The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1914-12-12

by step, and we mean, with relatively
small cost to ourselves, to make the
Grays pay heavy price for each step
Just as heavy as we can.
you need not use euphonious
terms" she said without lifting her
lashes OF any movement except
| quick, nervous gesture OF her Tree
hand. What you mean is that you
| will kill as many as possible OF the
Grays, isn't is? And II you could XIII
FIVE for every man you lost, that would
be splendid, wouldn't it?"
81 don't think of 1t as splendid. There
is nothing splendid about war; ne Cd
jected; mot to me, Marta"
And after you have made them pay
five to one or ten to one IN human
lives for the tangent, what then! 10
on! want to look at war face to face
free of the will-o -the-wisp glamour that
draws on soldiers"
I'VE 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 Will
no longer be in danger, and we happen
to know that Westerling means to
make 1t his headquarters"
Our house Westerling's headQuar-
ters!" she repeated. With a start that
brought her up erect, alert, challeng-
! ing, her lashes Pickering. she recalled
that Westerling had said at parting
that he should see her IL war came.
This corroborated Lanstron's informa-
ton. One side wanted a spy in the
garden; the other a general In the
house. Was she expected to make
choice? He had ceased to be Lanny.
He personified war. Westerling per-
sonified war. Il suppose you have
spies under his very nose-in his very
staff off1ces?" she asked.
And probably he has in ours" said
Lanstron, though we do our best to
prevent it,"
What a pretty example of trust
among civilized nations!" she ex,
claimed. You say that Westerling,
who commands the killing on his side,
will be in no danger. And, Lanny, are
you a person of such distinction in the
business of killing that you also will
be out of danger?"
She did not see, as her eyes poured
her hot indignation into his, that HE
manned hand was twitching or how
he bit his lips and flushed before he re
piled:
Each one goes where he ia sent
link by link, down from the chief Of
staff. Only in this way can you have
that solidarity, that harmonious eff
cheney which means victory"
AN autocracy, a tyranny over the
lives Of all the adult males in countries
that boast Of the ballot and self-gov
erning institutional" she put in.
But / hope" he went on, with the
quickening pulse and eager smile thai
used to greet call from Teller to "se
things going" in their cadet days, "tha
may take out a squadron of dirigibles
After all this spy business, that woult
be to my taste"
And IL you caught a regiment II
close formation with q shower O
bombs, that would be positively heav
, emily, wouldn't it?" She bent nearer
, to him, her eyes flaming demand ant
, satire.
, mo! War-necessary, horrible. hell
ish!" he replied. Something in he
seemed to draw out the brutal trutl
/, she had asked for in place of euphoni
, Gus terms.
when became chief of intelligence
l found that an underground wire ha,
been laid to the castle from the Eight
n division headquarters, which will b
\ our general staff headquarters in tim
< of war. The purpose was the same a
4 now, but abandoned as chimerical. Al
v that was necessary was to install tn
instrument, which Teller did. l. toe
r saw the plan as chimerical, yet it wa
n a chance-the one out of Thousand
II it should happen to succeed W
q should play with our cards conceale
, and theirs on the table.
II "The rest of Feller's part you hay
b guessed already" he concluded. "Yo
n can see how a deaf, inoffensive oil
O gardener would hardly seem to kno,
d Gray soldier from Brown: how
'. might no more occur to Westerling I
v send him away than the family dog G
J. cat; how he might retain his quarter
in the tower; how he could Judge tn
o atmosphere of the staff, whether elate
IS or depressed, pick up scraps of conve
e sation, and, as trained officer, kno
n the value of what he heard and repo,
If 1t over the phone to Partow's hea,
Y. quarters"
But what about the aeroplanes,
is she asked. 81 thought you were to d
It pend on them for scouting"
re I'VE shall use them, but they a,
e, the least tried of all the new r
Of sources" he said. "A Gray aeroplar
le may cut a Brown aeroplane down b
Is fore it returns with the news we wan
re At most, when the aviator may descer
low enough for accurate Observable
he can see only what is actually beir
IL done. Teller would know Westerling
re plans before they were even In Il
n first steps of execution. This"-pla
ing the thought happily-"this wou
N be the ideal arrangement, while o,
planes and dirigibles were kept oy,
Is our lines to strike down theirs. An
u Marta, that Is ALL" he concluded