The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1915-03-06

Lanstrun started toward the steps
that Marta was ascending. She moved
le!surely. yet with a certain sprtngy
energy that suggested that she might
have come on the run without being
out Of breath or seeming to have made
an effort.
Hello. stranger" she called as she
saw him. and quickened her pace.
Hello. pedagogue!" he responded.
As they shook hands they swung
their arms back and forth like q pair
Of romping children for = moment.
We had q grand session OF the
school this morning. the largest class
eyer!" she said. And the points we
scored on you soldiers! You'll fnd
disarmament already in progress when
you return to headquarters. We're ir-
resistible. or at least" she added. with
q fash of intensity. "wa're going to be
some day"
so you put on your arpaint!"
1T must be the pollen from the hy-
dranReas." She nicked her handker-
chief from her belt and passed It to
him. Show that you know how to be
useful"
He performed the task with delib-
crate care.
Heavens, You even have some on
your ear and some on your hair; but
III leave it on your hair: it's rather be-
coming. There you are." he concluded.
.Off my hair. tool"
Very we'll. l always obey orders"
Il oughtn't to have asked you to do
it at all." she exclaimed with a sud
up to the house. But habit OF
friendship. habit of liking to believe
in ones friends. was uppermost
forgot | oughtn't even to have shaken
hands with you!"
Marta, What now. Marta?" he
asked
He had known her In reproach, in
anger, in laughing mockery, In mill
tant seriousness. but never before like
this. The pain and indignation in her
eyes came not from the sheer hurt of
wound but from the hurt of its
source. 1t was as il he had learned by
the signal of its loss that he had a
deeper hold on her than he had real
lied
Yes, ! have a bone to pick with
you," she said, recovering a grim sort
OF fellowship. "A big bone! If you're
half friend you'll give me the very
marrow OF it."
Il am ready!" he answered more pa
thetically than philosophically.
There's not time now; after lunch
con. when mother is taking her nap"
she concluded as they came to the last
step and saw Mrs. Galland on the
veranda
Alter luncheon Mrs Galland kept bat
Ting with her mods until nature was
victorious and she fell fast asleep.
Marta, grown restless with impatience,
suggested to Lanstron that they stroll
in the garden. and they took the path
past the house toward the castle
tower. stopping in an arbor with high
hedges on either side around statue
Of Mercury
Now" exclaimed Marta narrowly
1T was you. Lanny, who recommend
ed Feller to US as a gardener, compe
tent though deaf! have proved him
to be a man of most sensitive hearing
didn't let him know that he was dis
covered. You brought him here-you.
Lanny, you are the one to explain
True, he is not deaf" Lanstron re-
piled.
He is spy?" she asked
Yes, a spy. You can put things in
bright light, Marta!" He found words
coming with difficulty in face OF the
pain and disillusion of her set look
Using some man as a pawn; setting
him as spy in the garden where you
have been the welcome friend!" she
exclaimed. "A spy on what-on my
mother. on Minna. on me. on the how-
ers. as a part of this monstrous game
of trickery and lies that you are play
ing?"
There was no trace of anger in her
tone. 1t was that Of one mortally hurt.
Anger would have been easier to bear
than the measuring, penetrating won
der that found him guilty OF such a
horrible part. Those eyes would have
confused Partow himself with the
steady. yelling intensity OF their gaze.
She did not see how his left hand was
twitching and how he stilled It's move
, ment by pressing 1t against the bench.
You will take Feller with you when
you go!" she said, rising"
Lanstron dropped his head in kind
of shaking throb Of his whole body and