Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-09-21

tCopyrieht 1914. by Charles Scribnsrb Sons,
Teller had won the day for himself
where a friends pleas might have
failed. This was as 1t should be, Lam.
stron thought.
THE right view-the view that you
were bound to take!" he said.
And yet, don't know your plans
for him, Lanny. There is another thing
to consider" she replied, with an alb
Supt change Of tone. '"But hrst let ~
seave Feller's quarters. We arc in.
truders here"
"A man playing deaf; secret tele-
phone installed on our premises with.
out our consent-this Is all know SO
far" said Marta. seated opposite
Lanstron at one end Of the circular
seat in the arbor of Mercury.
"Of course. with our 100000
against their 100000. the Grays will
take the offensive" he said. For US.
the defensive. La Tir IL in IN angle.
1t does not belong In tho permanent
tactical line Of our defenses. Never
theless, there will be hard faghting
here. The Browns win fall back step
by step, and we mean. with relatively
small cost to ourselves 70 make the
Grays pay heavy price for each step
just az heavy az We can"
"You need not use euphonious
TERMS" she said without lifting her
lashes or any movement except .
quick, nervous gesture Of her freo
hand. What you mean IN that you
will kill as many as possible of tho
Grays. isn't Is? And II you could kin
FIVE for every man you lost that would
be splendid, wouldn't it,"
Il don't think Of it as splendid. There
is nothing splendid about war" he OBJ
jected; mot to me, Marta"
And after you have made them pay
FIVE to one or ten to one in human
lives for the tangent, what then? Go
on! want to look at war face to face.
free of the will-o;the-wisp glamour that
draws on soldiers
I'VE fall back to our flrst limo Of de-
dense, fighting all tho time. The Grays
occupy La Tir. which will be out Of the
reach OF our guns. Your house will
no longer be in danger, and We happen
to know that Westeriing means to
make 1t his headquarters"
Our house Westerling's headQuar.
ters!" she repeated. With start that
brought her up erect. alert. challenE-
ing, her lashes fficker1ng, she recssfoA
that Westerling had said at parting
that he should see her II war came.
This corroborated Lanstron's informa-
ton. One side wanted a spy in the
garden; the other general In the
house. Yves she expected to make q
choice? He had ceased to be Lanny.
He personified war. Westerling per-
sonified war. Il suppose you have
spies under his very nose-in his very
staff ofIices?" she asked.
And probably he has in ours" said
Lanstron, though we do our best to
prevent 1t.
What a pretty example Of trust
among civilized nations!" she ex-
claimed. you say that Westerling,
who commands tho killing on his side.
will be in no danger. And, Lanny. are
you a person of such distinction in the
business of killing that you also will
be out of danger?"
She did not see. rs her eyes poured
her hot indignation into his, that his
manned hand was twitching or how
he bit his lips and flushed before he re-
Piled:
Each one goes where he Is sent.
link by link, down from the chief Of
staff. Only in this way can you have
that solidarity, that harmonious effl-
cheney which means victory"
IAN autocracy. q tyranny over the
lives Of all the adult males in countries
that boast of the ballot and self-gov.
erning institutions" she put in.
But / hope" he went on, with the
uuickening pulse and eager smile that
used to greet call from Feller-to "set
things going" In their cadet days, that
I may take out squadron Of dirigibles.
After all this spy business, that would
be to my taste"
"And If you caught . regiment In
close formation with q shower Of
bombs, that would be positively heav-
emily, wouldn't it," She bent nearer
TO him, her eyes flaming demand and
satire.
mo! War-neoessary, horrible, hell
ish!" he replied. Something In her
seemed to draw out the brutal truth
she had asked for in place Of euphoni-
Gus terms.
when I became chief Of intelligence
i found that an underground wire had
been laid to the castle from the Eighth
division headquarters. which will be
our general staff headquarters in time
,of war. The purpose was the same as
rcw, but abandoned as chimerical. Al
that was necessary was to install the
instrument, which Teller did. l, too,
saw the plan as chtmerical, yet 1t was
q chance-the one out Of a thousand.
liz 1t should happen to succeed we
should play with our cards concealed
ahnd theirs on the table.
1.-THE rest Of Feller's part yol have
kuessed already" he concluded. You
can see how deaf. inoffensive old
gardener would hardly seem to know
= Gray soldier from . Brown: how II
might no more occur to Westerling TO
send him away than the family dog 81
cat: how he might retain his 0uartera
i'm tho tower: how he could Judge the
atmosphere OF the stan. whether slatsd
or depressed. pick up scraps Of CONVEX.
eation. and, - . trained oddcer. know
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