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the Interest ot pleasure or ot hia ca¬ reer to linger. Thla meetinK had left his cariosity baffled. He understood how Marta's vitality demanded action, "which exerted itself in & feminine nay for a feminine cauae. Tbe cure for Buch a fad waa most clear to his mas¬ culine perception. What if all the power she had shown in ber appeal for peace could be made to serve another ambition? He knew that he was a. great man. More than once he had wondered what would happen if he were to meet a great woman. And he should not see Marta. Galland again unless war came.
CHAPTER I—At their home on ttie fron¬ tier between the Browna and Qraye Mar¬ ta Oalland and her motlier, entertaining Colonel Westerllnsr of the Grays, »ee Cap¬ tain Lanatron, ataff Intelligence offlcer ot the Browns, Injured by a fail In hla aero¬ plane.
CHAPTER n—Ten years later. Wes¬ terling, nominal vice but real chief of ataff, relnforcea South La Tir, meditate* on war, and apeculatea on the compara¬ tive ages of himself and Marta, who la visiting In tbe Oray capital
CHAPTER HI—Westerling calls on Marta. She tells him of her teaching children the follies of war and martial patriotism, begs him to prevent war while he la chief of ataff, and predicts that If he makes war agalnat the Browna he will not win.
"I see you are not very frightened by my opposition," she rejoined in a flash of amusement not wholly untem- pered by exasperation.
"We got the appropriation for an ad¬ ditional army corps this year," he ex¬ plained contentedly, hia repose com¬ pletely regained.
"Thus increasing the odds against ue. But perhaps not; tor we are deal¬ ing with the children not with re¬ cruits, as I said. We call ourselves the teachers of peace. I organized the flrst class in La Tir. I have tbe chil-
This Was the Red Flag of Anarchy to Him.
dren conio together evejry Sunday morning and I tell them about the chil¬ dren that live in other countries. I tell them tliat a child a thousand miles away is just as much a neighbor as the one acroBe the atreet. At first I feared that they would flnd It uninter¬ esting. But if you know how to talk to them they don't."
"Naturally they don't, when you talk to them," he interrupted.
Sbe was so intent that she passed over the compliment with a gesture Iil<e that of brushing away a cobweb. Her eyea were like deep, clear wells of faitli and purpose.
"1 try to make the children of other countries bo interesting that our chil¬ dren will like them too well ever to want to kill them when they grow up. We have a little peace prayer—they hiwe even come to like to recite it—a prayer and an oath. But I'll not bother you with it. Other women have taken up the idea. I have found a girl who is going to start a claes on your side in South La Tir, and 1 came here to meet some women who want to in¬ augurate the movement In your capi¬ tal."
"I'll have to see about that!" he re¬ joined, half-banteringly, half-threaten- ingly.
"There Is something else to come, even more Irritating," she said, less intently and smiling. "So please be- prepared to hold your temper."
"1 shall not beat my fist on the table defending war as you did defending peace!" he retaliated with significant enjoyment.
But she used his retort for an open¬ ing.
"Oh, I'd rather you would do that than jest! It's human. It's going to war because one is angry. You would go to war ^3 a matter of cold reason."
"If otherwise, I should lose," he re¬ plied.
"Exactly. You make it easy for me to apJJroach my point. I want to pre¬ vent you from losing!" she announced cheerfully yet very seriously.
"Yes? Proceed. I brace myself agalnet an explosion of indignation!"
"It is the duty of a teacher of peace to use all her influence with the people she knows," she went on. "So I am going tq ask you not to iet your coun¬ try ever go to war against mine while you are chief of staff."
"Mine against yoursT" he equivo¬ cated. "Why, you live almcst within gunshot of the line! Your people have as much Gray as Brown blood in their veins. Your country! My country! Isa.'! that patri9tiBm?"
"Patriotfem, but not martial patriot¬ ism," she corrected him. "My thought is to stop war for both countries as war, regardless of sides. Promise me that you will not permit it!"
