The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1914-10-09

A man playing deaf; a secret tele-
phone installed on our premises with
out our consent-this is all know SO
far" said Marta, seated opposite
Lanstron at one end of the circular
seat In the arbor Of Mercury.
OF course, with our 5000, 900
against their 100000, the Grays will
take the offensive" he said. For us,
the defensive. La Tir is in an angle.
1t does not belong In the permanent
tactical line of our defenses. Never
theless, there will be hard fighting
here. The Browns will fall back step
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 or any movement except q
quick, nervous gesture Of her free
hand. What you mean is that you
will kill as many as possible of the
Grays, isn't is? And If you could kill
five for every man you lost, that would
De splendid, wouldn't lit?
Il don't think of 1t as splendid. There
Is nothing splendid about war;" he OBJ
jected; mot to me, Marta"
And after you have made them pay
i've to one or ten tc one in human
lives for the tangent, what them Go
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 II war came
This corroborated Lanstron's informa
ton. One side wanted spy in the
garden; the other q general in the
house. Was she expected to make 9
choice? He had ceased to be Lanny
He personified war. Westerling per
soniied war. Il suppose you have
spies under his very nose-in his very
staff of1ices?" she asked.
And probably he has in ours" sale
Lanstron, though we do our best Il
prevent it."
What a pretty example Of trus
among civilized nations!" she ex
claimed. you say that Westerling
who commands the killing on his side
will be in no danger. And, Lanny, ar,
you person of such distinction In tn,
business of killing that you also will
be out of danger?"
She did not see, as her eyes pouret
her hot indignation into his, that hi
manned hand was twitching or hoy
he bit his lips and flushed before he re
piled:
Each one goes where he is sem
staff. Only in this way can you hav
that solidarity, that harmonious eff
cheney which means victory"
"An autocracy, a tyranny over tn
lives of all the adult males In countrie
that boast of the ballot and self-go7
erning institutional" she put in.
But | hope" he went on, with tn
quickening pulse and eager smile ths
used to greet call from Teller to "sC
things going" in their cadet days, "tht
l may take out squadron of dirigible
After all this spy business, that woul
be to my TASTE"
"And If you caught a regiment
close formation with shower
bombs, that would be positively hea
emily, wouldn't itR" She bent near
to him, her eyes flaming demand ar
satire.
; mo! War-necessary, horrible, he
ishl" he replied. Something in b
. seemed to draw out the brutal tru
she had asked for in place Of euphol
GUS terms.
3 when l became chief of intelligen
/ found that an underground wire hi
been laid to the castle from the Eigh
division headquarters, which will
our general staff headquarters in til
= of war. The purpose was the same
now, but abandoned as chimerical.
d that was necessary was to install t
" instrument, which Teller did. l, t
saw the plan as chimerical, yet it W
Or chance-the one out OF thousal
IN If 1t should happen to succeed
should play with our cards conceal
ia and theirs on the table.
IS, 1.-THE rest of Feller's part you hs
nj guessed already" he concluded. "Y
III can see how q deaf, inoffensive
m gardener would hardly seem to KIN
40 Gray soldier from a Brown; how
Id might no more occur to Westerling
W. send him away than the family dog
" cat; how he might retain his quart
,u- in the tower; how he could judge
atmosphere Of the STAFF. whether ella
to or depressed, pick up scraps of COW
So sation, and, as trained officer, KIN
he the value of what he heard and rep
- a. o,,or Tho nhona To parfou'a he