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Confident Tone of
German Reports
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General Staff Declares French Army Has Shot
Its Bolt and Kaiser’s Forces Gaining Surely
on the Center
Berlin, (via Rotterdam and London,
2:35 a. m.) —Morntx-ri of th«* general
•toss here In prt'..t«* conversation have
manifested Absolute confidence In the
outcome of the battle in France, as their
own army la steadily growing stronger
and the linos of communication have
been adjusted to permit a more efficient
supple of provisions and ammunition.
The French army, according to offi
• ofal bulletins. Is showing Mgns of having
shot Its bolt and has fought Itself to a
ftsndstill being unable to fill its <le
aUte< ranks like the German* while the
fcrmsns are slowly hut surely gaining
ground In the center.
Northing Deft nits.
The headquarter's announcements still
give no definite Information, however,
regarding the position of the battle line.
contenting s^ themselves with speaking of
If genera ly ss located between the Oise
and Meuse.
Lis 'ensnt Wercer von Haoulleu, one
of the best known German aviators, has
been killed. He was mortally wounded
while reconnolterlng a hosltle position
on September 4th but clung to the steer
ing gear until he and his observer had
•afely landed v within the German lines.
He then collepsed.
Killed st Chslons.
The well-known sculptor. Fredrlch
captain of the Fourth
Foot Guards, wss killed near Chalons.
WAR BULLETINS
16 YEAR OLDB IN RANKS.
London, 9 ■. m. A dispatch totho Exchange Telegraph Company
from Bordeaux asserts that hoys less than 16 years old are fighting In the
Oerman rnnks The correspondent declares he saw one wounded In the
the Ilordesux hospital whose site was 15 years and nine montha, and who
told him that all students at school ovyr 15 years bad been mobilized and
placed In different regiments.
MOTHERS CAN ACT.
Bordeaux, via Paris, 12:25 p. m. A decree issued by the French
government todny permits the mother of guardian of a youth under 20
years to act as a substitute for the absent father in legally authorizing
the young nan to volunteer for the war. The decree Is designed to make
it possible for a very large number of volunteers to enlist
BETWEEN 16 AND 45.
London, 2:33 p. m. German military authorities occupying the ter
ritory around Kalis*. Russian Poland, have called to the colors all Ger
man Inhabitants there between the ages of 18 and 45, according to a dis
patch to Reuters.
Many of the German subjects fled. Some of these were caught and
20 were hanged.
AUTOS CA N’T LEAVE.
Parle, 4t30 a. tn, —Beginning today no nutomohlles will ho allowed
. to leave Paris except military ainbulancea and cars carrying officials and
Journalists bound to and from Bordeaux. It Is thought this action may
be due to the use of automobiles by spies.
The cars, one black and one green, hnve been speeding nround the
outskirts of Paris defying the challenge of sentlnols. Both automobiles
were driven by chauffeurs wearing French uniform* nnd carrying passen
gers In plain clothes, who Is some cases hnve returned the flro directed at
them lijr-sentlnels There seems to ho no doubt that the cars were used
by spies »' v
GERMAN TRENCH WORK.
Bordeaux, via Paris. 12:10 p. mm. Intelligence received here from
the front concerning uciuh work done by the Germans throughout the
region north of Chalons Indicates that these protective works have been
constructed In n most extensive manner.
The Infantry trenches are from three to four feet deep and have
been arranged In parallel lines with connecting cuttings.
The artillery is protected by double lines of embankments twenty
yards apart nnd eartli shelters have been constructed for the protection
of the men while they slept.
TAKE AUBTRIAN STEAMER.
London, 1208 p. m.—A Stsr dispatch from Rome says warnhlps cruis
ing In the Adriatic have captured sn Austrian steamer flying the Greek
flag, loaded with arms and aminuiilt lon destined for Albania
NO DAMAGE.
London, 8.52 a. m.—An Exchange Telegraph Company dispatch from
Rome aays six Austrian torpedo boats have bombarded Antivnrt, a forti
fied port of Montenegro They made n special hut fruitless effort to de
stroy the French wireless station. No damage was Inflicted on the town
PROCLAIM R ELIGIOUB WAR.
London, 9:05 a. m.—l>!e Zelt, a Vienna newspaper, declared that the
holy synod at PetrograU ha* proclaimed a religious war against Germany
and Austria.
