The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1914-12-05

ono LOOKED Up 10 Gee STdy DlTl9lple
| declared when ne nau regaIneG MS
| composure. Though everything seems
TO be safe here now, II 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 | can't pos.
sibly get your mother TO appreciate
the fact, Miss Galland"
But said that did appreciate Il
and that the Gallands have been In
infernos before-perhaps not as bad
as this one that is coming but, then,
the Gallands must keep abreast OF the
times replied Mrs. Galland. Il have
asked Minna and she prefers to re-
main. am glad OF that am glad
now that we kept her Marta She 49,
as loyal as my old maid and the butler,
and the cook we're to your grand
mother in the last war. All, the Cal
lands had many servants then!"
This isn't like the old war. This
place will be shelled. enfiladed And
you two" the captain protested des-
perately.
Il became Galland when mar
ried," said Mrs Galland. "and the
Galland women have always remained
with their property in time of war.
Naturally / shall remain!"
Miss Galland, IL was you-your in
fuence ! was counting on to" The
captain turned to Marta in a final ap.
peal,
Mrs. Galfand was watching her
daughters face intently.
we stayl" replied Marta, and the
captain saw in the depths Of her eyes,
a cold blue.black, that further argu-
ment was useless,
Now came the INeep OF rising roar
from the sky with the command to at
tention OF the rush OF fast express
train past n country railway station.
Two Gray dirigibles with their escort
OF aeroplanes we're bearing toward the
pass over the pass road The auto
matte and the rinemen in the tower
banged away TO no purpose. but the
central sections OF the envelope OF the
rear dirigible had been torn i'm shreds:
It was buckling Clouds Of blue shrap-
mel smoke broke around it's gondola.
A number OF ield-guns joined forces
with battery OF high-angle guns in
havoc that left 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 81 the
Grays.
The Gray dirigibles, stern on. we're
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
focks OF soaring birds apparently un-
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 second. she thought before
she withdrew them in yexation--
hadn't she promised herself not TO DO
cowardly ITO 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 sawl" ex-
claimed the engineer captain. his
words bubbling with the Joy OF water
in the sunlight AS | thought" he
continued In professional enthusiasm
and discrimination.
With high-power binoculars glued 20
his eyes he then turned to see II the
! faint brown line OF Dellarme's men
were going. 70 hoid or break u i