The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-10-21
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 "But she'll fool 'em. She has poison with her. She'll kill herself before''-
 For the thousondth time Jim read and reread the letter which Mart had left with him when the boy was called Agnes told that she was learning army nursing and was coming cast to service as soon as she could. Had she cc:1e east already, and if she had where was she? Might she be among the women captivcs in those H~-hted houses, surrounded by the regents cavalrymen, where the enemy's off, ccrs drank and sang and reveled while the American refugees stole si- lently past in the dark, crouching low over the snow?
 A cry-a weak little cry of child came to him. Jim did not try to rise; he burrowed under the snow. A wo- man was lying there. She was frozen There could be no doubt of that; but, bundled within her arms and wound within a blanket was baby, who cried weakly once moro as Jim lifted tho bundle. He got to his feet again ard stumbled to a house and entered the kitchen.
 Thdtc was no one in the kitchen now. but the floor was wet and mud tl'.cd with the, marks of mems boots These marks alarmed Jim, and, laying the baby on the table as he heard . heavy, step approaching. he drew his revolver and stepped behind pantry door. A large man, in the uniform of the regents cavalry, strode in unstead- fly. He was flushed with liquor. but ' he was clear headed enough to have suspected that some one had entered Suddenly he dropped his chunk of meat and, crouching started toward the pantry.
 Jim, waiting, shifted his revolver to his left hand and drew his sword with his right. He crouched, too, and as the man came around the end of ithe door Jim lunged. His point caught flesh and went through it. There was 2 q horrible gasp, gurgle, but no other sound. The man, run through the neck. fell without his finger contract ing so as to fire his revolver.
 "Derrinv' mans voice was calling, { obviously for the man whom Jim had just killed. "Derrinr' l.
 The man who called-he wores the same uniform with the chevrons of q sergeant-was coming down the stairs.
 Jim aimed his revolver pitilessly and shbt the sergeant through the head. The man crumpled and rolled down to the hail. Jim retreated into a coat closet and waited. No one came. In locked room above, the door of which he broke down, Jim found four rir,s overcome by escaping gas. They were attempting to kill themselves. One of the girls was Beatrice Logan, whom he tried to revive. Summoning { the five men who had been travelling with him, they returned to the house, where they repulsed an attack of the regents soldiers, killing five of them.
 Even as he worked over the half un- conscious Beatrice she struggled signinst him.
 a,,-'"Tt's-it's your she murmured at last "You-you were"- .sYes, it's IT. Jim assured. 'Then-then where am IY'
 Gradually he got the sense to her. We came and found you, and we have killed them. all who were here; we have killed themr'
 "Killed themr' she cried. Killed them! You have killed the soldiers herc! Oh, our poor people! Oh, help our poor peopler'
 Later Jim led his party and the girls to safety.
 Jim became a captain and vowed be held next time.
 He was going to shoot his men if they faltered. Far, far better to shoot them and fall in the battle line than to abandon more women and children to the invade.
 Along with the infantr.-men of his company there were men who, when they had had horses, had been cavdl- rymen. Mart Ware was amon,, them. The company was quite nondescript, but all had been under fire before, so ] they were stationed at vital point in the first line trenches above Cayuga lake.
 The lake was miles longer than pre- viously, all the valley on the north be- ing flooded. Jim's section of front was just beyo.,d the flood. There were two mcYe trenches behind him-three little lines of ditches, each with a man every yard or so-just these three lit tie lines between invasion, as Jim had seen during these recent days, and security and sanctity for honor, life and possessions. Jim talked to his men frankly before the battle began. Every man was to stand and fight az long as he had strength. If the order came to leave the trenches and ad- vance tae company was going to ad- vance or the officers would shoot the men who faikd
 During all the forenoon, for five hours following the dawn, that sec tion of trench was shelled. A few of the men went mad that morning, two from head wounds which made them maniacs for the inhuman hour before they died. Then, during Q snow furry 1n the afternoon, the shrapnel ceased and the assault came-the charge of ehoussnds of yelling, white coated fig