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WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 9. YOUNG CITY SALESMAN TAKES EMPLOYER’S MONEY AND LEAVES WIFE AND CHILD AID GOES HAY FRI AUGUSTA ITH ANOTHER’S WIFE Jno. C. Cherry, Salesman For Mr. Fred Gehrken, Sends Employer Note Admitting He Had Taken Several Hundred Dollars YOUNG MARRIED WOMAN DISAPPEARS AND BELIEVED THEY ARE TOGETHER Cherry Was Highly Regarded by His Employer---Came Here Several Years Ago From Na shville, Ga. John C. Cherry, city salesman for Mr. Fred Gehrken at Fourth and Greene streets, has disappeared with several hundred dollars of his employer’s mon ey. Simultaneous with Cherry’s dis appearance comes the report of the dis appearance of a young married woman 17 years of age with whom it is under stood that he was infatuated. Cherry has a wife and one child and lives at 506 Thi**d street. His wif6 was Miss Viola Parish, of Nashville, Ga On Monday morning day-before-yes terday, Cherry went out collecting bills due to Mr. Gehrken and it was not till the noon hour that he was missed. When he failed to report at the usual time, Mr. Gehrken telephoned to. his home. There was no response. It was leafned afterwards that Mrs. Cherry and her little two-year-old daughter away in the country visiting her family. They left Augusta two days before, on Sat urday. Mr. Gehrken. thinking that his sales man, Cherry, had met with some acci dent, being otherwise unable to explain his continued absence and silence all day Monday, began to make enquiries. COUNTED 10,000 GEUMANDEAD AFTER ONE PRUSSIA BATTLE Losses in First Six Weeks of War Exceed All Previous Casualties---At Saldau, the Losses on Both Sides Between Sixty Thousand and Seventy Thousand London, 4:55 a. m—The correspond ent of the Times at Petrograd says: "The extent of the losses during the first six weeks of the war places all previous casualties far in the back ground. Not less than 10,000 dead Germans were counted in the trenches after one engagement In eastern Prus sia. “On the fateful Sept 1, when two Russian corps came to death grips four German corps north of Soldau, the losses of both sides totalled be tween 60,000 and 70,000, the majority being Germans. Russian Victories Continue *• Thousands of Roumanians in Frantic Excitement in Favor Russia and France. Austrians Falling Back London, 12:10 p. m.—A telegram received here from Bucharest, Rumania, says the Russian victories in Ga licia over the forces of the dual monarchy have arous ed the Rumanians to almost fanatic excitement. Thou sands of Rumanians demon strated yesterday in the . street of Bucharest in fa vor of Russia and France. CERINSIRS OVER FRENCH, BRITISH TROOPS Berlin, via. London, 8 a. m.—Ser geant Major Werner of the aviation corps returned today from the front after making repeated scouting flignts i ver the French and British troops. He described as Ms most thrilling flight one in which he battled with two aeroplanes of the enemy, one a British biplane and the other a French monoplane. Both were much faster than hts machine, which was old and battered. Expected Bomba. "My two enemies flew beside and about me for a long time," he sain. • I expected momentarily that they would throw bomb* but apparentlv they had none Both of them fired revolvers repeatedly In my direction and replied with my revolver but none of the shots were effective. Af ter an anxious quarter of an hour I drew them toward the German lines and they were compelled to with draw." All eyes here are turned eastward to the hard-pressed Austrian army In Galicia where the importance of ad Yesterday Mr. Gehrken received a let ter from Cherry in Macon, saying that he had certain funds (several hundred dollars) of Mr. Gehrken’s money in his possession, which he hoped to be able to repay in the course of the next two or three years. So far as is known he did not mention the name of the woman said to be with him in his letter to Mr. Gehrken. , Friends of the young woman admit that she has left the city and that they are anixous to know of her whereabouts, but they do not admit that she has gone away with Cherry. They say that she knows Cherry, however. The police and the county authorities claim that they have not been requested to help find either Cherry or the young woman. They stated that the knowi edge the reporters gave them of the