The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1914-11-07
CHAPTER v.
A sunday Morning Call.

AS boy, Arthur lanstron nau per-
sisted In being an exception TO the In
fuences OF both heredity and environ
ment. Though his father and both
grandfathers were officers who be-
lieved theirs to be the true gentle
mans profession, he had preferred
any kind OF mechanical toy 70 arrang-
ing the most gayly painted tin sol
dlers In formation on the nursery
floor; and he would rather read about
the wonders OF natural history and
electricity than the campaigns OF Ma.
poleon and Frederick the Great and
my Lord Nelson. Left to his own
choice. he would miss the parade OF
the garrison for inspection by an ex-
cellency In order to ask questions OF
| a man wiping the oil of his hands with
cotton-waste, who was far more enter
tanning to him than the most spick-and-
span ramrod OF sergeant.
Upon being told one day that he was
to go to the military school the follow
ing autumn. he broke out in open re-
| bellion.
Il don't want to so to the army" he
said ss47shs@s iIsGs ssT~s~ NC
Why" asked his father. thinking
that when the boy had to give his rea-
sons he would soon be argued out Of
| the heresy. sasS,.; : V..
aIts drifting d few hours a day. then
nothing to do" Arthur replied. All
your work waits on war and you don't
know that there will ever be any war
II waits on something nobody wants
to happen. Now, II you manufacture
something, why, you see wool come
out cloth. steel come out an automo
bile. II you build bridge you see Il
rising little by little. You're getting
your results every day; you see your
mistakes and your successes. You're
making something, creating some
thing; there's something going on nj
the while that isn't guesswork.
think that's what want TO say. Yo'
won't order me TO be a soldier, vii
your"
The father. loath TO do this. called Il
the assistance OF an able pleader then
Eugene Partow. lately become chief Q
staff OF the Browns, who was an oil
friend OF the Lanstron family. Parto'
turned the balance on the side of fila
affection. He kept watch or the boz
but without favoring him with inIl
ence. Young Lanstron, who wanted I
see results. had TO earn them. He rea
ICED in practice the truth of Partow
saying that there was nothing he ha
ever learned but what could be OF ser
ice 20 him as an officer
Finding enough work to dor Pa
tow would ask with a chuckle whe
they met In these days; for no ma
made Lanstron both chief OF INTEL
gence and chief aerostatic ONCE
"a Young Colonel Lanstron's was the du'
OF gaining the secrets OF the Grt
ia stan and keeping those OF the Brow
~ and organizing up-tothe-moment ei
cheney In the new forces OF the air.
IA He had remarked truly enough tn
1e the injury 10 his left hand served
n a better reminder against the folly
et mountaineering than string, even
d. large red string. tied around his .
ut ger. Thanks to skillful surgery, q
II fingers. incapable or spreading muc
at we're yet serviceable and had hr
do grip OF the wheel as he rose from Z
as aeroplane station on the Sunday MOI
N. ing after Marta's return home for
m flight 20 La Tir.
an lie knew the pattern weaving und
In his feet as one knows that OF his on
CHI garden from an overlooking windo
TX. Every detail of the stan map rayin'
Ill. roads, buildings. battery positions. "
tn stitched together in the flowing real
no OF actual vision. No white posts we
ed necessary to tell him where
as boundary between the two nations Il
The line was drawn in his brain.
ire Now that Lanstron was the org
IN Izer OF the aviation corps his o.
an flights we're rare. Mostly they W.
be made to la Tir. His visits TO Ma
rot we're his holidays. All the time q
she was absent on her journey arou
the world they had corresponded. :
letters. so revealing OF herself and
peculiar angles OF observation. form
bundle sacredly preserved. h