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SYNOPSIS OF PRECEDING CHAPTERS.
Jama Adams, European represents
five Tor American manufacturers and
graduate of West Point, is in Paris at
the outbreak of the great tear between
France and Germany. He engages in
a balloon reconnoissance for the
French and barely escapes capture, be
ing swept into northern France, where
he is wrecked in the grounds-of the
Chateau Lagunay. He is rescued by
the daughter of the Count Lagunay,
Aimee, with whom he falls in love.
The Germans advance; Adams defends
Aimee from insult at the hands of
Qriesman, Colonel of Cavalry. Adams
joins the Hussars, under Lowenberg, an
old friend, and later assists in an am
bush of the French. Word reaches him
at camp that Aimee Is again in the
hands of Oriesman. With Fleisch-
mann, a gigantic sergeant of the Em
peror's bodyguard, he impresses an
automobile and goes to her rescue. In
a terrific sword fight he kills Oriesman
and two others, and proceeds with
Aimee to the home of her cousin at
Bethel.
y ’ Chapter Vi.
for two delicious dare t remained at
Bethal with. Aimee. Thi
with Aimee. Then early In the
, jon Flelechmann brought up the
big car we eot out for camp, for ob
vious reasons taking a direct road that
did not pasa the Chateau Lagunay.
“ lilng the outskirts of the camp 1
a host of war balloons Inflated a
f
ar&K above us, and looking far to the
south we saw the French balloons, high in
fcir, observing the German movements
As we went Farther south (for the camp
-•covered an area some ten miles square)
We found that a large part of the army
had moved. It was evident that events
were approaching a crisis.
At headquarters I sent
the Emperor, Flelschmann ,
down outside In a fever of apprehension,
for he dreaded his sovereign's wrath. Ar
tor myself, certain of my ability to make
atlsfactory explanation, I waited calmly.
and when I finally drew from my pocket
the documents I had taken from Grlcs-
man’s pocket, and told, him of Grevoir.
Grlesman's supposed Interpreter, his ex
pression changed. He ran over the papers
hurriedly; letters from a prominent
French officer; brief notes of the German
scheme of invasion: data conccrninr **“
German forces; and realizing that (
man was really In league with the enemy
he forgave me, though it wns with a curt
comment upon my abrupt departure from
the camp, and a caution that I conduct
tnyself mote circumspectly In tho future.
I told him that I alone was responsible
for Flelschmsnn’s leavs without
slon—that I had really abducted
sergeant against his will. A little smile
flickered over his face at this. Then ho
sobered sgsln.
“You will rej<_
dismissing me. “There Is work for you
on tlio right wing. We will bo In action
to-morrow or the day after. You and
Flelschmann can redeem yourselves at tho
front. Until you offencT again I forgive
you both.”
berg's scolding (he
afraid for us, learning that orders were
out for ihr arrest) we discussed the plan
for the advance. I learned that the ene
my was assembled In force between
curred th
gade of
>k to r
_ armored automo-
reconnolter to the
a~ German brli
biles undertool _ , .. ....
south. The French hod sent out a similar
btigads for the same purpose, and they
met near s small village. The two forces
came togsther In a mad charge. The steel
conical prows of the great cars rammed
St high speed, crashing Into and over one
another and finishing In a tangle of
which but one German
machine had emerged In condition to re
wreckage from
machine had em
turn to camp. An assault with such -
•* ' *— — Infantry would be
such machines for general warfare.
At dark ws were ready for the advance,
moving under cover of -night to avoid the
all-seeing eyes of the alrshlpe.
A brier statement of the military situa
tion seems necessary In order that the
reader may understand the nature of our
undertaking. As has been stated, the
icKrill
The center would then attackt press the
French back upon the river, and before
they could get across strike them on both
flanks, qr drive them Into the water. To
Lowenberg fell the special task of moving
further up the Marne to Monte Pelier, the
only other point at which the French
could cross. Here the south bank fell
away* and the north bank rose In three
hills, the center of the trio being really a
small mountain, with a flat top. which
commanded the bridge below and the
banks of the Marne for some distance.