af fair was the first they had heard. Cherry came here four years ago from Nashville. Ga., and was a valued em ploye of Mr. Gehrken. “1 was never so> surprised in a man in my life,” said Mr. Gehrken Wednesday, in discussing the matter. “The results of the fair at Nijzti Novgorod provide conclusive evidence of the comparatively small effect the war h d upon internal trade. Business was suspended for only two or three days at the beginning of mobilization, but afterwards it was normal. There was a brisk demand for goods from central Asia, Persia, the Caucasus and the Volgar region. A majority of firms are ready to extend credit to regular customers. The state bank, too by active discounting supports the fair. Furs alone suffered through the inter ruption of foriegn trade.” ministering a check to the Russian In vading army appears quite as great, trim a German point of view, as the vigorous pursuit of the French cam paign. Building Railways. "The Cologne Gazette’s jeorrespon dents report from Montmedy in the French department of the Meuse, 22 miles southeast of Sedan, that German trains are already running into France as far as that place. The German engineers are building a railway line around the city and French prisoners are being employed in clearing the railway tunnels. The death of two military aviators, Lieut. Count Uekull and Volunteer Raymond Arthur Breton, is announced. Dispatches to the Cologne Gazette from Bucharest report that there is a strong sentiment in favor of Russia throughout Roumania. PRiDYWAY IN ILLINOIS Chicago, Ills.—lllinois voters today choose candidates for the fall election for United States senator, congressmen, state treasurer, superintendent of public Instruction, clerk of the supreme court and various county and municipal of ficers. In the democratic party there are five candidates for senator, Rogers C. Sul livan, Lawrence B. Stringer, congress man at large, Harry Woods, secretary of state. Barratt O'Hara, lieutenant-gover nor and James Trayner. On the republican ballot Lawrence Sherman, United States senator, has three opponents, William E. Mason, for mer United States senator. Frank H. Childs and Miner Stein. ' Much attention was directed to the 18th congressional district whtVe Joseph O. Cannon is opposed by Elmer B. Cooley, also of Danville, for the repub lican nomination for congress, 4 INSTiir KILLED IN AUTO Ocean City, N. J.— Dr. Mathew S. Borden, son of the late millionaire cotton mill owner of Fall River, Mans., J Harvey Wood and Mrs. Wood of New York, and Leo Oulfreund, Doctor Borden's chauffeur, were Instantly killed early today at the Palmero Sta tion of the Reading Railroad In a col lision between Dr, Borden’s automo bile and a moving locomotive. A fifth passenger, a man named Ryan, was bodly Injured. The party left New York yesterday for Cape May to attend a convention. Their car was going 35 or 40 miles an hour, it Is estimated, when it clashed into the locomotive. Mr. Borden was at the wheel. Mr. and Mrs. Wood clasped in each others arms were hurled thirty feet to the station platform and killed so quickly that their embrace was not broken. Dr. Borden was mutilated beyond recognition. THE AUGUSTA HERALD, AUGUSTA, GA. Speaking ... IKE ... Public Mind An Abused Wife Needing Help. To the Herald: Will some good person advise me what I shall do? I am at my wits end. I put In 15 years of torture, liv ing- with a husband who drank, stay ing away from home weeks at a time and would leave me and our chail dren to wait and suffer until his re turn. Then we would be in agony, as he was brutal. The first five years of our married life was happy. Then bad company, drink and women attracted my husband and X was forced after years of such a life to get a divorce. I endured it for years, hoping and pray ing for a change in the man. Now my health is failing very fast and hard work is making my days short. Though X am willing to keep on, my very soul is sick at times and I need some good loving advice. ONE WHO NEEDS ADVICE. A Bug Exterminator Wanted. To the Herald: Will someone please tell me what I can do to rid the house of bedbugs and the eggs? I have tried a number of things without any success as yet. Maybe someone knows of a good ex terminator. WORRIED. How He Whipped John Barleycorn. To the Herald: I would like to give a word of good cheer to somebody, also