EAST GERMAN ARMY.
Btrlin, via. London.—' Ths German eastern army contlnnes its opera
tions In the district about Kuwalkl. Russian Poland, according to a state
ment Issued by the general staff last night.
Ths army Is now advancing on the fortress at Oaourec, 30 miles
southwest of Eyck. Eastern Prussia. This fortress guards ths River Bo
ber. which elsewhere cannot be crosaed, owing to awainpa, and forms a
natural harrier before the advancing army.
Prisoners Say German Airplanes Out of Com
mission By Lack of Gasoline; Captured
Wearing Red Cross Badges
Bordeaux, 8:00 s. m.—The Troyes' correspondent of Tho Temps has
■ant the following dispatch:
“Avcordttig to wounded prisoners. Gert an aeroplanes have been put
out of action through lark of gasoline. French aviators, on the other
hand, have been doing excellent work. One French airman dropped bombs
at an Important rsttroad junction with ths result that ten trains filled
with retreating Prussians were stalled.
"In the laet convoy of prisoners brought to Troves were seventeen
Imperial Guardsmen captured tn the wood near Vttry-le-Francois (de
partment of Marne) Attached to thetr sleeves by pins were Red Cross
Insignia, to which. It ts believed, they had no right. They have been aent
tn a French ambulance corps, where their qualifications may be tested.
EXPECT ASSAULT
AGAINST PRZEMSYL
London, 3:30 a. m.—A dispatch from
Roms to Ths Exchange Telegraph
Company soys:
"Dispatches from Vienna state that
the Austrians on Friday fortified an
extended new defensive front which
Will reach Cracow. General Bovcorlga
will command the right wing with his
center resting at Prxemyel; the center
will be commanded by General Von
Auffenberg with Tarnow as hts base
and the left wing will be commanded
by General I tank I with ths Germans
supporting his extreme left.
’’The entire Russian left wing undvr
command of General* Rutsky and
Brusslh’ff Is expected momentarily to
begin an attack. The Initial assault
Is expected against I'rMtusyL"
Tfermnn Wendel, a socialist member of
the Fteiehstag, who caused a sensation
during the udgot debate by closing his
speech with the words: “Long live
France," hai volunteered In the Frank
furter Landsturm battalion and has seen
service In Belgium.
Steel Arrows.
A shower of steel arrows released by
French aviators over a mile high In the
air Is the moat modern terror of war.
according to accounts of German wound
ed printed In the Munich Medical Week
ly. The arrows are of iS’essed steel
from 4 to C Inches long and a quarter of
an Inch In diameter. They hove a heavy
pointed head and n skfd *tnnlsed shaft.
The arrows seem to have caused more
surprise than net us 1 damage. Only one
man was killed by a head wound In the
attack described. the others, causing
mostly flesn wounds.
Paid Little Attention.
The regiment to which the wounded
belong, resting In ciose battalion, for
mation, paid little attention to two avia
tors circling a rnlle overhead until the
novel projectiles suddenly rained down,
scattering fsr and wide Men were
wounded In three companies.
Crown I‘rlrice George and ITlnce Fre
derick Christian of .Saxony, have been
nwarded the Iron cross.
MUCH OF LOUVAIN
NOT DESTROYED
Bsrlin, via. London, 2:40 a. m.—Ths
Nord Ih-utsche Allgemelne Zeitunt
publishes official despatches from the
German administration of Louvain
stating that though from a fifth to
a sixth part of the city ts in ruins,
most of the public buildings have been
preserved. Including ths beautiful city
halS The despatches say the damage
to Ht. Petera Cathedral was such that
ths building tan be restored easily,
and the art works were protected by
German soldiers. Ths German offi
cers did everything possible to check
the flip.
Many of the resident* are returning
and some of the shops have been re
opened Trains are being operated on
the railway between Louvain and Brus
sels. The courts have xeaujustl their
sessions at Louvain.
NEAR EPERNAY, PICTURE
DEATH AND DESOLATION
TDD AWFUL TO DESCRIBE
German Prisoners Being Used on Battlefield to Bury Corpses
of Comrades—Burial Trenches One Hundred and Fifty
Yards Long—Bodies Shoulder to Shoulder, Often in Layers
London, 5:01 a. m. —Telegraphing
from Bezanne, 25 miles south of Eper
nay, The Times correspondent says:
"The territory over which the second
day's battle of the Marne was fought
Is now a picture of devastation, abom
ination and death a!moat too awful to
describe.