The French fortifications did not extend
this far, and the main danger iwaa In the
possibility of an opposing force reaching
the hill before we could get there.
With a detachment of ten infantry regi
ments and one of cavalry we pushed on
through the night, and before dawn
reached the Slllery forest, which extended
to the base of the Monte Pelier. Here we
encamped to await the signal to advance
and the arrival of a regiment of artillery.
Early In the afternoon we hoard firing
away to the east. The battle had opened.
Hourly It grew heavier. The shurp,
snappy bark of tho high-power field guns
blended with the roll of rifles and the
wlerd howl of the new multiplex ribbon
GatllngB, which sent out a continuous
stream of explosive bullets, bursting
* * J tearing their
the great twelve-
. banks a
Their booming reports
along
back,
fairly leaped ahead of us, his great shbre
sweeping dowtr a row of bayonets as a
scythe in ripe wheat. The french stood
in a pit dug around the brow of the hill
be thousands of them. Our revolvers were
emptied immediately, and It was then a
primitive fight—hand to hand, face to face,
shoulder to shoulder. I struck out to right
and left with but one Idea—self-preserva
tion. As in a dream I heard the deadly
clash of metal, the puffing and grunting
of straining men; the blasphemy; the
shriek of the wounded.
Farther around the hill top-our men
were falling back; and farther yet they
were clear Inside the line, driving the
French before them. A few of our men
gathered about us, and, almost surrounded
by the infuriated French, we held our
own, fighting'with the absolute despera
tion that comes into a man's heart but
once in a lifetime. We were fairly walled
In with the dead; yet as fast as they went
down others came forward. There seemed
to be no end to the cut and slash, the
spurting of red blood, the glare of angry
eyes looking Into our own with murderous
hate. Lowenberg was on my right; at his
right Flelschmann, wielding his sabre like
a flail. “Steady, boys." Tie cried, and
again, “Steady, we'll have them on the
run." But in my heart I knew that It
could not be so; that we must go down in
blood *hnd dust, victims of a misguided
-rinclple.
Then an ugly, squat Frenchman, who
“ died j
up through
tiras horribly. ...
Inch guns on the high banks came into
play. Their booming reports echoed
through the heavens, bespeaking enor
mous projectiles. The din was fearful. 1
thanked my stars that I was not within
range.
As the darkness came on we could
catch the flashes or light as the French
guns belched out their tons of Iron and
the mortars their pots of field fire and
liquid aas. It was not until afterwurd
that I learned the full extent of the devil-
ishness of man's inventive Ingenuity in
irovidlng means for the destruction of
uman life.
Then came our signal. High In the air,
to the east, appeared a shower of golden
-marks, and the mysterious echoing boom
jf an aerial projectile was borne to our
ears. The sparks paled and fell, nnd from
their midst floated three blue stars. "It
means that the French are retreating to
the river and that Monte Pelier must bo
taken,” said Lowenberg. lie gave nn
order and the word was passed on. Tho
artillery had not come—It never came, ns
a mutter of fact. Some one had blun
dered. But we waited not. Here was our
task, and we moved toward It with
alacrity.
Tho woods came to an end. In front of
s the hill loomed -up to the sky. a great,
ark. rock-strewn mass, its shadows Inky
-lack In the starlight. Lowenberg.
Flelschmann and I were In advance, and
as we emerged from the woods, the troops
pressing behind, there was a flash directly
r. front of us nnd a sharp report. A bul
let, ^whistled past my — « •
—* another
p the hill. I ....
ho tramp of thousands of feet.
Laon' ‘ — •
jFrenc
tin
Ye hhd co\
ig
top of.the hill lighted up and a hail of lead
descended. The front row of cavalry went
down, a struggling mass of men and
horses. It was no place for cavalry.
gain and again came that terrible flash.
