AT GRIPS WITH GERMAN SPIES New barracks buildings continued to spring up at Camp Berry.

Drafts of men for a National Army division began to arrive, besides a brigade of infantry, a regiment of field artillery and a machine-gun battalion of regulars.
Brigadier-General Bates arrived to take command of the regulars, while Major-general Timmins assumed command of the National Army division and became commanding general of the camp as well.
New batches of recruits, constantly arriving for the regulars, soon gave the Ninety-ninth an average of a hundred and eighty men to the company, or forty-five men to each platoon.

Drill went on as nearly incessantly during daylight as the men could endure.
"In my opinion it won't be very long before the Ninety-ninth goes over and reports to General Pershing," Dick told his chum.

"At the rate our ranks are being filled up we'll soon have a full-strength regiment." "But most of our men are still recruits," Holmes objected.

The regiment really isn't anywhere near fit for foreign service." "It won't be so many weeks before we're ordered abroad," Dick insisted.