Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1914-09-18

It must be the pollen from the hy drangeas,' She licked her handker chief from her belt and passed it tC him. Show that you know how to be useful"
 He performed the task with delib crate care.
 Heavens! You even have some on your ear and some on your hair; but I'll leave it on your hair; it's rather be coming. There you are!' he concluded
 of my hair, tool
 'Very well. I always obey orders"
 T oughtn't to have asked you to dc 1t at all!" she exclaimed with q sud den change of manner as they started up to the house. But habit ot friendship. habit of liking to believe in ones friends, was uppermost forgot. oughtnt even to have shaken hands with you!"
 Marta! What now, NIarta?' he asked
 He had known her ill reproach. ir anger, in laughing mockery, ill mili tant seriousness, but never before like this. The pain and indignation in her eyes came not from the sheer hurt o1 a wound but from the hurt of its source. ltwas as if he had learned by the signal of it's loss that he had a deeper hold on her than he had real iZed
 "Yes, I have bone to pick with you she said, recovering grim sort Of fellowship. "A big bone! If you re half a friend you'll give me the very marrow of it."
 "I am ready!" he answered more pa thetically than philosophically.
 There's not time now: after lunch con, when mother is taking her nap, she concluded as they came to the last step and saw Mrs. Galland on the veranda
 Alter luncheon Mrs. Galland kept bat tling with her mods until nature was victorious and she fell fast asleep Marta, grown restless with impatience, suggested to Lanstron that they stroll in the garden, and they took the path tower, stopping in an arbor with high hedges on either side around statue of Mercury.
 'Now!" exclaimed Marta narrowly. Ut was you, Lanny, who recommend ed Teller to us as a gardener, compe- tent though deaf! I have proved him to be man of most sensitive hearing. didn't let him Rnow that he was dis covered. You brought him here-you, Lanny, you are the one to explain
 True, he is not deaf!" Lanstron re- piled.
 He is spy?" she asked.
 Yes. a spy. You can put things in bright light, Marital" He found words coming with difficulty in face of the pain and disillusion of her set look.
 Using some man as a pawn; setting him as a spy in the garden where you have been the welcome friend!" she exclaimed. "A spy on w'at--on my mother, on Minna, on me, on the flow CTS, as part of this monstrous game of trickery and lies that you are play ing?"
 There was no trace of anger in her tone. It was that of one mortally hurt Anger would have been easier to bear than the measuring, penetrating won. der that found him guilty of such a horrible part. Those eyes would have confused Partow himself with the steady, yelling intensity of their gaze She did not see how his left hand was twitching and how he stilled it's move ment by pressing it against the bench. You will take Teller with you when you go!" she said, rising"
 Lanstron dropped his head in kind of shaking throb of his whole body aud raised face white with appeal
 ''Marta!" He was speaking to a pro. file, very sensitive and yet like ivory five no excuse for such an abuse oi hospitality except the obsession of a lOathsome work that some man must do and was set to do. My God. Marta. :.
 
 machine. l keep thinking, what ii war comes and some error of mine let the enemy know where to strike the blow of victory: or if there were infor. nation might have gained and failed to gain that would have given us the victory-if, because ] had not done my part, thousands of lives of our soldiers were sacrificed needlessly!"
 At that she turned on him quickly her face softening.
 You do think of that-she lives?"
 Yes, why shouldn't I?"
 Of those on your side!" she ex claimed. turning away.
 Yes, of those first" he replied And, Marta, did not tell you wh, Teller was here becauce he did not want me to-"
 CHAPTER VI.