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Continued from Page < ready to do our duty. There may be no war. Don't iet me liear anotlier peep trom you!"
Now all closed their eyes. In front of then* was vast silence which .seemed to stretch from end to end of the frontier, while to the rear was the rumble of switching railway trains and the rumble of provision trains and artillery on the roads, and In the dis¬ tance on the plain the headlight of a locomotive cut a swath In fhe black nighL But the breathing of most of the men was not that of slumber, though Eugene and Pilzer slept soundly. Ilouns passed. Occasional restless movements told of efforts to force sleep by changing position.
"It's the waiting that's sickening!" exploded the manu/acturer's son un¬ der his breath, desperately.
"So I say. I'd like to be at it and done with the suspense!" said the doctor's son.
"They say if you are shot through the head you don't know what killed you it'a 60 quick. Think of that!" 'xclaimed Peterkin, huddling cloeer to Hugo qpid shivering.
"Yes, very merciful," Hugo whis¬ pered, patting Peterkln's aim.
"bh-h-h! Siieuce, I tell you I' i-um- manded Fracasse croasly. Ho was falling into a half doze at last.
In marching order, with cartridge- boxes full, on Saturday night, the 53d of the Browns marChed out of bar¬ racks to the main pass road. One company after another left the road at a given point, bound for the position mapped in its instructione. Deilarme's, however, went on until it was oppo¬ site the Galland house.
"We are depending on you," the colonel said to Dellarme, giving his hand a grip. "You are not to draw off till you get the flag."
"No, sir," Dellarme replied.
"Mind the signal to the batteries— keep the men screened—warn them not to iet their first baptism of shell fire break their nerves!" the colonel added in a flnal repetition of instruc¬ tions already indelibly Impreseed 6li the captain's mind.
Moving cautiously through a cut, Deilarme's company came, about mid¬ night, to a halt among the stubble of a wlieat-fieid behind a knoll. After he had bidden the men to break ranks, he crept up the incline.
"Yes, it's there!" he whispered when he returned. "On the crest of the knoll a cord is stretched from stake
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"It Looks Like Business," Declared the Old Se.-geant.
to stake," he said, explaining the rea¬ son for what was to be done, ae was his custom. "The engineers placed it there after dusk and the frontier was closed, so that you would know just where to use your spades in the dark. Quietly as possible! No talking!" he kept cautioning as the men turned the soft earth, "and not higher than thh cord, and lay tho etubble side of the sods on ' the reverse so as to cover the fresh earth ou the sky-line."
When the work was done all re¬ turned behind tbe knoll except, the sentries posted at Intervals on the crest to watch. With the aid of a small electric flash, screened by his bands, Dellarme again examined a sec¬ tion of the staff map that outlined the contour of the knoll in relation to the other positions. After this he wrote In^ifl_diar7 the' simple facts of the
day's events, condluoin^ with a rentl- ment of gratitude for the honor Zaown bis com^Jyiy and a prayer that lie might keep a clear head and do Liis duly if war came on tbe me-rpw.
"Now, every one get all the 8le*>p lie can!" he advised the men.
Stransky slept with his head on hiti arm, soundly; the otherselept no bet¬ ter than the men of the 128th. The night passed without any alarm ex¬ cept that of their own thoughtf, and they welcomed dawn as a relief from suspense. There was no hot coffee this morning, and they washed down their rations with water from their canteens. The old Be/-geant was lying beside Captain Della*-me on the crest, the sunrise In their faces. As the mist cleared from the plain it revealed the white dots of the frontier posts In the meadow and behind them many gray figures in skirmish order, scarcely vis¬ ible except through the glasses.
"It looks like business!" declared the old sergeant.
"Yes, it begins the minute they croes the line!" said Dellarme.
His glance sweeping to the rear to 3can the landscape under the light oJ day, he recognf^od, with a sense of pride and awe, ths tactical importance of his company's position in relation to that of the Importance of the other companies. Easily he made out the regimental line by streaks of con¬ cealed trenches and groups of brown uniforms; and here and there were the oblong, cloth stretches of waiting hospital littere. On the rever.se slope of another knoll was the farmhouse, marked X on his map as the rngimen- tal headquarters, where he was to watch for the signal to fall bai k from nis flrst stapd In delaying the <'nomy'8 advance. Directly to the rear was the cut through which the company had come from the main pass road, and be¬ yond that the Galland house, which was to be the second stand.
Now Dellarme disposed his men In line back of the ridge of fresh earth that they had dug in the night, ready to rush to their places when he ble\\ the whistle that hung from his neck, but he did not allow them a glimpse jver the crest.
"I know that you are curious, but powerful glasses are watching for you to show yourselves; and if a battery tamed loose on us you'd understand." he explained.
Thus the hours wore on, and the church clock etruck nine and ten.
"Never a movement down there!" called the sergeant from the crest to Dellarme. "Maybe this is just their flnal bluff before they come to terms about I'odlapoo"—that stretch of Af¬ rican jungle that seemed very far away to them all.
"Let us hope so!" said Dellarmij seriously.
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Choosing to go to town by the castle road rather than down the ter¬ race to the main pass road. Marta, starting for the regular Sunday ser¬ vice of her school, as she emerged from the grounds, saw Feller, garden- shears in hand, a figure of stone watching tl\e approach of Bome field batteries. The question of allowing him to undertake his part as a spy had drifted into the background of her mind under the distressing and ever- present pressure of the crisis. He wae to remain until there was war. She waa almost past him before he real¬ ized her presence, which he acknowl¬
edged by a startled movemeni auu ; Step forward as be took od his bat She paused. His eyes were giowin:., like coal« under a blower as he 1noke<! at her and again at the batterks seeming to include her with the gu».; in the spell of his fervid abstraction.
"Frontier closed last ni^ht to pve- Tcnt intelligence about our prepara¬ tions leaking out—Lanny's plan ail alive—the guns coming." he said, hi"^ shoulders stiftening, hie chin drawing in, his features resolute and beaminr with the ardor of youth in actirn— "troops moving here and there to their places—engineers preparing the de¬ fenses—automatics at critical points with the infantry—field-wires laid— fleld-teiephonos set up—the wlreles? spitting—the caissons full—planes and dirigibles ready—seaixh-iights In po¬ sition—"
There the torrent of his broken sen¬ tences was checked. A shadow passed In front of him. He came out of his trance of imageries of actlvtti«?8, so vividly clear to his military mind, to realize that Marta wa'^ abruptly leav¬ ing.
"Miss Galland!" he called urgently. *^ring may commence at any min¬ ute. You muet not go into town!"
"But I must!" she declared, speak¬ ing over her shoulder while she passed. It was clear that no warning would prevail against her determined mood.
"Then I shall go with you!" he said, starting toward her with a.J,lght step.
"It is not necessary, thank you!" sbe answered, more coldly than she had ever epoken to. him. This had a (To Be ContiDuedi
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