The Medina sentinel. [volume] (Medina, Ohio) 1888-1961, 1914-12-04
CHAPTER Kill.


IOup MdILd-yOu arc SClll LueT0!
Lanstron exclaimed in alarm when he
heard her voice over the tunnel tele-
phone. But safe!" he added in re-
lief. "Thank God for that! It's
mighty load off my mind. And your
mother?"
Safe, too"
well, you're through the worst of
it. There won't be any more fighting
around the house, and certainly West
erling will be courteous. But where
is Gustave?"
"Gone!"
"Gone!" he repeated dismally.
''Wait until you hear how he went,"
Marta said. With all the vividness of
her impressions. a partisan for the mo-
ment Of him and Dellarme, she
sketched Feller's part with the auto
matiS.
AS he listened. Lanstron's spirit was
twenty again.
II can see him." he said. 1T was a
full breath of fresh air to the lungs
of suffocating man. /"
Marta was of in interruption in the
full tide Of an appeal.
"You muet-I promised-you must
let him have the uniform again!" she
begged. "You must let him keep his
automatic. To take 1t away woulc
be like separating mother and child;
like separating Minna from Clarissa
Eileen"
Better than an automatic-a bat
terry of guns!" replied Lanstron. "This
is where I will use any influence I
have with Partow for all it is worth
Yes, and he shall have the iron cross
It Is for such deeds as his that the
iron cross was meant"
THANK you she said. TITS worth
something to maks man as happy as
you will make him. Yes, you are real
flesh and blood to do this, Lanny."
Her point won with surprising ease,
when she had feared that military
form and law could not be circum-
vented, she leaned against the wall
in reaction. For twenty-four hours
she had been without sleep. The in
terest of her appeal for Feller had
kept up her strength after the excite
ment of the fight for the redoubt was
over. Now there seemed nothing left
to do. Z. .fE III.
"That's fine Of you, Lanny!" she
said. you've taken 1t like a good
stole, this loss of your thousandth
chance. You really believed in it,
didn't your"
forgotten already, like the many
other thousandth chances that have
failed" he replied cheerfully. "One
of the virtues of Partow's steel au-
tomatons is that. being fearless as
well as passionless, they never CT!
over split milk. And now," he wen,
en- soberly. I'VE must be saying good
by"
"Good-by, Lanny? Why, what do
you mean" She was startled.
IT'LL the war is over" he said, land
longer than that, perhaps, II La Tir
remains in Gray territory"
"You speak as If you thought you
were going to lose!"
mot while many Of our soldiers are
alive, If they continue to show the
spirit that they have shown so far;
not unless two men can crush one
man in the automatic.gun-recoil age
But La Tir is in tangent and already
in the Grays' possession, while we act
on the defensive. So l should hardly
be flying over your garden again"
"But there's the telephone. Lanny,
and here we are talking over it this
very minute!" she expostulated.
"You must remove It," he said. ''If
the Grays should discover 1t they
might form suspicion that would put
you in an unpleasant position"
The telephone had become almost a
familiar institution in her thoughts.
Its secret had something of the fasci-
nation for her Of magic.
'Nonsense!" she exclaimed. II am
going to be very lonely. I want to
learn how Feller is doing-I want to
chat with you. So decide not to let
1t be taken out. And, you see, have
the tactical situation, as you soldiers
call II. all in my favor. The work
Of removal must be done at my end
Of the line. You're quite helpless to
enforce your wishes. And, Lanny, II
/ ring the bell youIl answer, won't
your"
II couldn't help It'll" he replied.
Until then! You've been fine about
everything today!"
until then!"
When Marta left the tower che knew
only that she was weary with the
mind-weariness, the body-weariness,
the nerve-weariness Of spectator who
has shared the emotion of every actor
in drama Of death and finds the ex'
element that has kept her tenee no
longer q sustaining force.
AS she went along the path, steps
uncertain from sheer fatigue, her sen
sihilities livened again at the sight Of
Q picture. War; personal war; In the
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