Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1914-09-18
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the defensive La Tir is in an angle. | It does not belong i'll the permanent tactical line of our defenses. Never theless, there will be hard lighting here. The Browns will 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 as heavy as we can.
 You need not use euphonious terms,' she said without lifting her lashes or any movement except a quick, nervous gesture of her free hand. What you mean is that you will kill as many as possible of the Grays, isn't is? And if you could kill 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 ob- jecteG 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. l want to look at war face to face, free of the will-o the-wisp glamour that draws on soldiers"
 We fall back to our first line of de- dense, fighting all the 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 Westerling means to make it his headquarters"
 Our house Westerlings headquar- ters!' she repeated. With a start that brought her up erect, alert, challeng- ing, her lashes fickering, she recalled that Westerling had said at parting that he should see her if war came. This corroborated Lanstron's infornar tion. One side wanted spy in the garden; the other a general ill the choice? He had ceased to be Lanny. He personified war. Westerling per sonifed war. "I suppose you have spies under his very nose-in his very staff offices?" she asked
 And probably he has ill ours," said prevent it.'
 What pretty example of trust among civilized nations!" she cN- claimed You say that Westerling, who commands the killing on his side, will be in no danger. And. Lanny, are you 8 person of such distinction in the business of killing that you also will be out of danger?'
 She did not see, as her eyes poured her hot indignation into his, that his maimed hand was twitching or how he bit his lips and flushed before he re- piled: ut=
 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 eff ciency which means victory
 An autocracy, a tyranny over the lives of all the adult males in countries that boast Of the ballot and seIf-gov- erning institutions! she put in.
 But l hope" he went on, with the quickening pulse and eager smile that used to greet call from Teller to ''set things going in their cadet days, that 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 shower of bombs, that would be positively heav- enly. wouldn't it?" She bent nearer to him, her eyes flaming demand and satire.
 No! War-necessary, horrible, hell ish!" he replied Something in her seemed to draw out the brutal truth she had asked for in place of euphoni- Ous terms.
 When I became chief of intelligence 1 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 now, but abandoned as chimerical All that was necessary was to install the instrument, which Teller did. I, too, saw the plan as chimerical, yet it was a chance-the one out of a thousand. If it should happen to succeed we SuOulu pl;sy Wllu our CdIuS COHCcdlGu and theirs on the table.
 "The rest of Feller's part you have guessed already" he concluded. You can see how a deaf, inoffensive old gardener would hardly seem to know a Gray soldier from a Brown; how it might no more occur to Westerling to send him away than the family dog or cat; how he might retain his quarters in the tower;' how he could judge the atmosphere of the staff, whether elated or depressed, pick up scraps of conver- sation, and as trained officer, know the value of what he heard and report it over the phone to Partow's head quarters"
 But what about the aeroplanes? she asked. "I thought you were to de- pend on them for scouting"
 "We shall use them, but they are the least tried of all the new re- sources" he said. "A Gray aeroplane may cut Brown aeroplane down be- fore it returns with the news we want. At most, when the aviator may descend low enough for accurate observation he can see only what is actually being