Excerpt from The Shielding Wing

Archer lost his cook in the crisis of the Spasma Hills fighting in the Carpathians a year before America was called to the great struggle. The Austrian outfit that the American accompanied was raked by the Russian machine-guns - a fire thick as prawns. The Austrians gave way, and the flight was so swift that the cook's body had to be left with the kitchen duffle for the Russians to burn or cover. Atlas, the burden-bearer in the correspondent's service, manifested intelligence when Archer spoke of his need for a new cook. Here was a wide-nostriled peasant to all appearances - stupid at times as a cretin of the Alps.

Atlas cared for Archers two saddle-horses and the pack-mule. He made camps quickly. What he knew besides this he took no pains to show.

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