my cure for getting “soused” at every opportunity. Mr. Coffin Varnish and I formed a partnership back in 1871. I drank with the boys when we got out to gether, and eventually got into the habit of taking one by myself if I could find no one to drink with me. It was the same old story. I got worse and then worse. Finally the railroad, (I was working for the Burlington out of Kansas City) issued the ultimatum. “Cut out the booze or we will let you out.” That order had no effect on me. I would lay off “sick" and tank up for a week at a time. Finally they handed me my reslga tion and I went to Kansas City to work. There was nothing to restrain me but the lack of funds. I am a good mechanic, and earned good big money and would hold up on the booze for a spell, and then I would get “lit up” for as long as three weeks at a time, never going near my work. My fore man, knowing my weakness, tried to help me by holding my situation. It did no good. On the morning of Oct. 18, 1910, at 6 a. m„ I started the other way. I said to myself I will quit, and I meant it. I did not hide or sidestep. In fact, I would go into the saloon and wait for the street car. Now, after four years of abstinence following forty-one years of boozing, I believe I have won out fair and square in the fight with Coffin Var nish. And it is so simple too. I did it. You can do it it. Take as your motto. “Nothing Doing,” put it up against any and all temptations, and mean it, and you win. I know it will be a little hard to say it when you are urged to take Just one with the boys. Drinking is like getting olives out of a bottle—after you have got the first one the rest are very easy. There fore beware of the first one. Now. you do not have to go to Kansas or any other place to get rid of the habit. Buck up against It when ever and wherever it comes across your path. Stay on the firing line, with a full determination to win, and you will be surprised to find how ea it is to say “No, nothing doing.” And each time yor win you get prouder of yourself, and the tempta tions keep growing less all the time. It will not be all smooth sailing, but the farther you go the better you wilt like it. And the boys will help you along when they find that you mean business. You need have no fear of booze if your mind is fully imade up to fight for your manhood and your family. “Old John" will tell you that you are feeling badly, and that Just one little drink will fix you all right. (And it will “fix” you all right). Pass him up absolutely, let “hiothlng Doing" be your watchword, and you will win. I knoi. it for I have been all over the ground. Stick to the firing line good red blood spunk, no compromise and no quarter, stiekand hang—that will spell victory with a large V. I know It. Don't try to be a good fellow with the bunch. Get your mind off of the booze and get It on your home and he a man. Show the patient, forbearing wife that she has not hoped in vain. You can if you Just will. "Old John” Is not such a terrible fighter as some would have you be lieve. I know you can wallop him to a frai ile if you will put. up a hold front and he willing to go the limit. Be the aggressor at all times. Don't ever think of laying down —give no quar ter and ask none, and you will come through with colors flying. J know It! Ho cheer up and go to It with the best of wishes of ODD DICK. THE END OF THE WORLD. To The Herald: I see that they are predicting the End of the World again. I think It was In Sunday’s paper. Although I was not surprised—l knew there would he people to grasp this present war situation as a fulfillment of the prophesy yet I was disappointed. I read It with a feeling of regret, a feeling that I cannot express, a sort of depression and sadness.. It seemed such a pity to me. that our newspapers should print It, In all gravity, and without comment. Have we not yet learned, after all the ages of hitter disillusionment, af ter all the disappointments, and the flaseas, that the Millenium is a dream that will not come true? How many times, since the beginning of the Christian Era, has the End of the World been predicted? How many times have Christians given away all that they had and gone up onto the mountains to await the coming of the Son of Man? Oh, the irony of it! Why, In this enlightened age, should we countenance another such proph esy? Why ehould we stand by again and consent to he humiliated; wait for something that does not happen; hold a lamp for one who does not come. The end of the world will not be this year, nor at any time before mankind has run his course. And that will not be before the Sun Is grown cold. Alas, we know that we must fight It out to the grave, and that after us our children must take up our cause, and that always the old world will roll on and on. And there shall he Wars and the Rumors of Wars. But the end is not yet. FIRST WOUNDED AMERICAN WOMAN New York.