Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1915-05-05
CHAPTER xxII-Continued.

Miss Galland," Lanstron remarked ten
eatively. He waited for a reply. II
was Apparent that he was laying a
founCation before he went any fur
1her
Certainly" said the vice-chief.
And you!" put in another officer.
vb5ch brought chorus OF assent
No. not I-only these two!" Ian
sGon replied. "Or, l, too. IL you pre-
fsr. IL little matters. The thing is
bat j am under promise TO both.
vhich l shall respect He organized
Cpd labored for the same purpose that
eAe played the spy. When we sent
The troops forward In a counterattack
and pursuit to clear our soil OF the
srays; when ! stopped them at the
Dontier-both were according to Par
lows plan. He had a plan aud 4
hream. this wonderful old man who
made us all seem primary pupils in
the art of war"
Could ii be that terrible Partow. n
stroke of whose pencil had made the
Galland house an inferno? Marta
wondered as Lanstron read his mes
eage-the message out of the real
heart OF the man, throbbing with the
power OF his great brain. His plan
vas to hold the Grays to sta emate:
20 force them to desist after they had
battered their battaliors TO pieces
against the Brown Notifications. His
dream was the thing that had hap
penedEthat an opportunity would
come to pursue a broken machine In
a bold stroke OF the offensive
i would want to be hero Of our
people for only one aim. TO be able
TO stop our army at the frontier" he
had written. Then they might drive
me forth heaped with oblouuy. IL they
chose. ! should like to see the Grays
demoralized. beaten, ready to sue for
peace, the better to prove my point
mat we should ask only for what is
ours and that our strength was only
Tor the purpose of holding what is
ours. Then we should lay I'D no leg
acy of revenge in their hearts. They
could never have cause to attack
again Civilization would have adj
vanced another step"
Lanstron continued to read to the
amazed STAFF, for Partow's message
had looked far into the future. Their
there was a p. S., written after the
war had begun, on the evening of the
day that Marta had gone from tea on
the veranda with Westerling to the
telephone. in the impulse OF her new
purpose.
Il begin to believe in that dream"
he wrote 81 begin to believe that the
chance for the offensive will come
now that my colleague Miss Galland.
In the name of peace has turned Drac-
teal. There is nothing like mixing
little practice in your dreams while
the world is still we'll this side of
Utopia, as the head on my old behe-
moth Of a body well knows. She had
the right idea with her school. The
oath so completely expressed nv
ideas-the result of all my thinking
that ] had twinge of literary zeal
ousy. My boy. il you do reach the
frontier. in pursuit Of a broken army
and you do not keep faith with NV
dream and with her ideals. then Won
will get a lesson that will last You for.
ever at the foot Of the Gray range
But ] do not think so badly as that Of
you or Of my judgment OF men"
"Lanny! Lanny!'
The dignity Of stan council could
not restrain Marta Her emotion must
have action. She sprang 10 his side
and seized his hand her exultation
mixed with peniterce over the wav
she had wronged him and Partou
Their self-contaiued purpose had been
the same as hers and they had vorked
with a soldiers fOrtitude. while sba
had worked with Whims and impulses
She bent over him with gratitude and
praise and plea for forgiveness iu
Der eyes, submerging the thing which
ne sought IN them He flushed boz.
ishly I'm happy embarrassment. inca.
pablo Of word for an instant. and
silently the staff looked on
And agree with Parto1. % T.ars,-o,
went on, that we cannot take +te
range. The Grays suu have numbers
equal 20 ours. u is they moss u,ro
will be singing God with gsi with
their backs against the wall WIN
PartOw's goes my own appeal fo the
sJIny and the nation; and shall keen
faith with Partow, with Miss gaHard
and with my own ideas. N tGe govern
ment orders the army to advance. b.
resigning as chief Of staff my work
6uished"
Westerliag and his aide ard valet
fuqulring their way as stra1zcre. found
the new staff headquarters of the
Gays ostabIishea Ga an army building
where BoucbarC mad been assigned 10
trivial duties. back OF The Gray ranso
AS their former chief entered a room,
IN the disorder OF maps and packing
cases, the stan-oiTcers rose from their
work 20 stand at salute like stone inn
ages, IN respect 10 a field marshaIe
rank There was no word OF greeting