They were laughing, as if the whole thing was a joke, when crack! came a volley of bullets and with a great shout back rushed the French and Belgians in a counter-charge.

I admit I ducked, crawling under the ambulance, and the Germans were so surprised that they beat a quick retreat.
"And now it was that Gys made a fool of himself.

He tore off his cap and coat, which bore the Red Cross emblem, and leaped right between the two lines.

Here were the Germans, firing as they retreated, and the Allies firing as they charged, and right in the center of the fray stood Gys.
The man ought to have been shot to pieces, but nothing touched him until a Frenchman knocked him over because he was in the way of the rush.

It was the most reckless, suicidal act I ever heard of!" Uncle John looked worried.