—The first wounded Am erican woman to reach New York from Europe since the beginning of the war arrived Tuesday on the steamer Sax onia from Liverpool. She is Mrs. C. J. Devlin of Kansas City and her wound Is a bayonet thrust in the leg, Inflicted by a Dutch soldfbr in the Hook of Holland. Her three daughters, Inez, Ruth and Ethel, accompanied her. The Saxonia brought 779 passengers, nearly all Americans. Many of them suffered unusual hardships In Europe. Bayonet in Leg. Mrs. Devlin and her daughters left Munich some time after war had been declared, and made their way to the Hook of Holland. They were hurried aboard a channel steamer by Dutch soldiers, some of whom were much ex cited. One of the soldiers, through in advertence Mrs. Devlin believed, thrust his bayonet into her leg. She still limps from the wound. Sunk By Mine. Miss Sophie C. Hart, a teacher of Wellesley, Mass., and Miss Mary Sweeney, a teacher at the University of Minnesota, passengers, were ferried across the Gulf of Bothnia on their way to Stockholm. The steamer was preceded by a pilot boat as a guard against mines. Several hours out of Rouma they heard an explosion and, rushing on deck, saw the disappearing hull of the pilot boat. It had found a mine. MANNING INS GOVERNORSHIP OF SI Columbia, S. C.—Additional returns of tha balloting yesterday in the sec ond state-wide democratic primary from scattered precincts in practically every county increased early today the majorities by which Richard I Manning will be nominated governor, Andrew J. Bethea as lieutenant gov ernor and E’rank Shealy as railroad commissioner. With Mannjng, Bethea and Shealy having majorities ranging respectively from 30,000 to 38,000 the result shown early today cannot be changed. Wyatt Aiken’s nomination as con gressman from the Third District was insured by an increased majority. Columbia, S. C.—Richard I. Man ning, of Sumter, for governor, A. .1. Bethea, of Columbia, for lieutenant governor, and Frank W. Shealy, of Lexington, for railroad commissioner, were nominated in the South Carolina democratic primary yesterday by ma jorities approximating 25,000 apiece. Wyatt Aiken, for re-nomination to the federal house of representatives from the Third District, has won over F. H. Dominick by a substantial ma- Jortw, perhaps reaching 4,000. With nearly 100,000 votes reported, the count stands: Manning. 61,875; John G. Richards, 36,467; for lieuten ant governor, Bethea, 69,670; H. Frank Kelly, 36,782; railroad commis sioner, Shealy, 64,943; C. B. Fortner. 32,112; for congress, Aiken, 10,262; Dominick, 7,133. Fair Sized Vote. The election turned out a fair vote, estimates of Its size ranging from 105,000 to 110,000, as against a total of 132 In the first primary of two weeks ago. The three winners were In each In stance recognized as opponents of Gov. Cole L. Blease, who two weeks ago was defeated for the United States senate by EX. D. Smith, the in cumbent. Representative Aiken was victorious over E’. H. Dominick, now assistant attorney general, who was formerly a law partner of Governor Blease and recognized as a strong supporter of the administration. In November. Mr. Manning, who will be elected governor In November, will take of fice in January, In succession to Gov ernor Blease. Mr. Manning Is a plan ter and banker and has been active In politics before, having served In the state house of representatives and in the state senate and having before made the canvass for governor though unsuccessfully. He has carried forty of the forty four counties, according to available figures. R’Y HEADS TO PRESIDENT. WMhlngton, D. C. These railroad executives, It was announcsd today, will confer with President Wilson tomorrow on the financial situation of the roads growing 'rut of the European war: Chairman Trumbull, of the Chesapeake