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CHAPTER I—At tbeir home on the fronr- tier between tfae Browne and Omye Mar¬ ie QanaitA and her mother, entertaining Colonel Weaterllnc of the Orera. eee Ca^ t*ln Lanatron, etaft intelUannce offlcer of the Browne, Injured br a tall In hla aer»- pbuoe.
CHAPTKR n—Ten Taara later. Wea¬ terllnc nominal rloa bat real eblef of ¦taff. ralnforoaa South Ve TIr, medttatoa on war, and apeoulatea on tha oompara- Uve a««a ~t>f himaaU and Karta. who la Tlnltlnc la the Otar oatritaL
CHAPrUR ni—Wee^erHnir calle on Marta. Bha tell* hlni of ber teaohlajr ehildran the folllee of war and martial patrlotlam. ben blm to ncwrent war wbUe b« la chief of ¦tall, and pradlota that If be niakea war acatnat tA* Browaa he win aot win.
CHAPTER lY—On tha march with tbe Od of the Browne Prlrate Itranakr. aaar- efalet, deorlaa war and plared-out patrlot¬ lam aad la plaoad under arreat. Colonel Lanatroa orerhearina, befs blm off earlnjr the aaarchlat will Hcht wall wben eo- ta«ad and ia "all man."
CHAFTB!R T—Lanetroo calla on ICarta at har boma. Ha UUca with reller, tbe fardener. Karta talla Lanatrom that eha belleTea Peller to be a apr. I^aiMtron nnnfr«n~-i It la trua.
CHAPTER VI-Lanatron ahowa Marta a telephone which Feller haa conoaalad la a aecret paaaace under tha tower for uee to baneflt the Browne in war emergan- claa, volntlnc out Ita yahie aa balaf In the oeatar of the flfhtlnjr aona In caae of war. Marta conacnta for It and Peller to remain for the preeent. t^netron de- olahTOfi hie Ipve for Marta.
CHAPTER VII-Weaterlln» and the Orar premier plan to uee a trlrlal inter¬ national afTair to foment warlike patrlol- lam In army and people and strike bafore declarlnir war. Partow, Brown chief of ¦taff, and Lanatron, made vice, dlacuaa the trouble, and the Brown defanaea. Par- tow reveala bia plana to Lanatron.
CHAPTER Vin — At the frontier the two armlea lie crouched for attack and defense. In the town with the non-com- batanta fleelna from the dancer aona, Marta hears bar child impils recite the Deaoe oath.
CHAPTER IX—The Qray army croaaaa tha border line and attacks. The Browns check them. Artillery. Infantry, aero¬ planes and dirigibles encase. Stranaky, rUinK to make the anarchist speech of his life, draws the Orav artillery Are. Nicked by a shrapnel splinter he goes Berserk and flahta—"all a man."
CHAPTER X — Marta has her flrat glimpse of war In Its modern, cold, scien¬ tific, murderous brutality. She allows the secret telephone to remain.
CHAPTER XI-The Browne fall back to the Galland house. Stransky foragea. Marta aeaa a night attack.
I MAr-tKit All—The dftays attack In force. The cull of thp flKlit too .strong tOr FpIUt. he le.Tvcs his secret telephonp luiil KiKs back to hi.s Kuna. Mund to hand nghtlng. The Browns fall back again
CHAPTICU XIII-Marta nsks I.aiistron over till' si'iTi't tiili-phoriH to appi-al to I'.-.rtow to stop the (Ightlng-. VaiRlallsni by Gray HnUlier.s In the Galland house whUh, Malta In notlfl.d, will be made Wedtcrllng's headauarters.
j Mer b<ad dropped lower, In appar¬ ent disregard of bia presence, aa ahe took counsel with herself. She was perfectly still, without even the move¬ ment of an eye-lash. Other considera¬ tions than any he might suggest, he I subtly understood, held her attention. I They were the criterioc by which she I would at length assent or dissent, and I nothing could huriTf tne Marta ot to- I day, who yesterday had been a ! creature of feverish impulse. i It seemed a long time that he wae j watching that wonderful profile under the very black hair, soft with the soft¬ ness of flesh, yet firmly carved. She ! lifted her head gradually, her eyes I sweeping past the sjKit where Del- I larme had lain dying, wfiere Feller had manned the automatic, where Stransky had thrown Pilzer over the parapet. lie saw the glance arrested and focussed on the flag of the Grays, which was floating from a staff on the outskirts of the town, and slowly, glowingly, the light rippling on its folds was reflected in htr face.
"She is for us! She is a Gray!" he thought triumphantly. The woman and the flag! The matter-of-fact staff- officer felt the thrill of sentiment.
"I think we can arnuige it," Marta
announced with a rare .smile of assent.