“Even now many aons of the father
land are sleeping their iast sleep In
the open fields and In ditches where
they fell, or under hedges where they
crawled after being caught by u rifle
bullet or piece of shell, or where they
sought shelter from the mad rushes
of the Franc-tlreurs.
Their Dead Comrades.
“German prisoners are being used
on the battlefield In searching for and
burying their dead comrades. Over the
greater part of the huge battlefield
there has now been buried at least
those who died In open trenches. The
extensive forest area, however, has
hardly been searched, although hun
dreds of both French and Germans
must have sought refuge and died
there.
"Gong lines of newly broken brown
earth mark the graves of the victims.
Borne of these burial trenches are 150
yards long. The dead are placed
shoulder to shoulder and often In lay
ers. This gives some idea of the
slaughter that took place.
ILL RE-OPEN
R’WRY ADVANCE
ME CASE
Order Issued By Inter-State
Commerce Commission. The
Recent Interview With Presi
dent Wilson Probable Factor.
Washington.—The Interstate com
merce commission today decided to
re-open the eastern advance rale case
and will begin hearings here on Octo
ber lkth. A formal order to that effect
was prepared.
The railroads asked a re-hearing
shortly alter President Wilson had re
ceived a committee of railway presi
dents at the White House. How far
that conference may have gone toward
preparing the way for a re-opening of
the ruse is not known. It was said at
the time the railway men asked the
president to appeal to the country to
treat the railroads in a spirit of co
operation and tile president responded
by sending a sympathetic .etter to
Chairman Trumbull of the Chesapeake
and Ohio.
The railroads also asked the com
mission to modify its recent decision
winch granted Increases west of Pitts
burgh and denied all increases between
the great lakes and the Atlantic sea
board. They will press for a five per
cent Increase throughout the entire
territory east of the Mississippi and
north of the Ohio and Potomac rivers.
June Showing.
The railroads asked for a rehearing
not upon the showing made at the
bearings prior to the decision but upon
conditions which they claim have be
come apparent since. The showing of
the roads for June, which was not
avatlable when the case was before
tho commission last and the exigencies
thrust upon them by tho European
war were cited as the principal rea
sous.
THINKING DEEPLY
ON PEACE MOVE
Washington.—President Wilson Fri
day received an appeal from women of
all nations to lead a movement to end
the European war. it was carried to
the White House by Mrs. Rostka
Kchwimtner of Hungary, secretary of
the International Woman's Suffrage
Alliance. The total of those for whom
the appeal was made was not lees than
one mlUion women of' thirteen coun
tries.
"The president told me he was think
ing day and night about the posslbtlity
of peace In Europe," declared Mrs.
Bohwlmmer after her Interview. “He
seemed to he deeply Interested tn tho
movement and said he would loeo no
opportunity of taking practical steps
to end the war."
SPECIAL NOTICES
We. the undersigned physicians, limit
ing out- work exclusively to diseases of
the eye eer. nose and throat, wish to
announce that after September 15th our
office hours will bs from 9:00 a. m. to
2;fto tv m. with no other aftsrnnon
bourn/Sunday s by appointment.
We have taken this step In order to
ennhle us to devots ths afternoons to our
college, clinic and hospital duties, for
which ws receive no compensation, and
we request That our patients will assist
tn the rarivlng ■« of these charities by
arranging to make tbetr visits during
the forenoon.
ten offices will bs In oommuntcnlton
w us by telephone during the attrr
noons, so that *, war be quickly retch
ed lit cases of emergency or urgent ns
csaelty.
T. K OKRIKt* M. D.,
W. C. I.YLK. M l).,
*W C. KELLOGG. M l}.
L.BTAU, 13,16,1*.1t
THE AUGUSTA HERALD, AUGUSTA, GA.
“The peasants, who are rapidly com
ing back to the scene, are marking the
grave-trenches with crosses and plant
ing flowers above.
"Some of the hottest flghtlrg? of the
prolonged battle took place around the
beautiful old chateau of Mondement, on
a hill six miles east of Sezanne. This
relic of architectural art of Louis XIV
occupied a position which both sides
regarded as strategically important
and the conflict hern was of furnace
intensity for four days.
