which brought Lucien to a standstill.

"'Maybe he is afraid, too,' reflected the lad. 'I must get him.' And
get him he did. Running back, he loaded the wounded man on the barrow
and ran with him all the way to the rear.

"'See! I have taken a Boche,' he cried, staggering up to the dressing
station. 'I shall now go get another one.' This he did. He was taking
a new interest in his work, and thereafter made no distinction between
Germans and Frenchmen in his work of mercy.

"All during that desperate fighting little Lucien was a familiar
figure on the battlefield. He really performed many heroic deeds. Now
and then, overcome by fright, he would dash for a tree, but these
flights were becoming fewer. He began to feel a pride in the work he
was doing and this pride of achievement and the new spirit of
patriotism that had been aroused within him served to keep him up and
gave him new courage. Before that day of suffering came to an end
there was none on the battlefield more heroic and courageous than
little Lucien.

"How many wounded men the lad had rescued from the field of battle no
one knew, but there were many of them, among them two majors and three
captains.

"Just before nightfall the French made a great charge. Lucien was well
out between the lines when the charge started. The Germans put down a
'curtain of fire,' hoping in this way to stop the charge. And little
Lucien and his wheelbarrow were fairly caught in it. A shell hit the
barrow and blew it, with a wounded soldier, into bits. Lucien was