_'ne crashing report os of thousand* of
rifles and the song of lead In our
terrible. The storm was tr * *~
ccrs and men alike threw
round and sought she
ers with which the hill was strewn,
or In depressions in the ground. The flro
became continuous. And now the French
sols ted great searchlights that revealed
our ranks. The sharo white rays dazzled
oar eyes and we could see nothing. Some
eight thousand troops hugged the ground.
* * * — unsheltered.
... ...iggied
. heap of dead, and with a
desperate thrust sent his bayonet Into
Lowenberg’s vitals. Ah, God, hew It sick
ened me. My beloved friend sank with a
gasp, a mist obscured my sight; for a
moment I weakened and my sword wa
vered. Before I could recover, the butt ol
a musket appeared In tho air immediatelj
before mo and descended upon my head
My ears rang like a foundry. The whole
world seemed suddenly to be whirling like
a Fourth of July pinwheel, with multi
tudes of sparks flying. I tottered back
ward nnd fell heavily upon the pile of
dead In the trench. As i went down I
looked at Flelschmann. He stood erect,
with feet well spread, like some great
war-god. a sabre in each hand, hewing,
smashing, cutting, his Ups compressed, his
._ , ... kept my wits, aiuf
throwing a leg over the edge of tbe bas-
* * ' In. Though It was In
tensely (
felt aroi
around the basket. It was unoccu
pied save by myself. In one corner a
small motor sparkled, going at high speed.
I had been sufficiently associated with
aeronauts to know that this controlled the
S teering fans, but that the ship would
oat without its operation. And with a
shrewd suspicion that I might want the
power later I switched off the current.
The humming stopped and I floated as In
a subterranean lake.
I was very tired. My head was aching
and I realized that I had not eaten for a
day and a night. Fumbling around I
found another switch, and, turning It, was
delighted by the Illumination or the In
terior of the basket from several tiny In-
cructiura, cneese, sardines, .canned meat
and sweet chocolate. A rack on the-«lde
held three tins of water. So, 1n reason
able comfort. I sat there in the basket and
ate my lunch. The rain had ceased; the
wind fell; far above me appeared a pale
__ I soiled
through that moonlit sea, brought peace
to my mind. I thought quietly of Aimee;
of Lowenberg, dead and gone; of brave
Flelschmann left behind In the little fort;
of all the happenings of that terrible fight.
cutting, his lipL , . —,
Jaws set with determination. He had
thrown away his coat long before; his hat
was gone; a cut on his templo let the
blood trickle down over his bronzed
cheeks. Into my heart come a great love
for this mighty fighter. Then my light
went out and the horrid noise of war
faded away Into the great silence.
It was Fleischmann's voice In my ears
that wakened me. I lay upon tho grass
in a small, opc-n shed. He was bathing
my head with cool water. Quickly recol
lection came back to mo, and stung Into
activity by my supposed danger I rose to
my feet. But tho danger was past. Save
for the dead and wounded there was not
a Frenchman In sight. Flelschmann was
ns calm as before the fight began. He
told mo that Just as ho was about to gtvo
up, his comrades came to the rescue. >Ve
were In full possession, but at what a
fearful cost! Out of ten thousand men
barely five hundred to answer tho call.
I found Lowenberg lying on a heap of
straw, his light flickering, his mind wan
dering. At Intervals he gave orders, cried
out to his wife, or sang snatches of Ger
man ballads. One of hls under officers,
who was a physician, sat near. Ho shook
hls head in answer to my inquiry^ There
“•as no hope.
Presently my friend turned hls head and
toked at me with eyes suddenly grown
Adams,” ho said, faintly, “tell
ami fell back dead.
It seemed far away, as though In the dead
post a thousand years ago.
And when I had thought until I was
weary, I sent up to God a little prayer for
courage, knowing that my life wax in Im-
■hcltcred and
Men groaned
In
id frlgl
staggered to their feet and went gallopli. n
down the hill, killing and maiming many.
