Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-06-30

pie in a basket Leontine. run and get your
own and your mothers best shoes. You
can change them in the wood"
What wood?" put In Maertz.
We cant walk TO MaestrCht by the
main road, you fool"
That's all right for you and madame
here. and for Leontine. perhaps. But |
remain in Belgium NY friends are fignt
ing yonder at Liege, and I'm going to join
them, And these others mustn't try it,
The frontier is closed for them | was
offered my life only two hours ago II !
arrested them"
Jan" cried Leontine Indignantly
TITS true. why should I tell a lie? I
didn't understand then the sort Of game the
Prussians are playing. Now that !
know"
Miss Beresford," broke in Dalroy em-
phatieally. "if these good people will not
escape when they may we must leave them
to their fate"
DO come Monsieur Joos' said Irene.
speaking for the first time since the tragedy.
by remaining here you risk your life TO no
purpose"
we are coming now. ma'm'selle."
Suddenly the milIer's alert eye was caught
BY a spasmodic movement In the limbs OF
the last man whom Dalroy struck down.
ITEMS :" he cried, that fellow isn't finished
with yet"
He was making for the PROSTATE form
with that terrible fork when Daroy ran
swiftly. and Collared him. Stop that -
came the angry command "A fair fight
must not degenerate into murder out you
get now. or TN throw you out"
Joos laughed. You're making a mistake,
monsieur" he said These Prussans don't
fight that way. They'd kill you Just for the
fun Of the thing II you were tied hand and
foot But let the rascal live II it pleases
YOU As for this one" and he spurned
Busch's body with hts foot, ,"'he's done. Did
you hear him? He squeAled like pig"
DaIroy was profoundly relieved when the
automatic pistols and ammunition we're col
lected, the lamp extinguished, the door
closed and the whole party had passed
through a garden and orchard to the gloom
of ths ravine. The hour WAS about half past
8 o'clock Twenty-four hours earlier he and
Irene were about TO leave Cologne by train,
believing with some degree OF confidence
that they might be allowed 10 cross the
frontier without let or hindrance ! Life was
then conventional with a spice OF danger.
Now II had descended In the social scale
until they ranked on a par with the dog
that had gone mad and must be slain at
sight The German code OF war Is legal
paraphrase OF the ricksters formula
Heads l win. tails you lose" The armies
OF the Fatherland are ordered 10 practice
"frightfulness." and so terrorize the civil
population that the inhabitants OF the
stricken country will compel their rulers to
sue for peace on any terms, But woe to
that same civil population II some small
section Of it's members resists or aVenges
any act OF "frightfulness" Soldiers might
murder the widow Jaequinot and ravish
her granddaughter, officers might plan a
bestial orgy in the miller's house but Dali
roy and JoOs and Maerts, IN Furnishing the
one set OF crimes and preventing another,
had placed themselves outside the law.
Neither JOos nor MaertL cared a farthnE
rushliKht about the moral consequences Of
that deadly struggle In the kitchen, but
Dalroy was in different case. He knew
the certain outcome. Small wonder II his
heart was heavy and his brow scanned
We must halt here" Dalroy said au-
thoritatively. stopping short in the shadow
of a small clump Of trees on the edge OF
the ravins, a place whence there was a fair
neId OF view, yet % close 20 dense brush
Eood that the beet Of eovar vas available
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