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CHAPTER I—At their home on tha fron¬ tier between the Browns and Grays Mar¬ ta Oalland and her mother, entertalntitg Colonel Westerling of the Grays, see Cap¬ tain Lanstron. staff Intelligence officer ot the Browns, Injured by a fall In hia aaro- [ilane.
CHAPTER II—Ten years later. Wes¬ terling. nominal vice but real chief of staff, reinforces South I^a Tir, meditates on war, and speculates on the compara¬ tive agres of himself and Marta, who Is vlsltlnK In the Gray capital
CHAPTKU Ill-Westerlln? ca'ls on Marta. dhe teila him of hpr teaching children the follli's of war and marttii patriotism, be^.s him to prevent war wiille ne Is chief of staff, and predlcjj thnt li" tie makes war against the Biowni he will ntit win.
CHAPTER IV—On tho march with the 63d of tde Mrownn I'rivale .Stransky, anar¬ chist. dt'crlc-3 war on.I pliy;eil-out pitrlot- Isiii and Is placi^i] undtr an*fat. Colon>l Lanstron overhfarlnk'. bega lum o.t sayinsj Ihe iinar'/hlal will tight wuU when en- jii;;pd and li« "all ni.in " M*CIIAPTEIi V-Lanstron r.nV.a on Startn at htr honit). Iiu f.lka with Keller, tlio gardener. .M.arta tell.s Lanstrom tlial Bii'.- I.ellr-vis Teller to bo a spy. Lan.stron LDiifi's.si'a It U tnin.
CllAFTKR Vt—Lanstron shows Martn a I'li'yhonu wlil'h Keller has coiicealiHl la a Secret passage iiniha- the tower for us') to benellt the HruwiLS In war emerjjea- iles, pointlntf out Its valui! as belni; in tlie center of llm flfflitlng zone In case of war. Marta conaenls tor It nnd Kell r to reniaia for the present. I.aascron de- elnjes hja love for Marta.
CHAPTKR Vn-Wo.slerllncr nnd tho Oray jreniier pl;j.ii to u.se a trivial liUei.- fialional aiTair to foment warlike palrioi- Isni In army and people and strike before iiei:larlng' war. Partow, Hrown chief of f-tafr, anil L.Tnstrun, made vice, diseiis.s the tro'jhlo, and the Brown deferiifes. I'ar- tow reveala hla plaiw to Lanstron.
CHAPTER VIII — At tho frontier tho two armies He crouched for attaek an.l (lefenHO. In the town with the non-coni- tiatants lleelnB from the danger zone, Marta heara her child pupils recite tho peace oath.
CHAPTKR IX-The Cray army crosses the horil.r- line and attacks. The Rrowna check them. Artillery, infantry, aero¬ planes and illrl>;ible3 engage. Stranakv. rising to make the anarchist speech of hi.-, life, draws the Gray artillery flre. Nickel hy a .shrapnel splint»-r he goes Berserk and fights—"all a man."
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The good, for he had a glimpse of blue sky. No, that could not be, for he h..d been alive when he leaped for the crater, and there he was pressed against the soft earth of its bottom. He burrowed deeper bliss^^j^ He was the nearest to the erff^p^l^any man of the ]28th, and he certainly had passed through a gamut of erno- tioua in the half-hour since Eugene Aronson had leaped over a white post.
"Confound it! If we'd kept on we'd have got them! Now we have to do it all over again!" growled Fracasse distractedly as he looked around at the faces hugging the cover of the shoulder—faces asking. What next? each in its own way; faces blank and white; faces with lips working and eyes blinking; faces with the blood rushing back to cheeks In baffled an¬ ger. Oue, however, was half smiling— Hugo Mallin's.
"You did your share of the running, I'll warrant, MalUn!" said Fracasse excitedly, venting his disgust on a particular object.
"Yes, sir," answered Hugo. "It was very hard to maintain a semblance of dignity. Yes. sir, I kept near you all the time. Wasn't that what you wanted me to do, sir?"
Three or four men burst Into a hys¬ terical laugh as If something had bro¬ ken In their throats. Everybody felt better for this touch of drollery except the captain. Yet, possibly, it may have helped him In recovering his poise. Sometimes even a pin-prick will have this effect.
"Silence!" he said In his old man¬ ner. "I will give you something to joke about other than a little setback like this! Get up there with your rifles!"
He formed the nucleus of a firing-
CHAI^TER X.