"Then I'll go back to town and set
the signal-corps men to work," he
said.
"And when you como you will flnd the house at your diepoeai," she as¬ sured him.
Except that he was raising his cap Instead of saluting, he was conscious of withdrawing with the deference due to a superior.
In place of the smile, after he had gone, came a frown and a look in her eyes as if at something revolting; then the smile returned, to be suc¬ ceeded by the frown, which was fol¬ lowed by an indeterminate shaking of the head.
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Yet .Marta, returning to the hall, had to steady herselt in a dizzy moment agaiiiBt llie wall, ("oiiiplete reaction had come. She craved sleep as if it were the one true, real thing in the world. Slie craved sleep tor the clarity of mind that come« with the morning lis-ht. In the hazinej:s of fleecy thought, a.s slumber drew ils soft clouds around her, h(.'r^ast conucious vijions were the pleasant ones rising free oT a bacUi,'round of horror; of Feller's sniiie when he went back to his auto¬ matic fur good; of iJcllanne's smile as he was dying; of Strantiky's suiile as Minna gave him hope; and of Hugo's I'ac^ a.s he uttered his lUile-like cry ¦Of protest. In her ears were the haunt¬ ing calmness and contained force of Lanstron's voice over the telephone. She was pleased to think that'she had not lost her temiier in her talk with the tJtaff-oHicer. No, she had not flared once in indignation. It was as if she had absorbed some of Lanny's own self-control. Laiiiiy would approve of her in that scene with an ofluer of the Grays. And she realized, that a change had come over her—a change Ine.x- plicable and telling—and she was I afraid of a single future, may employ
CHAPTER XIV.
Tea on the Veranda Again.
It was more irritating than ever for Mrs. Galland to keep pace with her daughter's inconsistencies. Here was Marta saying coolly:
" Unto Caesar the things that are Caesar's!' We have our property, our home to protect. Perhaps the Grays have come to stay for good, so graciousness is our only weapon. We cannot flght a whole army single- handed."
"You have found that out, Marta?" said .Mrs. Galland.
"We have four rooms in the baron's tower and a kitchen stove," .Marta pro¬ ceeded. "With .Minna we can make ourselves very comfortable and leave the house to the staff."
"The Gallands in their gardener's quarters! The staff of the Grays in ours! Your father will turn in his grave!" .Mrs. Galland ' exclaimed.
"Cut, mother, it is not quite agree¬ able to think of three women living in the same house with a score of strange men!" Marta persisted.
"1 had not thought of that, Marta. Of <•'> ivi,.. It would be abominable!" agr 'rs. Galland, prom;)tIy capitu-
latii,-. iiere a point of propriety waa involved.
When .Marta iiifcnnied the offlcer— the same one who had rung the door¬ bell on his second visit—of the family's decision he ai»peared bhocked at tho idea of evi( tion that was implied. Hut, secretly pleu^^rd at tlie tuirn of eveiiLs. he hastened to apologize for w.-.r'i-: brutal nec(>s*ities, "imtl .Maria's com plaisance In] him to consider himself something of a diplomatist. Ves. mort; than ever he was convinced of the wisdom of an invader ringiii.:; dour- bells.
.Meanv.hlle, tlii' s:'rvicecoii)s men had continued their work until now there was no vestige of war in the grounds that labor could obliterate; and masons had conje to repair the walls of thehot>r;e itself and plasterers to renew the broken ceilings.
All this .Marta regarded in a kind of charmed wonder that an invader could be so considerate. Her manner with the officers in chjjrge of i)repara- tions had tho simplicity and ease which a woman of twenty-seven, who is not old-muidish because she is not
nuipfl dotted with brown and gray | flags. Poitable field cabinets with sectional maps on a large «cale were arranged around the walls of the draw I ing-room. In what had been the loung- j Ing-room of the old days of Galland prosperity, tbe refrain of half a dozen telegraih Instruments made medley ' with the clicking of typewriters. Cooks I
for the staff were to live like gentle- j men; they were to have their morning i baths, their comfortable beds, and ' regular meals. No twinge of indiges- \ tion or oi rheumatism from e.\]K)suie was to interfere with the working of i their precious intellectual proi esses. ' No detail of assistance %\ou'd be lack- '¦ ing to save any bureaucratic head time j and labor. The bedrooms were appor¬ tion* d according to rank—that of the I master awaited the mu.iter; the best j servant's bedroom awaited Francois. ' his valet. i
When Bouchard,'the chief of intelli- j gence. who fought the battle of wits i and spies against Lanstron. came, two ' hours before Westerling was due, the last of the staff except Westerling and i his personal aide had arrived. Uouch- ' ard, with his iron-gray hair, bushy eye- j brows, strong, aquiline nose, and j hawk-like eyes, his mouth hidden by I a bristly mustache, wa« le^n and sat- < urnine. and he was loyal. .\o jealous | thought entered his mind at having to , serve a man younger than himself. ' He did not serve a personality: he «er\'ed a chief of staff and a prote^-
¦ion. The score of words which es¬ caped him as he looked over the ar¬ rangements were all of directing criti¬ cism and bitten off sharply, as if he regretted that he had to waste breath in communicating even a thought.
