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CHAPTKR I—At tto«Ir hotna on fhe fron¬ tier between th* Browna and Oran Mar¬ ta Oalland and har mother, antartalnln* Colonel WeaterUrr of the Or«ya. •«• Cap¬ tain Lanstron. staff IntalUaance offlcsr of tha Browna, Injured hy a fail In hla aero¬ plane.
CHAPTEB n-Ten yeara later. "Weo- terllna. nominal rice but real chief of staff, r«lnforo«i Bouth La Tir, medlUtea on war, and speGulatea on tha oompara- t\ra aeaa ot blmaelf and Marta. who U vlaltlnc In the Oray caoltal.
CHAPTBra m-Westerllnr caHs on Marta. Bha tells him of bar taachlnx children tha follies of war and martial patriotism, bers him to prevent war while he Is chlrf of staff, and prwltcta that if he makes war agalnat the Browns he will not wln-
CHAPTER r\r—On tha march with th* «8d of the Browns Private Stransky, anar¬ chist, decrloB war and played-out patriot¬ ism and Is placed under arrest. Colonel lanstron oyerhearinK. begs him off saylnji the anarchist will fl^ht well whan an- rajcad ahd la "all man."
CHAPTER V—Lanstron calls on Marta at her home. He talks with Feller, tha gardener. Marta tells Lanatrom that she believes Feller to be a spy. I^anstron oonreasna It Is trua.
CHAPTER VI-Lanstron shows Marta a telephone which Feller has concealed In a secret passage under the tower for use to benefit tha Browna In war emergen- cles, polnUng out it.<i value as being In the center of the flghting sone In ca.se ot war. Marta consents for Jt and Feller to remain for the present. Lanstron d»- daras hia IS'? for Marta.
CHAPTER Vll-Westerllng and the ilray premier plan to use a trivial inter¬ national affair to foment warlike patriot¬ ism In army and people and strike betoro declaring war. Partow, Urown chief ot staff, and Lanstron, made vice, dlsru.ss the trouMe, and tlie Hrown defenses. Par¬ tow reveals his plans to Lanstron.
CHAPTER Vin - At tha frontier tho two armies lie crouched for attack and dt^fense. In the town with the non-com- l):itant8 fle'-liii< trcini tho dangiir zoiii.'. Mfirtii lu'ars lier child pupils recite the Utai'o outh.
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rnaglcally "quick effect on his atti¬ tude.
"I beg your pardon! I forgot!" ho explained in his old man's voice, hia head sinliing, his shoulders drooping la the humility of a servant who rec¬ ognizes that he has been properly re¬ buked for presumption. "Not a gun¬ ner any more—I'm a spy!" he thought, as ho shuflled off \vithout looking toward the batteries again, though the music of wheels and hoofs was now close by.
Idpntlfytng each one at the faithful with a glance, "bare ao many broth- era and siatera tbat they will hardly be missed from the flock. Othsrs bave no homee-^-at least not much of a one"—here her temper roae again— "taxes being so high In order that you may organize murder and the deatnio- tlon of property."
"Now really, Mlsa Galland," be be¬ gan Bolicttoualy, "I have been assigned to move tbe ciVil population in case of attack. Your children ought—" I "After school! You have your duty this morning and I have mine!" Marts interrupted pleaaantly, and turned , toward the chapel.
I "Tbey are putting aharpabootera In ' tbe church tower to get tbe aero- planea, and there are lots of tbe little guna that fire bullets ao faat you can't I count 'em—and Uttle apring wagona with dynamite to blow thinga up— and—" Jacky Werther ran on In a aeries of vocal explosions aa Marta opened the door to let the children go in.
"Tet you came!" said Marta with a hand caressingly on bis ahoulder.
"It looks pretty bad for peace, but we came," answered Jacky, round- eyed, in loyalty. "We'd come right through bullets 'cause we said we would if we wasn't sick, and we wasn't Blck."
"My seven disciples—seven!" ct- clalmed Marta aa sbe counted tbem. "And you need not sit on the regular seats, but around me on the platform. It will be more intimate."
"That's grand!" came In chorus. Tbey did not bother about chairs, but seated themselves on tbe floor around Marta's skirts.
The church clock boomed out Its de¬ liberate strokes through ten, the hour set for the lesson, and all counted tbem—one—two—three. Marta was thinking what a dismal little effort theirs was, and yet she was very hap¬ py, tremblingly happy In her distrac¬ tion and e.\citement, that they had not waited for her at the door of the chapel In vain.