Hand to Hand.
The Germans drove the French out
in a terrific assault and then the
French guns were brought to bear, fol
lowed by hand-to-hand fighting on the
garden and lawns of the chateau and
even through the breached wails. The
French again held the building for a
few hours, only to retire before anoth
er determined German attack. On the
fourth day they swept the Germans out
again with shell fire, under w|ilch ths
walls of the chateau, although'two or
three feet thick, crumpled like paper.’
The correspondent describes evi
dences of how magnificently the Ger
mans are equipped. He saw pyramid
after pyramid of shrapnel shells aban
doned In the rout. The villages of
Oyes, VlUaneuve, Chattllon and Bolzy
aux-Rols were all bombarded and com
pletely destroyed.
SUBPEND DIVIDEND.
New York.—Directors of the United
States Gas and Electric Corporation,
which operates utilities companies In
various parts of the west and south,
announced today the suspension of thi
semi-annual three per cent dividend
on the first preferred stork.
The amount of this stock oust&ndlng
is $9,285,000. The directors announced
that because of the financial situation
It was deemed advisable to conserve
resources.
LEGAL NOTICES _
ADMINISTXTORS’ SALE.
By virtue of an order of the Court
of Ordinary of Richmond County, will
he sold at public outcry, on the first
Tuesday in October, 1914, at the Court
House door In said County, between the
legal hours of sale: the tract of land in
said County containing one hundred
acres; bounded North by W. H. Bran
don and A. Jordan; East by Bath Road;
South by A. Jordan; West by Hughes
lands.
Terms cosh.
W. A. CLARK & S. R. CLARK.
Administrators of M. Eugenia Hughes.
S 12 19 26 03
STATE OF GEORGIA.
RICHMOND COUNTY—
To the Superior Court of said County:
The petition of F. E. Rerrte, J. R
White and J. 1,. Evgle, all of Richmond
County. Georgia, respectfully shows:
1— That they desire for themselves, as
signs, associates und successors to be In
corporated and mads a body politic un
der the ns mo and style of BERRIE
TIRE & RUBBER COMPANY, for the
period of twenty years.
2 The principal office of said Com
pany shall be in the City of Augusta,
said State and County, with the right to
establish branch offices elsewhere.
3 The object of said corporation Is
pecuniary gain to Itself and stockholders.
4 Tile business to be carried on by
said corporation is the buying and sell
ing of automobile tires, furnishings, ac
cessories of every kind, gasoline, and the
repairing of automobile tires and auto
mobile accesorles and furnishings.
s—The capital stock of said corpora
tion is to be two thousand dollars, di
vided into shares of twenty-five dollars
each, with privilege of Increasing the
capital to five thousand dollars by a
majority vote of the stockholders, and
ten per cent of the capital has actually
been paid In.
6.—The petitioners desire all the com
mon law and statutory rights Incident to
corporations of this character, with the
right to buy. hold and sell such Veal es
tate, and personal property as ts suitable
for the purpose of the corporation, and
to execute notes as evidence of any In
debtedness Incurred or to be Incurred,
and to eccure the same by mortgage,
security deed cY other form of lien un
der existing law.
WHEREFORE, petitioners pray to he
Incorporated under the name and style
aforesaid with the powers. privileges
and immunities herein set forth, and as
are new, or may be hereafter allowed a
corporation of similar character under
the laws of Georgia
BRYSON CRANE,
Atty. at Law for Petitioners.
Filed In office this l!th day of Sept.,
1914. DANIEL KERR.
Clerk.
GEORGIA—RICHMOND COUNTY—
I, Daniel Kerr. Clerk of Superior Court
of said County, do hereby certify that
the foregoing is a true and correct copy
of the application for chart or bom Ber
rls Tire ,4 Rubber Co., as ths same ap
pears on file In this office.
Witness my official signature and the
seal of said Court, this l!th day of
September. 1914.
DANIEL KERR.
SIJ 19 2* OS Clerk.
In ths District Court of ths United
States for the Northeastern Division
of the Southern District of Georgia,
tn the mntter ot Royal Case. (Nick
Cooros and Pete George), tn Bankruptcy,
Bankrupt.
To the creditors of Royal Case (Nick
Cooros and Pete -.eorge) of Augusta.