Marta'* FIr«t Glimpse of War, As Marta and the children came to the doot of the chapel after the reci¬ tation of the oath, she saw the civil population moving along the street In the direction of the range. There was nothing for Marta to do but start homeward. The thought that her mother was alcne rr.ade her hasten at a pace much more rapid than the pro¬ cession of people, whose talk and ex¬ clamations formed a monotone audi¬ ble in Its nearness, despite the continu¬ ous rifle-fire, now broken by the pound¬ ing of the guns.
j "It's ail done ro beat the Grays, ten't It, Mlsa Galland? They are trying to ¦take our land," said Jack/ Werther ^ aa MaVta parted from him.
"Yes, it Is done to beat the Grays."
she answered. "Good luck, Jacky!"
I Yes, yes, to beat the Grays! The
' same idea-thf fiphtinf nature, the
, brute nature of man—animated both
sides. Had the lirowns renlly tried for
': peace? Had tlif y. in the spirit of her
loatli. iippealoij to juatice and reason?
I Why hadn't t!i<ir premier iK'fore all
¦the world said to the premier of ths
GrnvB, as one honest, friendly neigh-
i bor to another over a matter of dis-
pjite:
j "We do n-^t uarit war. We know you outminihiT us. but wn knov.- you writCT'riot 4ako advantage of tliat. If wo are wrong «e v.U\ make amc-nds: If you are wrouf^ we know that you vyill. Let us not play tricks in pecret to pain points, we civili/ed nationa, but be frank witli each other. Let u.s not try to irritit" fach other or to in- fliienre onr iioo])1p, hut to rrrilize how much we lm^o in common and that our only purpo.sp is common progress and hnppiness."
At tiie turn ot the road in front of Tlie rastle slif saw fhe gunners of tho batteries making an emplacement for their guns in a field of carrots that had not yet boen harvested. The roots of golden yellow were mi.xed with the tossing sp.T-lefuls of earth.
A shadow like a great cloud in mad flight s-iK't o\ IT the earth, and with the gunners she looked up to s^e a Gruy ilirigible. Already It was turning homeward: already it had gained its object as a scout. On the fragile ^Dlat- form of the gondola was a man, spem- ingly a human mite aiming a tiny toy gun. His target was one of the Brown aeroplanes.
"They're in danger of cutting their own envelope! They can't get the an¬ gle! The plane is too high!" ex¬ claimed tho artillery commander. Roth lip and ills men forgot their work in watching the spectacle of aerial David against aerial Goliath. "If our man lands with his little bomb, oh, my!" he grinnod. "That's why he is so high. He's been waiting up there."
exclaimed one
"Marta, wlutvrer happena one should go regularly about what he considers his duty," eaid Mrs. Oalland. ^ "Tliey have been as considerate as they could, evidently by Colonel Lan¬ stron's orders," she proceeded, nod¬ ding toward the industrious englneera. "And they've packed all the paintings
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"Pray God he will! of the gunners.
"Look at him volplane—motor at full speed, too!"
"Into it! Making sure! Oh, splen— O!" cried the artillery commander.
A bail of lightning shot forth sheets of flame. Dirigible and plane were hidden in an ugly swirl of yellowish smoke, rolling out into a purple cloud that spread into prismatic mist over the descent of cavorting human bodies and broken macliinery and twisted braces, flying pieces of tattered or burning cloth. David has taken Goliath down with him in a death grip.
An aeroplane following the dirigible as a screen, hoping to get home with information if the dirigible were lost, had escaped the sharpshooters in the church tower by flying around the town. However, it ran within range of the automatic and the sharpshooters on top of the castle tower. They failed of the bull's-eye, but their bullets, rim¬ ming the target, crippling the motor, and cutting braces, brought the crum¬ pling wings about the helpless pilot. The watching gunners uttered "Ahs!" of horror and triumph as they saw him fall, gliding this way and that, in the agony of slow descent
"Come, now!" called the artillery commander. "We are wasting pre¬ cious time."
Enterips the ground:'! of the Galland hous^T'Marta had to pass to one side of the path, now blocked by army wagons and engineer.s' materials and tools. Soldiers carrying sand-bags were taking the sbj^rtest cut, tram¬ pling the flowers on their way.
"Do you know whose property this is?" sho demanded in a burst ot an¬ ger.
"Ours—the nation's!" answered one, perspiring freely at his work. "Sor¬ ry!" he added on second thought.
Already parts of tho first terrace were shoulder-high with Hand-bags and one automatic had been set in place, Marta observed as sho turned to the veranda. There her mother sat in her favorite chair, hands relaxed aa they rested on its arms, while she looked out over the valley in the supertran- quility that comes to some women under a strain—as soldiers who have been on sieges can teli you—that some psychologists Interpret one way and some another, none knowing even their own wives.
