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TWO Confident Tone of German Reports w 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 Use Herald “Wants”