"I not permit it!" He smiled with the kindly patronage of a great man who sees a charming woman flounder¬ ing In an attempt at logic. "It is for the premier to say. I merely make the machine ready. The government says the word that makes it move. I able :o stop war.! Come, come!"
"But you can—yes, you can wltl> a svord!" she declared positively.
"How?" he asked, amazed. "How?" 16 repeated blandly.
Was she teasing him? he wondered.
What new resources of confusion had ten years and a tour around the world developed in ber? Was it possible that the whole idea of the teachera of peace was an invention to make conversa¬ tion at his expense? If bo, she carried it off with a sincerity that suggested other depths yet unsounded.
"Very easily," she answered. "You can tell the premier that you cannot win. Tell him that you will break your army to pieces against the Browns' fortiflcatloius!"
He gasped. Then an inner voice prompted him that the cue was comedy.
'Excellent fooling—excellent!" he said with a laugh. "Tell the premier that I should lose when I have flve million men to their three million! What a harlequin chief of staff I should be! Excellent fooling! You al¬ most had me!"
Again be laughed, though in the fashion of one who had hardly unbent his spine, while he waa wishing for the old days when he might take tea with her one or two afternoons a week. It would be a flne tonic after his leola- tion at the apex of the pyramid sur¬ veying the deference of the lower levels. Then he saw that her eyes, shimmering with wonder, grew dull and her lips parted in a rigid, pale line as if she were hurt.
"You think I am joking?" she asked. "Why, yes!"
"But 1 am not! Xo, no, not about mich a ghastly subject as a war to¬ day!" She was leaning toward him, hands on knee and eyos burning like coals without a spark, "I"—yhe paused as she had before she broke out with the first prophecy—"I will quote part of our cliildreu's oalli: '1 vsill not bo a coward. It is a coward who strikes flrst. A brave man even after he re¬ ceives a blow tries to reason wilh liia assailant, and does not strilio Lack un¬ til he receives a tecond blow. I ehall not let a burgl.ir drive me from my house. If an enemy tries to take my land I shall appeal to his sense of jus¬ tice and reason with him, but if ho tlien persists I shall fight for my home. If I am victorious I s'.iall not try to take his land but to make tho most of my own. I shall never crces a frontier to kill my fellowmen.'"
Very impressive she made the oath. Her deliberate recital of It had the quality which justifies every word with an urgent faith.
"You see, with that teaching there can be no war," she proceeded, "and those who strike will be weak; those who defend will be strong." "Perhaps," he said. "You would not like to see thou¬ sands, hundreds of thoueands, of men killed and maimed, would you?" she demanded, and her eyes held the hor¬ ror of the sight In reality. "You can prevent it—you can!" Her heart was in the appeal.
"The old argument! No, I should not like to see that,'' he replied. "I only do my duty as a soldier to my country."
"The old answer! The more reason why you should tell the premier you can't! But there Is still another reason for telling him," she urged gently.
Now he saw her not at twenty-eeven but at seventeen, girlish, the subject of no processes of rea-son but In tho spell of an intuition, and he knew that something out of the blue in a flash was coming. "For you will not win!" sho declared. This struck firo. Square jaw and sturdy body, in maecullne energy, reso¬ lute and trained, were set indomitably against feminine vitality.
"Yes, we shall win! We shall win!" ho said without even the physical dem¬ onstration of a gesture and in a hard, even voice which was like that of the machinery of modern war itself, a voice which the aristocratic sniff, the Louis XVI curls, or any of the old gal¬ lery-display heroes would have thought utterly lacking in histrionics suitable to the occasion. He remained rigid after he had spoken, handsome, self- possessed.
There was no use of beating femi¬ nine fists against such a stune wall. The force of the male was supreme. She smiled with a strange, quivering loosening of the lips. She spread out her hands with fingers apart, as if to let something run free from them Into the air, and the flame of appeal that had been in her eyes broke into many lights that seemed to scatter into space, yet ready io return at her com¬ mand. She glanced at the clock and rose, almost abruDtly.