At brief and regular intervals came that
sheet of flame and the hall of bullets. It
was death to etreat and death to remain.
Bo we lay until daylight.
As the dawn broke and the sun fit the
sky tho French continued tbelr destruc
tion in a more diabolical fashion. From
tho top of the hill they rolled great balls
of tough paper, which broke on the rocks
and scattered burning acids and noxious
gases. Directly above the point where wo
three lay there wns a well-defined hum
mock which deflected these hideous Imple
ments of warfare, eh "
were not i
otccted tow escaped. The
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whole side of the hill, for half a mile, was
Dvcred with dead and dying. -
During the night the firing on the east
had diminished, but with the dawn It
opened again, and the heavens were rent
with the crash and roar of mighty guns,
which continued all day without Intermis
sion. The firing above us ceased, how
ever, aud the horrible balls of acid came
no longer. Lowenberg concluded that the
French ammunition bad given out and
that an attack was again possible. A sln-
Presontly the sound of firing rose
All tho guns in tho world seemed to be
going off at once. From our elGvated po
sition we could see far out on the plain.
I picked up & glass from a dead officer and
put it to my eyes. There lay the pano
rama of war. Like moving patches of
dead grass appeared the opposing forces.
The brown krrnkl of tho Germans and the
soft gray sea-lsland-cloth of the French
gave distinction enough. There was no
smoke, for this Is the day of smokeless
powder. The center of fighting appeared
to bo well down tho bend of tho Marne,
and as I watched I could see that the
water was full of black specks. Tho
French were being forced Into the river.
A large body of the gray was hurrying up
the river bank, making for the Monte
Pelier crossing. And wo with but half a
thousand men to defend It!
The wind Increased In force. The skies
grew dark. And now, coming from tho
south, appeared a shoal of small airships,
of a now, dirigible type, with fans and
rudders. They circled above us, hardly -
quarter of a mile away, and swung dov
toward the battlefield, hooding Into the
gale In regular formation. And ~
watched a strange thin* happened. .
ships were poised directly over the vic
torious Germans. Suddenly a series of
f cullar popping reports came to my e.vs.
saw the Germans breaking, scattering,
running away from the French. T
? xouna beneath them, behind them,
ront of them, sparkled, tike tho pm
phorescent ocean. I saw the whole army
moving north, a struggling, disorganized
horde. They left behind them a brown
track, and as the sky lightened for a
moment I saw that the track was hu
man—the bodies of men prone upon the
earth. I called Flelschmann. “Look,” I
cried. "The army Is retreating. See the
sparks around them. What doc
mean?”
* THE TWO FORCES CAME TOGETHER IN A TERRIFIC CHARGE. 1
„ rear In a sunny si*
covered with vineyards and orchards,
the edge of this cliff the French had con
structed sunken fdrtlflcatlons, manned by
great cannon mounted on disappear!!*-
carriages, alternating with mortars f«_
hurling novel projectiles of which they
had a choice collection, as we afterward
gle regiment had been left behind as. a re
serve. An orderly was sent back, and
presently we heard the bugle sound, the
advance. .*,
It was a magnificent sight to sea them
come from the woods and climb the slope
They adopted the Indian style of advance,
in open order, sneaking from rock to
rock—there were no trees to give shelter.
When they reached us we rose and led
them. I kept near Flelschmann. who was
He put the glasses to his eyos. "Ah,
Klmtnel,” he groaned. “It is dynamite,
nitro-glycerine, some terrible explosive.
They are sprinkling it from above. Our
boys are being blown to pieces. We can-
nat escape.”. Before he could —
tne sky became black with the
ing storm and the rain came
learned. In all this ’ precipitous bank
comSs^awn^cftbe'riverfcrbwe/^a narrow Jealousfy We“were
Is low nnd the land stretches away for
miles to the north, eaat and west, forming
atirhe at CaUlimUn Field, «n Mdplwm
for military operations. Here, resting on
the river and protected by thegrest guns
on -the fortified cliffs. the.French had
massed their second and third armies, and
were working north with rifle nits and
earthwork*.expecting- to overwhelm tbe
(To be continued.)
