liège" "The Boy Allies With the Cossacks"
"The Boy Allies In the Trenches"

1915




CHAPTER I.

TERRIBLE ODDS.


"Feels pretty good to be back in harness, doesn't it, Hal?" asked
Chester, as, accompanied by a small body of men, they rode slowly along.

"Great!" replied his friend enthusiastically. "And it looks as if we were
to see action soon."

"Yes, it does look that way."

The little body of British troopers, only forty-eight of them all told,