On., In the County of Richmond and
District, aforesaid, a bankrupt.
Notice it hereby given that on ths
ltlth day of September, 1914, the said
Royal Case (Nick Cooros and Pets
George) were duly adjudged bankrupt,
and that the first meeting of their
creditors will be had tn my office In
Augusta. U*. on the twenty-ninth (29th)
day of September. 1914, at 13 o’clock
noon, at which time said creditors may
attend, ifov# thetr claims, appoint a
Trustee. examine the bankrupt and
transact such other business as may
properly com* before said meeting
Said bankrupts have offered a compo
sition "f twspry pec oent (to per rent)
to all creditor# not entitled to iwlorltr,
which offer will bs submitted to the
creditors after ths examinations of tbs
bankrupts at said meeting
This tsth day o! September 1»H.
JOOKPH fIANAHIj,
Bit ..... ~ Refsrts In Bankruptcy.
In thla atory Mr. Palmar, the
Rioted war correspondent, has paint
ed war as he hae seen It on many
battlefields, and between many na
tions. His intimate knowledge of
armies and armaments has enabled
him to produce a graphlo picture of
the greatest of all wars, and his
knowledge of conditions has led
him to prophesy an end of armed
conflicts. No man la better quali
fied to write the story of the final
world war than Mr. Palmer, and
he hae handled his subject with a
master hand.
(Continued from Yesterday.)
The absence In him of that quality
which Is the soldier's real glory, the
picture of this deserted leader, this
god of a machine who bad been
orushed by his machine, his very lack
of stoicism or courage—all this sud
denly appealed to Marta’s quick sym
pathies. They had once drunk tea to
gether.
"Oh, it was not personal! I did not
think of myself as a person or of you
as one—only of principles and of thou
sands of others—to end the killing-—to
save our country to Its people! Oh,
I'm sorry and, personally. I’m horrible
—horrible!’’ she called after him In a
broken, quavering gust of words which
he heard confusedly in tragic mockery.
He made no anewey he did not even
look around. Head bowed and hardly
seeing the path, he permlted the aide
to choose the way, which lay across
the boundary of the Galland estate.
CHAPTER XXI.
The Retreat.
Marta remained where Westerllng
had left her, rooted to the ground by
the monstrous spell of the developing
panorama' of seemingly limitless move
ment. With each passing minute there
must be a hundred acts of heroism
which, if isolated In the glare of a
day’s news, would make the publio
thrill. At the outset of the war she
had seen the Browns, as part of a pre
conceived plan. In cohesive rear-guard
resistance, with every detail of per
sonal bravery a utilized factor of or
ganized purpose. Now she saw de
fense, inchoate and fragmentary, each
part acting for itself, all deeds of per
sonal bravery lost In a swirl of disor
ganization. That was the pity of It,
the helplessness of engineers and of
levers when the machine was broken;
the warning of it to those who under
take war lightly.
The Browns' rifle flashes kept on
steadily weaving their way down the
slopes, their reserves pressing close on
the heels of the skirmishers in greedy
swarms. A heavy column of Brown in-
He Wax Dipping Hit Finger* In th*
Cxvlty and Writing, “Kill M*l”
fantry was swinging In toward the
myriad-legged, writhing gray caterpil
lar on the pass road and many fleld
batteriee were trotting along a parallel
road. Their plan developed suddenly
when a swath of gun-fire was laid
across the pass road at the mouth ot
the defile, as much as to say: “Here
we make a gate ot death!” At the
same time the head of the Brown In
fantry column flashed Its bayonets over
the crest ot a hill toward the point
where the shells were bursting. These
men minded not the desperate, scat
tered rifie-flre Into their ranks. Before
their eyee was theprlte of a panic
that grew with thefrtpproach. Kinks
were out of legs stiffened by long
watches. The hot breath of pureult
was In their nostrils, the serer of vic
tory In their blood.
In the defile, the Impulse of one Oray
•tfaggler. who shook a handkerchief
aloft In fatalistic submission to the In
evitable, became the Impulse of aIL
WOon a thousand white signals of sur
render were blossoming. As the firing
abruptly ceased, Marta heard the faint
roar of the mighty huzzas of the hunt
ers over the size of their bag.
