The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1914-12-12

had heard the eye saw-war. working
In tones OF the landscape by day with
smokeless powder: war. revealed by
It's tongues of flame at night. Ugly
bursts OF fire from the higher hills
spread TO the heavens like an aurora
borealis and broke their messengers
In sheets or flame over the lower hills
the batteries OF the Browns sprin-
Killing death about the heads OF the
gunners OF the Grays emplacing their
batteries. Staccato flashes from
single point counted so many bullets
from an automatic which directed by
the beams OF the search-ights. found
their targets in sections OF advancing
infantry. Hill crests, set of with
flashes running back and forth, de-
marked infantry lines OF the Browns
assisting the automatics.
There were lulls between the
crashes OF the small arms and the
heavy, throaty speech OF the guns.
lulls that seemed TO say that both
sides had paused for breathing
spell; lulls that allowed the battle in
the distance to be heard in it's perva-
siye undertone. In one OF them, when
even the undertone had ceased for a
few seconds. Marta caught faintly,the
groans OF wounded man-one OF the
crew OF Gray dirigible burned by
an explosion and brought in his agony
softly to earth by billowing piece OF
envelope which acted as a parachute.
Fighting proceeded IN la Tir In
stages OF ferocity and blank silence.
The upper part OF the town. which
the Browns still held. was in dark
ness; the lower part. where the Grays
were, was Illuminated
Another one OF Lanny's plans!"
thought Marta Gle would have them
work in the light, while we fire out
OF obscurityl"
Soon all the town was In darkness.
for the Grays had cut the wire in the
main conduit shortly after she had
heard the groans OF the wounded man.
There the automatlcs broke out in
mad storm, voiclng their feelings at
street for the space OF minute, be-
fore those who escaped could plaster
themselves against doorways or find
cover in alleys. Then silence from
the automatics and a cheer from the
Browns that rasped out its triumph
like the rubbing together of steel files.
From the line OF defense. that in
cluded the first terrace OF the Galland
grounds as the angle OF a redoubt not
"A shot, not "A sound; silence on the
part OF officers and men as profound
as Mrs Galland's slumber. while one
OF the Browns search-lights, like some
great witch's slow-turning eye in a
narrow radius, covered the lower ter
races and the road.
Marta gave intermittent glances at
the garden; the glances OF guardian.
She happened TO be looking in that
direction when figures sprang across
the road. crouching. running with the
short. quick steps OF no body move.
ment accompanying that OF the legs
The search.light caught them In mer-
CHESS silhouette and the automatic
and the rifles from behind the sand
bags on the first terrace let 60 Some
of the figures dropped and lay In the
road and she knew that she had seen
men hit for the first time. Others, she
thought. got safely to the cover OF the
gutter on the garden side. or those
on the road, some were still and some
she saw were moving slowly back on
their stomachs to safety. Now the
search-light laid It's beam steadily on
the road Again silence. From the
unper terrace came n great voice ike
Lie, -. ..., ,,-..y, .Io., - human ,nfOat.
why didn't we level those ter.
races? They'll creep up from one to
the other!" II was Stransky.
In answer was another voice-Del-
larme's.
Perhaps there wasn't time TO do
everything. II they get ls far as the
first terrace-well. In case OF crisis. !
we have hand-grenades. But. God !
knows. | hope we shall not have to
use them"
After an interval. more figures made
a rush across the road They, too, in |
Stransky's words, paid a price for
seeing the garden But the flashes |
from the rifles and the automatic pro- |
vidod "A target for "a Gray battery. The !
blue spark that flies from an overhead |
trolley or a third rail, multiplied a |
broke in Marta's face. |
IL was dazzling. binding as bolt OF |
lightning "A few feet distant, with tho |
thunder crash al the same second. |
followed by the thrashing hum OF bull |
lets and fragments against the side |
OF the house.
'1 knew that this must GOMEZ"
something within her said. II she
had not been prepared for IL by the
events OF the last twelve hours she
would have jumped to her feet with
an exclamation OF natural shock and |