Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1915-01-13

! rupt change or tone. But first let US
leave Feller's quarters. We are in
| truders here"
/ 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 erd of the circular
| seat in the arbor OF Mercury.
"Of course, with our 1900. 600
against their 5.OOO,0 200, the Grays will
take the offensive" he said. For us.
the defensive. La Tir is in an angle.
IL does not belong In the permar emit
tactical line OF our defenses Never
theless. there will be hard lighting
here. TIE Browns will fall back step
! by step, aud 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 sold without lifting her
lashes or any movement except a
quick. nervous gesture OF her free
hand. What you mean is that you
VIII Kill as many as possible OF the
Grays. isn't is? And If you could kill
hve for every man you lost, that would
be splendid, wouldn't it?"
Il don't think of ii as splendid. There
Is nothing splendid about war" he OBJ
jected; mot to me. Marta"
And after you have made them pay
nVe to one or ten to one In human
lives for the tangent, what then? Go
on. l want to look at war face to face
Tree OF the will-o,the-wisp glamour that
draws on soldiers"
We 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 it his headquarters"
Our house Westerling's headuuar-
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 a
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 offices?" she asked.
And probably he has in ours" said
Lanstron, though we do our best to
prevent it,
What pretty example of trust
among civilized nations!" she ex
claimed. You say that Westerling.
who commands the killing on his side.
viii 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 his
manned hand was twitching or how
he bit his lips and flushed before he re-
Piled:
Each one goes where he is 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 institutions! she put in.
But ! hope" he went on, with the
quickening pulse and eager smile that
used 70 greet a call from Teller to set
things going" in their cadet days. that
| may take out squadron OF dirigibles
After all this spy business, that would
be to my taste"
And II you caught regiment in
close formation with a shower OF
bombs, that would be positively heav.
emily wouldn't it?" She bent nearer
to him. her eyes flaming demand and
satire
NO. necessary, horrible. hell
ishi" he replied Something in her
seemed 20 draw out the brutal truth
she had asked for in place OF euphoni.
Gus terms.
When became chief of intelligence
] found that an underground wire had
been laid TO the castle from the Eighth
division headquarters, which will be
Our general staff Headquarters in time
of war The purpose was the same As
now. but abandoned as chimerlcaI All
that vac necessary was 20 install the
instrument. which Teller did l. too.
sa" the plan as chimerical. yet Il was
chance the one out OF a thousand
It should happen to succeed we
should play with our cards concealed
and theirs on the table.
The rest OF Fcller's part you have
guessed already he concluded You
can see how a deaf. inonensive old
gardener would hardly seem to know
Gray soldier from a Brown how E,
might no more occur 20 WesterIing -
send him away than the family dog or
cat. how be might retain his quarters
in the tower: how he could Judge the
atmosphere Of tho stan. whether elaied
or depressed. pick up scraps OF CONVEX.
sation and, as a trained officer. know
the value OF what he heard and renort