Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1914-11-12

gardener. Marta tails Laastrem that she
believes Teller TO be . ~. LAnstron
sO9fsAses H.A trvs. -" =
You need not use 'suphonious
terms" she said without Hiding her
lashes or any movement except .
quick, nervous gesture Of her free
hand. what you mean II that you
win kill 90 many 40 possible OF tho
Grays, isn't 10? And II you could ldll
five for avery man you lost. that would
be splendid, wouldn't it,"
II don't think Of 1t as splendid. There
10 nothing splendid about war;" he OBJ
jected; mot to me, Marta"
And after you have made them pay
i've to one or ten to n In human
lives for the tangent, what thenf Go
UnI. / want to look at war face toface.
free Of the will-o.the-wisp glamour that
draws on soldiers"
1--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 VIII
no longer be in danger, and we happen
to know that Westerling means to
make 1t HE headquarters"
"Our house Westerling's headQuar-
ters!" she repeated. With q start that
brought her up erect, alert, challeng-
ing, her lashes nickefing. she recalled
that Westerling had said at parting
that he should see her IL war came
This c~orroborated LanstroA's informa-
tion. One side wanted q Spy In the
garden; the other q general In the
house. Was she expected TO make q
choice? He had ceased to be Lanny.
He personined war. Weeterling per
sodiAed war. II suppose you have
spies under his very nose-in bis very
star oficesf" she asked. Il. I.
.And probably he has in ours" said
Lanstron, though. we do our best to
prevent IT,"
what o pretty example pf trust
among civilized ~nationSl" she ex'
claimed. "You say that WesterlinG.
who commands the killing on his side.
will be In no danger. And. LAnny. are
you q person Of such distinction in the
business Of killing that you also will
be out Of danger" :"
She did not see, as hes. eyes poured
her hot indignation into his, that his
MANNED hand was twitchingv or how
he bit his lips and flushed before he re-
piled: yrt..aaf
Each one goes where he Is sent
link by link, down from the Thief OF
staff. Only in this way can. you have
that solidarity, that harmonious ett
cheney which means victory"
IAN autocracy, a tyranny over the
lives of all the adult males In countries
that boast Of the ballot and seif-gov'
erning institutional" she put In.
but l hope," he went on, with the
Quickening pulse and eager smile thai
used to greet a call from Teller to "set
things going in their cadet days, "that
l may take out a squadron Of dirlgibles
After all this spy business, that woult
be to my taste.
And If you caught q regiment II
close formation with a shower o
bombs, that would be positively heav
emily, wouldn't it?" She bent neare
to him, her eyes flaming demand ant
satire.
mo! War-necessary, horrible, he'll
ish!" he replied. Something in he
seemed to draw out the brutal trutl
she had asked for In place b f,euphon
Gus terms.
when / became chief Of intelligenc
i found that an underground wire ha
been laid to the. castle from che. Eight
division Headquarters. which will b
our general stan headquarters In tim
81 war. The purpose was the same q
now, but abandoned as chlmerical. "A
that was necessary was to install tn
instrumeRt. which Teller did. to
saw the plan as chirhericaI. yet II wa
4 chance-the one ont Of thounan
IL 1t should happen 20 Bupraed y
should play With our cards eonceAlS
and theirs on the table.
araat of -Eallar'a paEtuE0R hRl
guessed already be concluded w
unn~aeashaW aaf inRoengine o
tl0snef would 1Hy
3 Gray soldier from q Brown: how
might no more occur to Westerling
send him away than the family dog
cat; how he might retain his quartz
81 the tower how be could Judge 4
atmosphere Of The stan. whether elatl
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