Some doctors of different regiments
thrown together in the havoc of rem
nants of many organizations, with the
help of hospital-corps men, were try
ing to extricate the wounded from
among the dead. They heard a wom
an’s voice and saw a woman’s face.
They did not wonder at her presence,
for there was nothing left in the world
for thorn to wonder at. Had an imp
from hell or an angel from heaven ap
peared, or a shower of diamonds fallen
from the sky, they would not have
been surprised. Their duty was clear;
there was work of their kind to do,
endless work. Units of the broken ma
chine, in the Instinct of their calling
they struggled with the duty nearest
at hand. They begged her to go back
to the house; this was no place for
her.
But Marta did not want safety. Dan
ger was sweet; It was expiation. She
was helping, actually helping; that
was enough. She envied the peaceful
dead —they had no nightmares—as she
aided the doctors in separating the
bodies that were still breathing from
those that were not; and she steeled
herself against every ghastly sight
save one, that of a man lying with his
legs pinned under a wagon body. His
Jaw had been shot away. Slowly he
was bleeding to death, but he did not
realize it. He realized nothing in his
delirium except the nature of his
wound. He was dipping his finger in
the cavity and, dab by dab, writing
“Kill me!” on the wagon body. It sent
reeling waves'-of red before her eyes.
Then a shell burst near her and a doc
tor cried out:
“She’s hit!”
But did not hear him. She
heard only the dreadful crack of the
splitting shrapnel jacket. She had a
sense of falling, and that was all.
The next that she knew she was In
a long chair on the veranda and the
vague shadows bending over her grad
ually Identified themselves as her
mother and Minna.
“I remember when you were telling
of the last war that you didn’t ewoon
at the sight of the wounded, mother,”
Marta whispered.
“But I was not wounded,” replied
Mrs. Galland.
Marta ceased to he only a conscious
ness swimming in a haze. With the
return of her faculties, she noticed
that both her mother and Minna were
looking significantly at her forearm;
so she looked at It, too. It was
bandaged.
“A cut from a shrapnel fragment,”
said a doctor. “Not deep,” he added.
“Do X get an iron cross?” she asked,
smiling faintly. It was rather pleasant
to be alive.
“All the crosses —iron and bronae
and silver and gold!” he replied.
All firing except occasional scattered
shots had now ceased In the immedi
ate vicinity, though in the distance
could be heard the snarl of the firmer
resistance that the Grays were mak
ing at some other point The Galland
house, for the time being, was Isolated
—in possession of neither side.
“Isn't there something else I can do
to help with the wounded?" Marta
asked. She longed for action in order
to escape her thoughts.
“You've had a terrible shock—when
you are stronger,” said the doctor.
"When you have had something to
eat and drink,” observed the practical
Minna authoritatively.
Marta would not have the food
brought to her. She insisted that she
was strong enough to accompany
Minna to the tower. While Minna
urged mouthfuls down Marta's dry
throat as she sat outside the door of
the sitting-room with her mother a
number of weary dust-streaked faces,
with feverish energy In their eyes,
peered over the hedge that bounded
the garden on the side toward the pass.
These scout skirmishers of Stransky's
men of the 63d Regiment of the
Browns made beckoning gestures as
to a crowd, before they sprang over
the hedge and ran swiftly, watchfully,
toward the linden stumps, closely fol
lowed by their comrades. Soon the
whole garden was overrun by the lean,
businesslike fellows, their glances all
ferret-like to the front.
"Look, Minna!” exclaimed Maria.
"The giant who carried the old man In
pickaback the first night of the war!"
Minna was flushing, but the flush
dissipated and she drew up her chin
when Stransky, looking around, recog
nized her with a merry, confident
wave of his hand.
“See, he’s a captain and he wears
an Iron cross!” said Maria as Stransky
hastened toward them.
"He acts like It!” assented Minna
grudgingly.
Eager, leviathan, his cap doffed with
a sweeping gesture as he made a low
bow, Stransky was the very spirit of
retributive victory returning to claim
the ground that he had lost.
"Well, this Is like getting home
again I" he cried.
"So I see!” said Minna equivocally.
Stransky drew his eyes together,
sighting them on the bridge of his noes
thoughtfully *i thi| dubious reception.
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 19
“I came back for the chance to kiss
a good woman’s hand,” he observed
with a profound awkwardness and
looking at Minna’s hand. “Your
hand!” he added, the cast in his eyes
straightening as he looked directly at
her appealingly.
