Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1915-04-21
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Minna authoritatively.
Marta would not have the food
brought TO her. She insisted that she
was strong enough to accompany
Mlnna to The tower While Mlnna
urged mouthfuls down Marta's dry
throat as she sat outside the door OF
the sitting-room with her mother a
number Of weary dust-streaked faces.
with feverish energy in their eyes.
peered over the hedge that bounded
the garden on the side toward the pass
These scout skirmishers of Stransky's
men OF the sd Regiment of the
Browns made reckoning gestures as
to crowd. before they sprang over
the hedge and ran swiftly. watchfully.
toward the linden stumps, closely fol-
| lowed by their comrades. Soon the
whole garden was overrun by the lean,
busti,ssslike fellows, their glances all
ferretiike 10 the front
Look, Minna'" exclaimed Marta.
The giant who carried the old man In
pickabaCk the first night of the war;"
Minna was flushing, but the flush
dissipated and she drew up her chin
when Stransky. looking around. recog-
-
wave of his hand.
See, he's a captain and he wears
an iron cross!" said Marta as Stransky
| fastened toward them.
HE acts like it," assented Minna
grudgingly.
Eager, leviathan, his cap doffed with
sweeping gesture as he made low
bow, Stransky was the very spirit ~
retributive victory returning to claim
the ground that he had lost.
We'll, this is like getting home
| again!" he cried.
so / see!" said Minna equivocaTly.
Stransky drew his eyes together
| sighting them on the bridge OF his nose
thoughtfully at this dubious reception
Il came back for the chance to kiss
good woman's hand" he observed
with a profound awkwardness and
looking at Minna's hand. Your
hand!" he added, the cast in his eyes
| Strengthening as he looked directly at
her appealingly.
She extended her finger-tips and he
pressed his lips to them
Il kept seeing the way you looked
when YOU belted me one in the face"
he went on, and knocked any an
archism out OF me that was left after
| the shell burst I kept seeing your
face in my last glimpse when the
Grays made me run for it from your
kitchen door before had half a chance
for the grafton crying for voice. You
were in my dreams, You were in bat
tie with mel"
This sounds like a disordered
mind" observed Minna. I've heard
men talk that way before"
oh, have talked that way TO other
women myself" said Stransky
Yes" said Minna bitterly His can.
dor was rather unexpected.
Il have talked to others in passing
on the high road" he continued. But
never after a woman had struck me in
the face. That blow sank deep-deep
deep as what Lanstron said when |
revolted on the march. ] say it to you
with this"-he touched the erosion
my breast. And I'm not going to give
you up. It's a big world There's
room in it for place for you after the
war is over and I'm going to make the
place. Good-by till I'm Blackjack to
stay Good-by, little daughterl" he
| added with wave of his hand to Clar-
issa as he turned to 60 Maybe we
| shall have our own automobile some
dag. It's no stranger than what's been
happening to me since the war began"
IF you don't marry him, Ninna, III
I'll Mrs. Galland could not find
words for the fearful thing that she
would do
Marry him! l have only met him
three times for about three minutes
each time!" protested Minna. She
was as rosy as girl and in her conf
sion she busted herself relying the rib
bon on Clarissa Eileen's hair. ne
called you little daughter!" she said
softly to the child as she withdrew INFO
the tower.
Marta remained in the chair by tire
doorway OF the tower, weak and list
less. Now her lashes were closed:
again they opened slightly as her gazs
roVed the semicircle of the horizon. A
mounted officer and his orderly gallon
| Ing across the fields to the pass road
caught her desultory attention and
| held II, for they formed the most i'm.
petuous object on the landscape. WheE
the officer alighted at the foot OF the
garden and tossed his reins to the or.
DERBY. she detected something familiar
about him. He leaped the garden wall
at "A bound and. half running, came to-
ward the tower. Not until he lifted his
cap and waved it did she associate THE
1.-THE, dapper artillerist with a stopped
old gardener in blue blouse and torn
| straw hat who had once shufled among
the flowers at her service.
Hello! Hello" he shouted in
clarion greeting at sight OF her. Hello,
my successori"
Only in the Wilderness OF his ha.r
was he like the old Teller. ffis tone.
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