"I was very strenuous riding my hobby against yours, wasn't I?" she ex¬ claimed In a flutter«Qt4ffltraction that made it easy for him to descend from his own steed. "I stated a feeling. I made a guess, a threat about your winning—and all In the air. That's a woman's privilege; one men grant, isn't it?"
"We enjoy doing so," he replied, all urbanity.
"Thank you!" she said simply. "I must be at home in time for the chil¬ dren's leseon cn Sunday. My sleeper Is engaged, and if I am not to miss the train I must go Immediately."
With an undeniable shock of regret he realized that the Interview was over. Really, he had had a very good time; not only that, but— ' "Will it be ten years before we meet a^ain?" he asked.
"Perhaps, unless you change the rules about ofllcers crossing the fron¬ tier to take tea," she replied.
"Even if 1 did, the vice-chief of staff might hardly go."
"Then perhaps you must wait," she .warned him, "until the teachers of j>eace have done away with all fron¬ tiers."
"Or, If there were war, I should come!" he answered in kind. He half Wished that this might start another •rsumant and she would misa her train. But she made no reply. "And you may come to the Gray capital again. You are not through traveling!" be added.
This aroused her afresh; the flame was back In her eyes.
"Yes. I have all the memories of my Journeys to enjoy, all their leesons to study," she said. "There Is the big world, and you war.t to have had the breath_of all its climates in your lungs, the visions of all its peoples yours. Then the other thing is three acres and a cow. If you could only have the solidarity of the Japanese, their pub¬ lic spirit, with the old Chinese love of family and peace, and a cathedral near-by on a hill! Patriotism? Why, it ia In the soil of your three acres. I love to feel the warm, rich earth of our own garden in my hands! Hereafter I shall be a stay-at-home; and if my chil¬ dren win," she held out her hand in parting with the same frank, earnest grip of her greeting,, "why, you will find that tea is, as usual, at four- thirty."
He had found the women of his high official world—a narrower world than he realized—much alike. Striking cer¬ tain keys, certain chords responded. He couid probe the depths of their minds, he thouglit, in a single evening. Then he passed on, unless it waa in
CHAPTER IV.
Tlmea Have Changed.
The B3d of the Browns had started for La Tir on the same day that the 128th of the Grays had started for South La Tir. While the 128th was going to new scenes, the B3d was re¬ turning to familiar ground. It had de¬ trained In the capital of the province from which Its ranks had been recruit¬ ed. After a steep Incline, there waa a welcome bugle note and with shouts of delight the centipede's legs broke apart! Bankers', laborers', doctors', valets', butchers', manufacturers' and Judges' sons threw themselves down on the greensward of the embankment to rest. With their talk of home, of relatives whom they had met at the station, and of the changes in the town was mingled talk of the crisis.
Meanwhile, an aged man was ap¬ proaching. At times he would break Into a kind of trot that ended, after a few steps, in shortnees of breath. He was quite withered, his bright eyes twinkling out of an area of moth patches, and he wore a frayed uniform coat with a medal on the breast.
"Is this the 53d 7" he quavered to the nearest soldier.
"It certainly is!" some one answered. "Come and Join us, veteran!"
"Is Tom—Tom Fragini here?"
The answer came from a big soldier, who sprang to his feet and leaped to¬ ward the old man.
"It's grandfather, as I live!" he called out, kissing the veteran on both cheeks. "I saw sister in town, and she said you'd be at the gate as we marched by."
"Didn't wait at no gate! Marched right up to you!" said grandfather. "Marched up with my uniform and medal on! Stand oft there, Tom, so I can see you. My word! You're blg- ger'n your father, but not bigger'n I was! No, sir, not bigger'n I waa In my day before that wound sort o' bent me over. They say it's the lead In the blood. I've still got the bullet!"
(To Be Continued).
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