The Fayette falcon. (Somerville, Tenn.) 190?-current, 1915-06-11
CHAPTER xxI-cOntInusd.

I'VE are going on, l and my guns,
on to the best yet -on In the pursuit!
Nothing can stop usI We shall hit the
0rays so fast and hard that they can
never get their machine in order again.
God bless you'll Everything that is fine
in me will always think finely Of you!
You and Lanny-two fixed stars for
mel"
TRULY" She was radiant. "TrulyH"
she asked wistfully.
"Yes, yes-a yes as real as the
Gunsl"
"Then It helpsl Oh, how II helpsl"
Ahe murmured almost inaudlbly.
"Good-byl God bless you'll" he cried
a. he started to 60, adding over his
shoulder merrily: "I'll send you pic
ture postcard from the Grays' capital
OF my guns parked in the palace
square"
She watched him leap the garden
wall as lightly rs he had come and
gallop away, an impersonation Of the
gay, adventurous spirit of war, count
eng death and wounds and hardship as
De delights of the gamble. Yea, he
Would follow the Grays, throwing
shells in the irresponsible Joy Of toss
ing confetti in q carnival. Pursuit.
Was Feller's the sentiment Of the
armyf Were the Browns not to stop
at the frontier? We're they to change
their song to, Now we have ours we
ehall take some of theirs?" The
thought was fresh fuel to the live Goals
that still remained under the ashes.
A brigade commander and some Of
his staff-officers near by formed a
group with faces intent around an OPP
orator who was attaching his instru-
ment to fleld-wire that had Just been
reeled over the hedge. Marta moved
toward them, but paused on hearing an
outburst OF jubilant ordinations;
"A hundred thousand prisonersl"
"And FIVE hundred gunsl"
Were coming In on their frontier
all along the Incl"
ITS incrediblel"
but the word is oflcial-it's right"
From mouth to mouth-a hundred
thousand prisoners, FIVE hundred guns
the news was passed In the garden.
Eyes dull with fatigue began flashing
as the soldiers broke into a cheer that
was not led, a cheer unlike any Marta
had heard before. Il had the high
notes of men who were weary. of a ter
rible exultation, of spirit stronger than
tired legs and as yet unsatisfied. Other
EXPLANATIONS from both officers and
men expressed hunger whetted by
the taste Of one days victory.
"We1l go onl"
We'll make peace In their capital"
"And with an indemnity that will
Atagger the worldl"
Nothing is impossible with Lam
stron. How he has worked It out
baited them to their own destructionl"
"A frontier of our own choosing!"
ION the next range. We will keep
all that stretch of plain there!"
And the river, tool"
They shall pay-pay for attacking
nsi"
Pay, pay for the drudgery. the sleep
less nights, the dead and the wounded
for our dead and woundedl No mat
ter about theirsl The officers were too
Intent In their citation to observe a
young woman. standing quite still. her
lips q thin line and q deep blaze In
her eyes as she looked this way and
that at the field Of faces, seeking some
dissentient. some partisan Of the right.
She was seeing the truth now; the
cold truth, the old truth to which she
had been untrue VIXEN she took Eel
ler's place. There could be no choice
OF sides In war unless you believed In
war. One who fought for peace must
take up arms against all armies Her
part as q spy appeared to her clad in
q new kind OF shame; the desertlon OF
her principles.
Nor did the officers observe a man OF
thirty-hve. wearing the. cords Of the
staff and . generals stars, coming
around the corner Of the house. Mar
ta's feverish, rowing glance had noted
him directly he was In sight his face
seemed 10 be In keeping with the
ether faces, In the ardor Of hunt IN
finished; hand In blouse pocket. bis
bearing little too easy to be convsn
tionaIiy miiitary-the same Lanny.
She was dimly conscious OF surprise
not TO find him changed. perhaps be
cause he was unaccompanied By q re
tinue or any other symbol OF his power
He might have been coming to call or
q Sunday afternoon. In that frs
glimpse Il vas difficult to think Of
him as the commander Of an army. But
that he was, she must not forget She
was shaken and trembling; and {
mist rose before her. so that she did
not see him clearly when. with ges
ture OF relief, be saw her.
'Tanstronl" exclaimed an officer II
the hrst explosive breath OF amaze
ment on recognizing him; then added
-His ExceIlsncy. the chief Of staifl"
Bat the one word. Lanstron. hai
besn enough to thru an the Officer
inta siisnce and rsmrod saluteA Mart