Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1900-09-30

my opinion, Greece has no chance
against Turkey. and that is why / con-
slider England ought to interfere. and
not allow the war to take place"
i These sentiments were, perhaps, a
little discouraging; but the evident
good-feeling which underlay them re-
commended William Smith to the
meeting. There were numbers of Greek
residents in London present, all of
whom appeared to be pleased with the
boyish enthusiasm OF the speaker.
Both he and Vaughan found them
selves the recipients Of numerous cards
and letters Of introduction for various
persons in Athens, from the Metropoli-
tan of the Greek Church down to the
editor of the newspaper which repre-
scented the war parry in Greece.
/ 1t was not until late hour that che
gathering broke up, and the two volun
teers were suffered to withdraw from
the public gaze.
Even this was not the last demonstra-
! ton in their honour They were de-
stined to receive send-off at the rail-
/ way station, at watch not less enthusi-
asm was displayed.
/ Mr.. Cracraft was again to the fore,
and harangued the crowd on the plat
! form, while Vaughan and his compan-
ion were arranging their luggage in the
railway carriage.
A minute before the train started,
Theodore Kalarakis, appeared upon the
scene, and before Vaughan knew what
he was about, the Greek had entered the
carriage and taken a seat beside him.
II am coming out with you," he said.
II shall be able to help you when you
get to Athens, by interpreting between
you and the Creeks
| The offer was civil one, and it was
| natural that Kalarakis should travel out
] in company with the two men who were
volunteering to fight for his country
Nevertheless, a strange feeling of dis
like and uneasiness, for which he could
not account, crept over the mind of
Vaughan and he heartily wished that
! NJ. Kalarakis had adhered to his origi-
nal intention of going out by the pre-
vious train.
But it was now too late to interfere;
the crowd were shouting, the train was
beginning to move, and he gave a last
look out of the window.
/ What was that woman's figure at the
back of the crowd, shrinking out of
sight with u veil half drawn over her
face? Like lightning the thought rush
ed to his mind of Gertrude The next
| instant came tormenting doubt If it
were Gertrude, had she come to see the
last of him or of Kalarakis? He flung
! himself down on the cushions of the
/ railway carriage, needless of the plaud-
its of the fast receding throng, and gaz-
/ ed bitterly at the handsome Greek, who
| had come athwart his life.
| Southwark across France and Italy.
! through land murmuring of war At
every station the travellers saw evil
dence of the truth OF the oftrepeated
declaration that Europe is an armed
camp. Over all these European peoples
! hung that dread shadow of fear from
which the English in thAir sea-girt isle
are free. The spectre of war sits ever
at the council-boards of the Emperors.
zach mile of sentry-guarded frontier
may become at any hour a bloody de-
| file vomiting armed hordes to carry ruin
and death across the land: and thus it
was that the Great Powers held their
breath and watched with strained eyes
the signs OF trouble in the East, where
rotten throne was crumbling to its
fall, and the young enfranchised ma
lions all around it were sharpening
| their bright swords to be ready when
the hour should strike
| All along the route they saw the SOL
der; in the streets OF the city where
they alighted for an hour, as they pass
! cd. the soldier jostled them at every
yard. at each ~yside station, recruits
were coming and going. As they swept
in grey mist down the eastern coast of
Italy between the grey olives and the
grey sea, train after train laden with
soldiers passed them and repassed at