The Morgan County press. (Wartburg, Tenn.) 1916-1926, 1916-10-12
CHAPTER XIV.
Ethel Makes an impression.


! Those German infantrymen were
formidable-looking company to descend
upon a peace-loving innkeeper such a
Henri Christophe. 1t was, indeed, NJ
wonder that he viewed them with ap
prehension, as they stood there at pa
rade rest and stared stolidly into his
startled face. 1t seemed to him thai
wherever he looked he met the deter
mined, impersonal, almost inhuman
! blue eyes of one Of those businesslike
| Germans And there was something
sinister in the very way they crowded
his hosiery. Henri Christophe could
not help feeling that even so they
| would crowd every house in Belgium.
To him they seemed like locusts sent
by displeased God to swarm over
the and.ilntil it should be filed to
overflol And always, he
told lii lere would be count
less thr9a 6ll the slightest gap in
While CfFIsUphe viewed them with
mingled alarm and amazement, tele-
phone sergeant joined those gray
ghosts from beyond the Rhine. He
carried a gun slung over his back and
field telephone in his hands. Placing
the instrument on one Of Christophe's
tables, he proceeded to run wire
through the doorway to the street.
"The major is comingv' he an
nounced to his friend the corporal, who
at once commanded his men to present
arms. So they stood, posed like stat
ues, when Major Won Brenig entered,
saluted the flag, and then cast quick
glance Of satisfaction about the ROOM
Just before him another figure had
slipped inside the door, and returned
the salute Of the corporal; and now he
stood impassively looking on, much as
IL the proceeding were merely an ev-
eryday occurrence with him. But
however unconcerned he appeared, he
was far from disinterested. However
much he appeared at ease in his uni |
form of German captain, he felt any
thing but at home in it. There was, in |
truth, no uniform that suited Larry
Redmond so well as that Of his own
Irish Guards.
"This is good!' Major Won Brenig
old his corporal. And it was evident
hat Lieutenant Baum and Sergeant
Schmidt, who had arrived simultane-
,usly with him, shared his sentiments
heartily. Can we not spend the
light here?" the major asked.
Then he proceeded to avail him
elf of the aids that the foresight of
he general staff had long ago devised
or just such an emergency.
Baum" he said, turning to the lieu
enant, "have you the papers and the
nap from the WiIhelmstrasseT
Lieutenant Baum saluted, and at
nee he handed some documents to his
uperior officer, who scanned them
uickly.
"'Lion d'Orr" he read aloud.
Proprietor, Henri Christopher :.
ring Henri Christophe," he ordered. J
At that the innkeeper himself
.epped forward.
81 am Henri Christophe," he an
Ounced in a quavering voice, even as
Schmidt was starting to
arch for him.
"Oh, you speak Englishr the major {
i'd.
Eyes, m'sieuT' Christophe did not r
low why he had committed that r
each of policy. But he was too
ightened even to reproach himself for ID
e lnadvertence.
You are the proprietor OF this inn3"
e officer demanded. Of
Yes. m'sieuP a
Major Won Brenig barked out an or el
r to his men. And straightway they n
'sed both the shutters and the great al
or that gave upon the street Mean hC
lille the major examined bis papers to
rther al
you have q daughter" he an
unced at Lengths. Jeanne Marie n