She announced that there would be no talk thle morning; they would only say their oath. Repeating In concert the pledgo to the boys and girls of other lands, the childish voices pecu¬ liarly sweet and harmonious In con¬ trast to the raucous and uneven sounds of foreboding from the street, they came in due course to the words of the concession that tho oath made to militancy:
"If an enemy tries to take my land—"
"Children—I—" Jfarta interrupted with a setise of wonder and shock. They paused and looked at her ques- tioningly. "! had almost forgotten that part!" she breathed confusedly. 1
"That's the part that makes all we're doing against the Grays right!" put in Jacky Wertlier promptly.
"Aa I wrote it for you! '1 shall ap¬ peal to his sense of justice aud reason wilh him—'"
Jaws dropped and eyes bulged, for
Marta had a glimpse of him as she ] above the Rounds of tho street rose
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turned away. "Me is what he is be¬ cause of the army; a victim of a cult, a habit," she was thinking. "Had ho been in any other calling his fine qual¬ ities might lia\e been of service to the world and he would have been happy." A company of Infantry resting among their stat ked rifles changed tho color of the square in the dietance from the gray pavement to the brown of a mass of uniforms. In the middle of the main street a major of the bri¬ gade staff, with a number of junior officers and orderlies, was evidently waiting on some signal. Sentries were posted at regular intervals along the curb. The people in the houses and shops from time to time stopped pack¬ ing up their effects long enough to go to the doors and look up and down apprehensively, asking bootless, ner¬ vous questions.
"Are they coming yet?" "Do you think they will come?" "Are you sure it's going to be war?" "Will they shell the town?" "There'll be time enough for you to get away!" shouted the major. "All we know is what is written in our In¬ structions, and we shall act on them when the thing starts. Then we are in command. Meanwhile, get ready!"
from the distance tho unmistakable crackling of rifle lire which, as they listened, spread and Increased In vol¬ ume.
"Go on—on to the end ot the oath! It will take only a moment," said Marta resolutely. "It isn't much, but it's the best we can do!"
CHAPTER IX.
The Baptism of Fire. All the landscape in front of Fra¬ casse's company seemed to have been deserted; no moving ligurca were any¬ where in eight; no sign of the enemy's infantry.
Faintly the town clock was heard striking the hour. From eight to nine and nine to ten Fracasse's men wait¬ ed; waited until the maeiitaM VM ready and Westerling should throw in the clutch; wailed until the troops were ia place for the flrst move before he hurled his battalions forward. They did not know how the captain at their back received his orders; they only heard tho note of tho whistle, with a command familiar to a trained Instinct on the edge of anticipation. It released a spring in their nerve-cen¬ ters. They resjionded aa tlie wheels Then the major became aware of a respond when the throttle is opened, young woman who wae going in the Jumping to thefr feet they broke into wrong direction. Her cheeks were a run, bodies b.iil, heads down, like flushed from her rapid walk, her lips the peppered silhouette that faced were parted, showing firm, white* Westerling's de^k. What they had
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said very politely, "you may not go any farther^ Until we have other orders or thfy attack every one' is supposed to remain lu hia houee or his place of business."
"This la my place of business!" Maddin's Lamp, is a magic source of i M''»^t«^,,a"«^^-«'-ed. for. she was already
' opposite a small, disused chapel which
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was her schoolroom, where a half dozen of the faithful children were gathered around the masculine impor¬ tance of Jacky Werther, one of tho older boye.
"Then you are Miss Galland!" said the mpjor, enlightened. His smile had an appreciation of the irony of her oc¬ cupation at that moment. "Your chil¬ dren are very loyal. They would not tell me where they lived, so we bad to let them stay there."
"Those who have homes," she said,
done repeatedly iu drills and maneu- vera they were now doing in war, me¬ chanically aa marionettes.
"Come on! The bullet is not made that can get me! Come on!" cried tlu,\ giant Eugene Aronton.
.Nearly all felt tho exhilaration of movement iu company. Then came the sound that generations had drilled lor without hearing; the sound that fiummons the Imagination of man in tho thought of how he will feel and act when he hears it; the sound that is everywhere like the song snatches of bees driven whizzing through the air.
