opposing
fire, and
as far as
human
endurance
would be
goaded.
Then it
went down,
and its
survivors
attached
themselves
to the
succeeding
wave.
Hence, by
the time
the fifth
and
mightiest
wave got
into
motion, it
was
swelled by
the
survivors
of all
four of
its
predecessors
and was an
all-but-resistless
mass of
shouting
and
running
men. The
rifles and
machine-guns
of the
Here-We-Comes
played
merrily
into the
advancing
gray
swarms,
stopping
