The Americans were ready on the instant to march toward Berlin. Twenty-four hours before the time set for signing, tanks, airplanes, guns and men poured over the Rhine. If the Germans wanted more fighting they could have it. If they did not sign the treaty at Versailles, they would be compelled to sign it in Berlin. The guns were ready to thunder, the men ready to charge.
The Germans saw those preparations and wilted. Their boasting changed to whining.
On June the twenty-eighth they signed the treaty. The war was over!
And when that night the booming of guns at Coblenz told that the treaty had been signed, the Army Boys hugged each other in delight at the knowledge that their work was done and that now they were free to go back home!
"Hurrah!" cried Billy in wild jubilation.
"Back to the States!" shouted Bart.
"Three cheers for Old Glory!" exclaimed Tom.
"And a tiger," added Frank. "Well, fellows, our work is over. Our boys came over here to! whip the Hun. They did it. They came over to help win the war. They did it. The job is done, and now we Army Boys can go back in triumph to God's country!"
THE END
End of Project Gutenberg's Army Boys on German Soil, by Homer Randall