and Ohio; Presidents Iter, of the Penn sylvania, Willard of the Baltimore and Ohio, Harrison of the Houthrin, Itlple of the Santa Ke and Vice-President Holden of the Burlington. Don’t pay rent; own your home---SSOO cash and sLe money you pay for rent wL I buy a nice home in good sec tion of city. Phone 76 W to night TO Ld5T SHOT In this story Mr. Palmer, the noted war oorreapondent. has palnt sd war as he has seen It on many battlefields, and between many na tions. His Intimate knowledge of armlee and armamenta haa enabled him to produce a graphic picture of the greatest of all wars, and his knowledge of oondltlons has led him to prophesy an end of armed conflicts. No man la better quail fled to write the story of the Anal world war than Mr. Palmer, and he haa handled hla subject with a master hand. « mi i» (Continued from Yesterday.) "This war was made for peace—the only kind of peace that there can be,” he said. “My ambition. If any glory comes to me out of this war. is to have later generations say: 'He brought peace 1’ ” Though the premier, could he have heard this, might have smiled, even grinned, he would have understood Westerling’s unconsciousness of Incon sistency. The chief of BtafT had set himself a task In victory which had no military connection. Without know ing why, ha wanted to win ascendancy over her mind. "The man of action!” exclaimed Marta, her eyes opening very wide, as they would to let In the light when sho heard something new that pleased her or gave food for thought. "The man of action, who thinks of an ideal as a thing not of words but as the end of action I” “Exactly t” said Westerllng, sen sible of another of her gifts. She could get the essence of a thing In a few words. "When wo have won and sot another frontier, the power of our nation will be such In the world that the Browns can never afford to attack us," he went on. "Indeed, no two of the big nations of Europe can afford to make war without our consent. We shaJl be the arbiters of International dissensions. We shall command peace —yes, the peace of force, of fact! If It could be won In any other way I should not be here on this veranda In command of an army of Invasion. That was my idea—for that I planned.” He was making up for having over shot himself In his confession that he had brought on the war as a (Inal step for his ambition. ‘‘You mean that you can gain peace by propaganda and education only when human nature has so changed that we can have law and order and houses are safe from burglary and pedestriane from pickpockets without policemen? Is that It?” she asked. “Yes, yes! You have It! You have found the wheat In the chaff.” “Perhaps because I have been see ing something of human nature—the human nature of both the Browns and tha Grays at war. I have seen the Browns throwing hand grenades and the Grays In wanton disorder In our dining-room directly they were out of touch with their ofHoers!” she said ■a/lly, as one who hutes to accept dis illusionment but must In the face of logic. Westerllng made no reply except to nod, for a movement on her part pre occupied him. Hhe leaned forward, as she had when she had told him he would become obief of staff, her hands clasped over her knee, her eyes burn ing with a question. It was the atti tude of the prophecy. But with the prophecy she had been a little mys tical; the Are in her eyes had precipi tated an Idea. Now It forged another question. "And you think that you will vrfn ?~ ■he ashed. “You think that you will wtn?" she repeated with the slow em phasis which demands a careful an swer. The deliberateness of his reply was In keeping with her mood. He was de tached; he was a referee. "Yes, I know that we shall. Num bers make It so, though there be no choice of nkill between the two sides.” His lone had the confidence of the flow of a mighty river In It* destlno tion on its way to the sea There was nothing In it of prayer, of hope, of des peratlon. as there hail been in Lan strrm's "We shall win!” spoken to her In the arbor at their last Interview. Hhe drew forward slightly in her chair. Her eyes seemed much larger and nearer to him. They were sweeping him up and down as If she were seeing the slim figure of Lanstron In con trant to Westerilng's sturdiness; as If she were measuring the might of the flve millions behind him and the three millions behind