Keep well down in the trench, Lieutenant Kenton!" The Invincibles hugged their shelter gladly enough while the fire from the great guns continued.

A second battery opened from a point further down the slope, and the fort was swept by a cross-fire of ball and shell.

Yet the loss of life was small.

The trenches were so deep and so well constructed that only chance pieces of shell struck human targets.
Harry remained with Colonel Talbot, ready to carry any order that he might give.

The colonel peered over the earthwork at intervals and searched the woods closely with a powerful pair of glasses.