She extended her finger-tips and h«
preseed his lips to them.
"I kept seeing the way you looked
when you belted me one in the face,”
he went on, “and knocked any an
archism out of me that was left after
the shell burst. I kept seeing your
face In my last glimpse when the
Grays made me run for it from your
kitchen door before I had half a chance
for the oration crying for voioe. You
were in my dreams! You were in bat
tle with me!”
“This sounds like a disordered
mind,” observed Minna. ‘Tve heard
men talk that way before.”
“Oh, I have talked that way to other
women myself!” said Stransky.
“Yes,” said Minna bitterly. His can
dor was rather unexpected.
“I have talked to others In
on the high road,” he continued. ‘‘But
never after a woman had struck me in
the face. That blow sank deep—deep
—deep as what Lanstron said when I
revolted on the march. I say to you
with this”—he touched the cross—“on
my breast And I’m not going to give
you up. It’s a big world. There’s
room In It for a place for you after the
war is over and I’m going to make the
place. Good-by till I’m back—back to
stay! Good-by, little daughter!” he
added with a wave of his hand to Clar
issa as he turned to go. “Maybe we
shall have our own automobile some
day. It’s no stranger than what’s been
happening to me since the war began.”
“If you don’t marry him, Minna, I’ll
—I’ll —” Mrs. Galland could not find
words for the fearful thing that she
would do.
“Marry him! I have only met him
three times for about three minutes
each time!” protested Minna. She
was as rosy as a girl and In her confu
sion she busied herself retying the rib
bon on Clarissa Eileen’s hair. “He
called you little daughter!" she said
softly to the child as she withdrew into
’the tower.
Marta remained in the chair by the
doorway of the tower, weak and list
less. Now her lashes were closed;
again they opened slightly as her gaze
roved the semicircle of the horizon.
mounted officer and his Irderly gallop
ing across the fields to the pass road
caught her desultory attention and.
held it, for they formed the most Im
petuous object'on the landscape. When
the officer-alighted at the foot of the
garden and tossed his reins to the ore
derly, she detected something familiar
about him. He leaped the garden wall!
at a bound and, half running, cams to
ward the tower. Not until he lifted tila
cap and waved it did she associate thla
lithe, dapper artillerist with a stooped
old gardener in blue blouse and torn
straw hat who had once shuffled among
the flowers at her service.
“Hello! Hello!” ha shouted In
clarion greeting at sight of her. “Hello,
my successor!”
Only in the whiteness of his hair
was he like the old Feller. His tone,
the boyish sparkle of hie black eyes,
those full,. expressive lips playing
over the brilliant teeth, bis easy grace,
his quick and telling gestures—they;
were of the Feller of cadet days.
"Wonderful —wounded! Wonderfulf
Was there ever such a woman?” he
cried. "Destiny has played with up.
It sent a spy to your garden. It put
you in my place. A strange service,
ours—yes, destiny is in it!"
"Yes," she breathed painfully, hla
suggestion striking deep.
“We are going on, I and my
on to the best yet —on In the pursuit l:
Nothing can stop us I We ehall hit tftf
Grays so fast and hard that they can
never get their machine In order again,
God bless you! Everything that is fine
In me will always think finely of youll
You and Lanny—two fixed stars for
met”
“Truly!” She was radiant "Truly?**
she asked wistfully.
“Yes, yes—a yes as real as the
guns!”
"Then it helps! Oh, how It helps I *•
she murmured almost inaudibly.
“Good-by! God bless you!” he cried
as be started to go, adding over hla
shoulder merrily: "I’ll send you a plo
ture post-card from the Grays’ capital
of my guns parked In the palace
square.”
Bhe watched him leap the garden
wall as lightly as he had come and
gallop away, an impersonation of the
gay, adventurous spirit of war, count
ing death and wounds and hardship aa
the delights of the gamble. Yes, he
would follow the Grays, throwing
shells In the irresponsible Joy of toss
ing confetti In a carnival. Pursuit!
Waa Feller’s the sentiment of the
army? Were the Browns not to stop
at the frontier? Were they to change
their song to, “Now we have ours\we
shall take some of theirs?”
thought was fresh fuel to the live coeU,
that still remained under the ashes
To be continued tomorrow
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