•n wi.r ever kills a m|an"—but he waa cerUin tbat he had heard a million alre^idy. He looked around to flnd that he was still keeping up with Eu¬ gene and felt the thrill of tbe bravery of fellowship at aight of tbe giant'a fluehed, confident face reveling in the spirit of a charge. And then, just then, Eugene convulsively threw up his arms, dropped his rifle, and whirled on bis beeL As he went down his hand clutched at bis left breast and came away red -and dripping. After one wild backward glance, Pe¬ terkin plunged ahead.
"Eugene!" Hugo Mallln bad stopped and bent over Eugene in the supreme Instinct of that terrible second, aup- poKing his comrade'a head.
"The bullet ia not—maxle—" Eugene whiepered. tbe ruling passion strong to the laat A flicker of the eyelids, a gurgle in the throat, and be was dead.
"Here, you are not going to get out tbis way!" Fracasse shouted. In tbe irritation of haste, slapping Hugo with hia aword. "Oo on! That's hospital- corps work."
Hugo had a glimpse of the captain's rigid features and a last one of Eu¬ gene's, white and etill and yet as If he were about to speak his favorite boast; then he hurried on, his side glance showing other proserate forms. One form a few yards away half rose to call "Hospital!" and fell back, struck mortally by a second bullet.
"That's wbat you get If you forget Instructions," said Fracasee witb no sense of brutality, only professional exasperation. Keep down, you wound¬ ed men!" he shouted at the top of his voice.
The colonel of the 128th had not looked for immediate resistance. He had told Fracasse's men to occupy the knoll expeditiously. But by the com¬ mon Impulse of military training, no lese than In answer to the whistle's call, in face of the withering fire they dropped to earth at the base of a knoll, where Hugo threw himself down at full length in hia place in line next to Peterkin.
"F'lre pointblank at the crest In front of you! I saw a couple ot men standing up there!" called Fracasse. "Fire fast! That's tbe way to keep down their fire—pointblank, I tell you! You're firing into the sky! I want to see more dust kicked up. p-ire fast! We'll have them out of there Boon! They're only an outpost."
Hugo was firing vaguely, like a man In a dream. I'ilzor was shooting to kill. His eye had tho steely gle.-.m of his rifle sight and the liver patch on hia cheek was a deeper hue aa he sought to avenge Eugene'a death. Drowned by the racket of their own lire, not even I'eterkin was hearirig the whisli-whish of tho bullets from Deilarme's comiiany now. Ho did not know that tho blacksmith's son, who
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Pilzer Was Shooting to Kill. i
vu« tho fourth man from him, hiy witli j hi.s chill (JU hiK rille stoc k and ii tiii.v | trickle of blood from a holo in hi:* ] forehead ruiuiliiK down tho bridge of J his nose.
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"Crcpp up I Don't show yourKiMvos! ' t'reop up — carefully—carefully!" ho kept repeating as they crawled tor- ; ward on their stomachs. "And no on(.' j is to lire until the command comes." j
Hugging the cover of the ridge of i fresh earth which they liad thrown up ;
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"That's it! We're under fire! We're | the previous night, they watched the under fife!" flaHhed a crooked li^ht- . \\hite posts. Stransky, who had been
ning recognition ot the sound through every brain.
There was no sign or the enemy; no telling where the bulleti came from.
Whlsh-whlsh! Thipp-whlng! Tho refrain gripped Pctcrkin's imagination with an unseen hand. He seemed to be suffocating. He wanted to throw himself down and hold his hands in front of his head. While Pilzer fcnd Aronson were not thinking, only run ning, Peterkin was thnking^with the rapidity of a man falling from a high redyed, a reasonable building. He vas certain only that be was bound to strike ground.
"An inch Is as good es a mile!" He recollected the captain's teaching "Only one of. a thousand bullets flred
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ruminatively silent all the morning, was in his place, but he was not look¬ ing at the enemy. Cautiously, to avoid a reprimand, he raised his head to en¬ able him to glance along the line. All the faces) seemed drawn and clayish.
"They don't want to fight! They're just here because they're ordered here Wid haven't the character to defy au¬ thority," he thought. "The leaven Is working! My time is coming!"
For Dellarme the minute had come when all his training was to be put to a test. The figures on the other side c* tho white posts were rising, Ile was to prove by the wa'y he diiected :. com¬ pany of infantry in action whether cr not he was worthy of his captain's rank. He smiled cheerily. In order
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