Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1914-09-24
She Looked Up to See Gray DirisibIe.

She Looked Up to See a Gray DirisibIe.
and works of art and put them in the
cellar, where they will be safe"
The captain of engineers in COM
mand, seeing Marta, hurried toward
her
Miss Galland, isn't it?" he asked.
Il have been waiting for you. II
we'll, | found that | could not make
the situation clear to your mother"
HE thinks me in my second child
hood or out of my head" Mrs. Galland
explained with a shade of tartness.
And he has been SO polite in trying
to conceal his opinion, too" she added
with comprehending smile.
The captain flushed in embarrass-
ment.
IL can't speak too strongly" he
declared when he had regained his
composure Though everything seems
to be safe here now, it may not be in
an hour. You must go, all of you.
This house will be an inferno as soon
as the SD falls back, and l can't pos
sibly get your mother to appreciate
the fact, Miss Galland."
But I said that l did appreciate it
and that the Gallands have been in
infernos before-perhaps not as had
as this one that is coming-but, Their,
the Gallands' must keep abreast of the
times" replied Mrs. Galland. II have
asked Minna ard che prefers to re.
Gain. l All glad of that. | am glad
now that we kept her, Marta. She is
as loyal as my old maid and the butler
and the cook were to your grand
mother in the last war. All, the Gal
lands had many servants them"
"This isn't like the old war. This
place will be shelled, enfiladed! And
you two the captain protested des-
perately.
81 became Galland when I mar
ried," sale Mrs Gallan&. land the
Galland women have always remained
with their property in time OF war.
Naturally, l shall remain!"
Miss Galland, it was you-your in
1uence l was counting on to-" The
captain turned to Marta in final ap-
peal
Mrs. Galland was watching her
daughters face intently.
1--WE stay!" replied Marta, and the
captain saw in the depths of her eyes,
cold blue-black, that further argu-
ment was useless.
Now came the sweep of 9. rising roar
from the sky with the command to at
tention of the rush Of fast express
train past a country railway station.
Two Gray dirigibles with their escort
of aeroplanes were bearing toward the
pass over the pass road. The auto
matte and the riflemen in the tower
banged away to no purpose, but the
central sections Of the envelope of the
rear dirigible had been torn in shreds;
it was buckling. Clouds of blue shrap-
A number of field-guns joined forces
with battery of high-angle guns in a
havoc that left a drifting derelict; the
remainder of the squadron had COM
pleted it's loop and was pointing
toward the plain.
From great altitude, literally out
of the blue Of heaven, high over the
Gray lines, Marta made out Brown
squadron of dirigibles and planes de-
scending across the track of the
Grays.
The Gray dirigibles, stern on, were
little larger than umbrellas and the
planes than swallows: the Brown diri-
gibles, side on, were big sausages and
their planes specks. To the eye, this
meeting was like that of two small
flocks Of soaring birds apparently UNI
able to change their course. But
imagination could picture the fearful
clash of forces, whose wounded would
find the succor of no hospital except
impact on the earth below
Marta put her hands over her eyes
for only a second. she thought, before
she withdrew them in vexation--
hadn't she promised herself not to be
cowardly?-to see one Brown dirigible
and two Brown aeroplanes ascending
at sharp angle above a cloud Of
smoke to escape the high-angle guns
of the Grays.
We've got them all! No lips sur
vive to tell what the eye saw!" ex-
claimed the engineer captain. his