AND THEY NEVER KNEW.
A little Story of Real life.
Tlie groat financier burled hls face
In hls hands ns a great flood of bitter
ness crowded bis soul. lie bad locked
the door of hls private office and de
nied himself to every one all morning,
Just as .years before be lmil shut tho
world and Its people from bis heart.
When but a child ho had been
branded us a "bad boy,” and other
children were forbidden to play with
him. He had grown up asking him
self why no one loved bira. That he
was bad he had learned ns n parrot
would, hut the real meaning wns too
vague to bo understood by bis childish
mind.
At school no one bad understood
him. Oiu-e, when ho was disobedient,
in lmd been conceived to punish
favorite teacher. He was so
grieved that he ran away for fear ho
might again cause pain or punishment
to the ono ho loved. No one caine nnd
asked why he did so—ho was expelled.
That to starve, to die, was better
than to Hvo without sympathy, had
been hls early conclusion, for truly
was he being eaten up with a gnawing
hunger for sympathy and companion
ship.
Once, when he was a young business
mpn, successful, Indeed, b'ecahso he
gave hls life—hls wbolo energy—to
work, some ono started a report that
he was dishonest In a deni.
He cried out ngnlnst tbe injustice
of a world which would not see. He
wns tried, aud the Judge, who, no
doubt, meant to be honest, decided
against him, because circumstances
were not in hls favor.
Not one enmo to say, “I know, l be
lieve you are honest” No wonder,
llko a haunted thing which would fly
to shelter from tho eyes of the world,
ho lived alone In dlls grief of being
misunderstood.
Years after, when It was found that
ho was honest, that he had been falsely
accused, np one cutne to rejoice with
him—nnd ho cared hut little, hut real
ized anew bow little the world cared
to he Just.
Hls eyes were kind and seemed to
appeal to you to respond, but hls
mouth Was set and firm, and lines,
which once expressed sweetness, bad
now deepened Into futrows of care and
coldness.
As he sat there dreaming hls life
over, ho wondered who .was ever He-
uled sympathy as lie.
A nip came on tho door, and he ad
mitted hls bookkeeper, a woman. She
looked frightened, nnd there were
trnces of tears In her eyes.
He asked her to )>o seated. Anyone
In trouble was welcome, particularly
this woman, whom ho had more than
admired.
“I have come,” she said, "to ask
what you are going to do with mo.
There is money missing from the safe.
There Is no way to provo ray Inno
cence, for I believe I alone have the
combination, and I am too poor to re
turn tho money. Of course, you can
not know or understand that I would
not steal”—and tho woman wept bit
terly.
‘Why do you say I cannot under
stand?” be asked.
"I do not know," she said. “I only
felt you would not—no one ever does,
We are born In one sphere and forced
to live In another, where It Is nil mis
trust and bitterness.”
I do know; I do understand," be
replied.
Tbe woman looked at him through
her tears and saw two great eyes of
kindness, yet she dared not believe.
“You really do not think I took the
money?” she asked.
'And If I didn’t would you care,
other than for the disgrace?”
'Yes, oh yes! I should want yon
to think me honest, because I know
how you bate dishonesty.”
“Then I do believe In yonr Innocence.
There are none who can so sympa
thise as those who have suffered, aud
I only hope you may never suffer as
I have.”
“But you, sir, aro rich,” she said.
“Yes, la money, Imt as for frieuds—
I have none.”
How she wished to tell him bow she
admired and loved him: But abe was
a woman, and only a bookkeeper, so
she thanked him for his trust in her,
but forgot to offer him the word of
sympathy, and lie, thinking no one
could love bint,mistook her modesty
for indifference.
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