"Marta, did any of the children come?" Mrs. Galland asked in her usual pleasant tone. So far as she was concerned, the activity on ths terrace did not exist. She seemed ob¬ livious of the fact of war.
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The second battalion of the 128th, which faced tbe knoll, was also digging at the base of the slope, and another regiment in reserve was deploying on the plain. After the fail¬ ure to rush the knoll the Gray com¬ mander had settled down to the busi¬ ness of a systematic approach.
And what of those of Fracasse's men who had not rug but had dropped In their tracks when the charge halt¬ ed? They were between two lines of file. There was no escape. Some of the wounded had a mercifully quick end, others suffered the conBciousness of being hit again and again; the dead were bored through with bullet holes. In torture, the survivors prayed for death; for all had to die except Peter- kin, the pasty-faced little valet's son.
Peterkin was quite safe, hugging the bottom of the. shell crater under a swarm of hornets. In a surprisingly short time he became accustomed to
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and works cf art and put tlieni in tho cellar, where they will be safe."
The captain of engineers in com¬ mand, seeing Marta, hurried toward her.
"Miss Galland, isn't it?" he asked. "I have Ween waiting for you. 1—1— Veil, 1 found tliai 1 could not make vhe situation clear to your motlier. '
"He thinks me in my second cliild- hood or out of my iiead," Mrs. Galland explained with a shade of tartness. "And he lias been so polite in trying to conceal his opinion, too," she added with a comprehending smile.
The captain flushed in embarrass¬ ment.
"I—I can't si>eak too strongly," he declared when he had regained hia composure. "Though everything seems to be safe here now, it may not be in an hour. You must go, all of you. This house will be an inferno as eoon as the 53d fails back, and I can't, pos¬ sibly get your mother to appreciate (he fact. Miss Galland."
"But 1 said that I did appreciate it and that the Gallands have been In infernos before—perhaps not as bad as this one that is coming—but, then, the Gallands must keep abreast of the times," replied .Mrs. Galland. "I have asked Minna and she prefers to re¬ main. I am glad of that. I am glad now that we kept her, Marta. She is as loyal as my old maid and the butler and tiie cook were to your grand¬ mother in the last war. Ah, the Gal¬ lands had many .servants then!"
"This isn't like tho old war. This place will be shelled, enfiladed! And you two—" the captain protested de«- perately.
"I became a Galland when I mar¬ ried," said Mrs. Galland, -"and the Galland women have always remained with their property in time of war. Naturally, I shall remain!"
"Miss Galland, it was you—your in¬ fluence I was counting on to—" The captain turned to Slarta in a flnal ap¬ peal.
Mrs. Galland was watching her daughter's face intently.
"We stayj" replied Marta, and the captain saw in the depths of her eyes, a cold blue-black, that further argu¬ ment was useless.
Now came the sweep of a rising roar from the sky with tho command to at¬ tention of the rush of a fast express- train past a country railway station. Two Gray dirigibles with their escort of aeroplanes were bearing toward the pass oyer the pass road. Tlio auto¬ matic and the riflemen in the tower banged away to no [)urpose, but the central ses tions of tlie envelope of the rear dirigible had been torn in slireds; it was buckling. Clouds of blue shrap¬ nel smnke broke around Its gondola. A number of fftT-M-guns Joined forces witii a battery of high-angle guns in a havoc that left a drifting derelict; the remainder of tho equadron had com¬ pleted its loop and was pointing toward the plain.
From a great altitude, literally out of the blue of heaven, high over the Gray lines, Marta made out a Rrown squadron of dirigibles and planes de¬ scending across the track of the Grays.
The Gray dirigibles, stern on, were little larger than umbrellas and the planes tban swallows; the Brown diri¬ gibles, side on, were big saucages and their planes specks. To the eye, this meeting was like that of two small flocks of soaring birds apparently un-' able to chaflge their course. But imagination could picture the fearful clash of forces, whose wounded would find the succor of no hospital except impact on the earth below.
Marta put her hands over her eyee for only a second, sho thought, before she withdrew them In vexation— hadn't she promised herself not to be cowardly?—to see one Brown dirigible and two Brown aeroplanes ascending at a sharp angle above a cloud of smoke to escape the blgb-ang^e guns of the Grays.
"We've got tbem all! No lips sur¬ vive to tell wbat the eye saw!" ex¬ claimed the engineer captain, his (Continoed on Pace 7)
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