The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-10-07

 ening, all embracing, continuing sound. Every other light had gone out about her, and against this glare hung slant ing walls, pirouetting pillars, project ing fragments of cornices and a disor- derly flight of huge angular sheets of glass.
 She had an impression of great ball | of crimson-purple fire like maddened living thing that seemed to be whirling about very rapidly amidst chaos of falling masonry that seemed to be at- E tacking the earth fnriousIy, that seem ed to be burrowing Into it like blaz- ing rabbit
 She had all the sensations of waking up out of dream. FNx
 She found she was lying face down wand on bank of mold and that Iit- tie rivuIet of hot water was running over one foot. She tried to raiss her self and found her leg Nas very pain full. She was not clear whether lt was night or day nor where she was. She made a second effort, wincing and grooming, and turned over and got into sitting position and looked aboGIt her.
 Everything seemed very silent She was. in fact, in the midst of a vast uI- roar, but she did not realize this be- cause her hearing had been destroyed.
 At first she could not join on whas she saw to any previous experience
 She seemed to be in strange world, a soundless, rainous world a world ot heaped broken things And it was lit and somehow this was more familiar to her mind than any other fact about her-by dickering. purplish crima0nl light Then close to her. rising above a confusion Of debris, she recognized the Trocaderc. 1t was changed; some thing had gone from it, but its out line was unmistakable. 1t stood out against streaming. whtrling uprush of red lit steam, and with that she re called Paris and the Seine and the warm, overcast evening and the bean tifuI luminous organization of the war control
 She drew herself a little way up the slope of earth on which she lay and examined her surroundings with an increasing understanding
 The earth on which she was lying projected like a cape into the EiTer. Quite close to her was a bF1mming lake of damned up water, from which these warm rivuIets and tor rents were trickling. Wisps of vapor came into circiing existence foot or so from its mirror like surface. Near at hand and reflected exactly in the water was the upper part of a fa- niliar looking stone pillar. On the side of her away from the water tkg heaped ruins rose. steeply in a cohfEig- ed slope up to a gIaring crest AbOEs and refectiug this glare lowered pic lowed masses of steam rolling swiftly upward to the zenith. It was from this crest that the Iivid glow that Iit the world about her proceeded, and slowly her mind connected this mound with the vanished buildings of the war control.
 ''AaisE. she whispered and remained with staring eyes quite motionIess for a time. crouching close to the warm earth.
 Then presently this dim. broken hus man thing began to look about 1t again. She began to feel the need of fellow ship She wanted to question, wanted to speak, wanted to relate her eEpe- rlence. And her foot hurt her atrO- cfously. There ought to be an anabu- lance. A little gust of queEuious crit icisms blew across her mind. This surely was q disaster! Always after a disaster there should be ambulsncea and helpers moving about
 She craned her head. There wan something there But everything vas so still!
 s'Monsiesrr' she cried. Her earss she noted, felt queer, and she began to suspect that all was not well with them
 It was terribly lonely in this chaotic strangeness. and perhaps this man-iG 1t was a man, fot'it was 1eff5eult t6 see might for all his stiffness be merely insensible. He might have been stun-H ned. #
 The Ieaping glare beyond sent faS into his corner and for moment every little detail was distinct It was Mar sha1 Dubois. He was lying against s huge slab of the war map. To tt thera stuck and from it there dangleG little wooden objects, symbols of infantry and cavalry and guns as they were disposed upon the frontier. He did not seem to be aware of this at his back, he had an effect of inattention, not indifferent attention, but as if he were thinking.
 She could not see the eyes beneath. his shaggy brows, but it was evident he frowned. He frowned slightly. He had an air of not wanting to be dis turbed. His face still bore that expres- sion of assured confidence, that eoa- viction that if things were left to him France might obey in security
 She did not cry out to him again, but , she crept little nearer A strange surmise made her eyes dilate Vith 3 painful wrench, she pulled herse1f 1p so that she could see completely over the intervening Jumps of smashed up masonry. Her hand touched some thing wet, and after one convuisivs movement she became rigid.
 tTo Be continued.)