"1 tell nothing, but you tell me i everything!" said Bouchard's hawk eyes. He was old-fashioned; he looked his part, which was one of the many points of difference between him and Lanstron as a chief of Intelligence.
It lacked one minute to four -vhen Hed worth Westerling, chief of staff in name as well as' power now, alighted from the gray automobile that turned In at the Galland drive. His Excel¬ lency had not occupied hie new head¬ quarters as soon as he expected, hut this could have no influence on results. If he had lost fifty thousand.men on the flrst two days and two hundred thousand since the war had begun, should he allow this to disturb his well-being of body or mind? His well- being of body and mind meant the ulti¬ mate saving of lives.
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tired—oh, so tired! It had been ex¬ hausting work, indeed, for one woman, though she had been around the world, making war on two armies.
Tho general staff-officer of the Grays, who had tasted .Marta's temper on his lirst call, when he returned the next morning did not enter unannounced. He rang the door-bell.
"1 have a messages for you from Gen¬ eral Westerling," he said to her. "The general expresses his deep regret at the unavoidable damage to your house and grounds and has directed that everything possible be done immedi¬ ately in the way of repairs."
In proof of this the oflicer called at¬ tention to a group of service-corpa men who were removing the eand-bags from the first terrace. Others were at work In the garden setting uprooted plants baMi Into the earth.
'His Excellency says," continued the officer, "tbat, although the house is so admirably suited for staff pur¬ poses, we will find another If you de¬ sire."
He was too polite and too consid¬ erate in his ^ttltude for Marta not to meet him in the same spirit.
"That is what we should naturally prefer," and Marta bowed her head in indecision.
"We should have to begin installing tbe telegraph and telephone service on the lower floor at once," he remarked. "In fact, all arrangements must be made before the general's arrival."
"He has been a guest here before." sbe said reminlscently and detachedly.
as a serene hostess. She frequently asked if there were good news.
"Yes," was the uniform reply. An unexpected setback here or resistance there, but progress, nevertheless. But she learned, too, that the lirst two days' fighting along the frontier had cost the Grays flfty thousand casual¬ ties. ~ *^
"In order to make an omelet you must break eggs!" she remarked.
"Spoken like a true soldier—like a member of the staff!" was the reply. In her constraint and detachment they realized her conscious apprecia¬ tion of the fact that in earlier times her people had been for the Browns; but in her flashes of interest in the progress of the war, flashes from a woman's unmilitary mind, they Judged that her heart was with the Grays. And why not? Was it not natural that a woman with more than her share of Intellectual percejition should be on the right side? Frora her associations It waa not to. be expected that she would make au outright declaration of apostasy. This would destroy the value and the attractiveness of her conver- ¦sion. Reverence for the past, for a father who had fought for the Browne, against her own convictions, made her attitude appear singularly and deli¬ cately correct.
The war was a week old—a week which had developed other tangents and trups than La Tir—on tbe morn¬ ing that tbe first Installment of junior officers came to occupy tbe tables and desks. Where the family portraits had bung iu the dlnlng-room were now big
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a number of reports and suggestions. Westerling ran through them with ac¬ customed swiftness of .sifting and then turned to his personal aide.
"Tell Francois that I will havo tea on the veranda."
From the fact that he took with him the papers that he had laid aelde, sub¬ ordinate generals, with the gift of un¬ spoken directions which is a part of their profession, understood that ho meant to go over tho subjects requir¬ ing si>ecial attention while he bad tea.
"Everything Is going well—well!" he added.
"Well!" ran tho unspoken communl- , cation of confidence through the staff. So well that His Excellency was ] calmly taking tea on the veranda! For ' the indefatigable Turcas the detail; ' for Westerling the front of Jove.
He had toltj Marta only two weeks i ago that he should see her again if war came; and war had come. With i the Inviting prospect of a few holiday I moments in which to continue the In- ' tervlew that had been abruptly con¬ cluded in a hotel reception-room, he ¦ started dowu the terrace steps. Above . the second terrace he saw a crown of woman's hair—hair of jet abundance, shading a face that brought familiar i completeness to the scene. Their glances met where the path ended at the second terrace flight; bers shot with a beam of restrained and ques¬ tioning good humor that spoke at least a truce to tbe Invader.
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