Lanstron. Hhe let go a half-whispered "Yes!” which seemed to reflect the conclusion gained from the power of his presence. “Then my mother's and my own In terest* are with you—the Interest* of peace are with you!” she declared. She did not appear to see the sud den, uncontrolled gleam of victory In his eyes. By this time It had become a habit for Westerllng to wait silently for her to come out of her abstrac tions To disturb one might make It unproductive. "Then If I want to help the cause of peace 1 should help the Grays!'' The exclamation was more to her self tbau to him He was silent. This girl in a veranda chair desiring to aid htm and his flve million bayonets and four thousand guns! Quixote and the windmills—but it was amazing; It was fine! The golden glow of the sunset was runniug in his veins in a paean of personal triumph. The profile turned ever so little. Now It was looking at the point where Dellarme had lain dying. Westerllng noted the smile playing on the lips. It had the quality of a smile over a task com pleted—Dellarme’s smile. She start ed; she was trembling all over in the resistance of some impulse— «ome Im pulse that gradually gained hoadway and at last broke Its bonds. "For T can help—l can help!” she cried out, turning to him In wild In decision which seemed to plead for guidance. "It's so terrible—yet if it. would hasten peace—l I know much of the Browns' plan of defense! I know where they are strong In the first line and -and one place where they are weak there—and a place where they are weak In the main line!” "You do!" Westerllng exploded. The plans of the enemy! The plans that neither Bouchard's saturnine cunning, nor bribeß, nor spies could ascertain! It was like the bugle-call to the hunter. But he controlled himself. “Yes, yes!” He was thoughtful and guarded. “Do you think it 1« right to tell?” Marta gasped half Inarticulately. “Right? Yes. to hasten the inevit able—to save lives!” declared Weßter- Ung with deliberate assurance. “I —I want to see an end of the kill ing! I —” Hhe sprang to her feet as If about to break away tumultuously, but paused, swaying unsteadily, and passed her hand across her eyes. "We intend a general attack on tho first lino of defense tonight!” ho ex claimed. his supreme thought leaping Into words. "And you would want, the Informa tion about the first, line to-night Is—ls it is to be of service?" "Yes, to-night!” Marfa brought her hands togethor in a tight clasp. Iter gaze fluttered for a minute over the testable. When she looked up her eyes wero calm. "It Is a big thing. Isn't It?” she eald. "A thing not to be done In an Impulse. ? 0 “1 Want to See an End of the Killing." I try never to do big things in an Im pulse. When I see that i am In rlan- Knr of It I always say; 'Go by your self and think for half an hour!’ 80 I mast now. In a little while I will let you know my decision." Without further formality she start ed across tbe lawn to the terrace steps. Westerllng watched her sharp ly, passing along the path of the sec ond terrace, pacing slowly, head bent, until she was mit of sight. Then ha stood for a time getting a grip on his own emotions before he went Into the house. CHAPTER XV. In Feller's Place. What, am I? What have I done? What am I about to do? shot a* forked shadows over the hot lava-flow of Mar ta's Impulse The vitality that Wester llng had felt by suggestion from a still profile rejoiced In a quickening of pace directly she was out of sight of the veranda. All the thinking she bad done that afternoon had been in pic ture*; some saying, some cry, eome, groan, or some smile went with every picture. The sitting-room of the tower was empty to other eyes but not to hers. The lantern was In the corner at hand.