"I think so too," agreed Earl. "We'll have to run our chances, that's all."
"There are the trenches below us now," cried Leon suddenly. "See them up ahead there?"
"Sure enough," exclaimed Earl. "Don't they look funny from here? They look just like a series of deep scars running in all directions."
"You can't see the first line trenches yet," said Leon. "You can easily tell them for they'll run exactly parallel to one another and the space in between them will be the only place where you see no trenches. Behind both the French and German first lines there are any number of other trenches running in all directions and all connected. But in between the two front ones there is nothing; 'no-man's land' they call it."
"'Dead-man's land' would be better I should think."
"See them firing," exclaimed Leon suddenly.
"At us?" queried Earl.
"No. You can see those puffs of smoke down below there though; those are bursting shells."
"There are the first line trenches too," said Earl abruptly. "You can tell them easily, can't you, just as you said."
"How high are we, Jacques?" inquired Leon.