* After her hastening steps bad carried her along the tunnel to tbe telephone, she set dowu tbe lantern and pressed tha spring that opened the panel door. Another moment and she would be em barked on her great adventure In tha nullity of action. That little ear-piece became a specter of conscience. She drew back convulsively and her hands, flow to her face; she was a rocking shadow in the thin, reddieh light of the lantern. Conscious mind had torn off the mask from subconscious mind, reveal ing the true nature of the change that war had wrought In her. She who had resented Feller’s part —what a part she had been playing! Every word, every shade of expression, every tell ing pause of abstraction after Weeter ling confessed that he had made war for his own ends had been subtly prompted by a purpose whose actuality terrified her. Her hypocrisy, she realized, was as black as the wall of darkness beyond the lantern's gleam. Then this demor alization passed, as a nightmare passes, with Westerling’s boast agate In her ears. When war’s principles, enacted by men, were based on sinister trickery called strategy and tactics, should not women, using such weapons as they had, aleo fight for their homes? Mar ta's hands swept down from her eyes;, she was on fire with resolution. Forty miles away a bell In Lan stron's bedroom and at his desk rang simultaneously. At the time he and Bartow were seated facing onr.h other across a map on the table of the room where they worked together. No per suasion of tho young vice-chief, no edict of the doctors, could make the old chief take exorcise or shorten hla hours. "I know. I know myself!” he said. "I know my duty. And you are learar lng, my boy, learning!” Every day the flabby cheek* grew pastier and t he pouches under the eye brows heavier. But there was no dimming of the eagle flashes of the eyes, no weakening of the will. Last night Lanstron had turned as white as chalk when Bartow staggered on rising from tho table, the veins on hie temples knotted blue whip-cords. Yet after a few hours' sleep he reappeared with firm step, fresh for the fray. The paraphernalia around these two was the same as that, around Wester llng. Only the atmosphere of the staff was different. Each man was perform ing the i>art. set for him. No man knew much of any other man’s part. Partow alone knew all, and Lanstron was try ing to gra*p all and praying that Par tow’s old body should etill feed hla mind with energy. Lanstron was thin ner and paler, a new and glittering In tensity In his eyes. When word of Feller’s defection came, Lanstron realized for the first time by Bartow’s manner that the old chief of staff, with all his deprecation of the telephone scheme as chimerical, had grounded a hope on 1L "There was the chance that we might know —so vital to the defense— what they were going to do before and not after the attack,” he said. Yet the story of how Feller yielded to the temptation of the automatic had made the nostrils of the old war-horsa quiver with a dramatic breath, and In stead of the command of a battery of guns, which Lanstron had promised, the chief made it a battalion. He had drawn down his brows when he heard that Marta had asked that the wtm be left Intact; he had shot a shrewd, questioning glance at and then beat a tattoo on the table and half grinned aa be grumbled nnder hte breath: "She Is afraid of being lonesome I Mb harm done I “ A week had passed since tbe Grays had taken the Galland house, and still no word from Marta. The ring of thei hell brought to his feet wltK a startled, boyish bound. "Very springy, that tendon od Achilles!” muttered Partow. "And, my boy, take care, take caret” ha called suddenly In his sonorous voteet as vast and billowy as hla body. It was Marta’s voice and yet not Marta’s, this voice that beat la nerw> ous waves over the wire, "Larin y — Yes, 1, Lenny I Yon were right. Westerllng planned to make war deliberately to satisfy his ambition, lie told me so. The first general at tack on the first line of defense Is to night. Westerllng says sol” She had to pause for breath. "And, Lenny, > want to know some position of the Browns which Is weak— not actually weak, maybe, but some position where the Grays expect terrible resistance and will not find It — where yon will let them In!" "In the name of — Martel Marts. what—” ”1 am going to fight for the Browns —for ipy homel” In the sheer satisfaction of explain ing herself to herself, of voicing her sentiments, she sent the pictures which had wrought the change moving across the screen before Lanstron’s amazed vision. There was no room for Inter ruption on bis part, no question or need of one. The wire seemed to quiver with tbe militant tension of her spirit. It was Marta aflame who was talking at the other end; not aflame for him, but with a purpose that re vealed all the latent strength of her personality and daring. "I shall have to ask Partow. ItY n pre'ty big thing ” (To be xontlnued Tomorrow Jj FIVE