The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1917-07-28

drilled perSiStently and made familiar
with rifle practice"
in other words. they are being made
| into private army of trained men.
ready to be- offered Ia the countrys
service in event of war"
"EXrcllency-yeS."
II must see for myself. 4 dangerous
business, dangerous precedent;
should many American captains Of in
du>try adopt this scheme. the United
States will have Il standing army too
soon. far too soon. We must find some
way to discourage this young woman
-Some way To StcriiZe her efforts to-
ward preparedness before she can
prove them practicable.
Kato bowed assent. After another
moment Huroki dismissed him upon
his GRAND
Within ten minutes the two, thor
oughly masked against recognition in
their motoring garments, left the
house and took their placcS-Kato at
the whecl-in hiGh-powercd motor
car of the roadster type.
Tooling the car along in discreet rec
ognitiun of traffic regulations as long
as they travelled city streets. once they
had gained open country kato drove al
Il pace which would hay" been fool
hardy in II driver less adept.
For Il time, en route. their way ran
-. al wit
much as mile the roadster raced Il
light special train. Then. admonishcd
by liuroki'S touch on his sleeve. KatO
modified the speed and permitted the
special 10 draw ahead. As it did So
llurOki identified Enthusiastically tie
slight, girlish figure that sat alone ON
the observation platform.
So Patria Claiming was likewise |
bound for Powder Town,
Even had he been without mask, .
the face Of the Japanese would have /
betrayed no trace of emotion. Yet the /
sight of the girl had set aStir in him
passions which had for some time lain
iOrmant-dark passions bred of hatred
and chagrin. For. alone among the
many men and women with whom he
had come in contact in the course of
4 long and active and varied career.
Patria had proved a Stumbling-block to
his ambition, stubbOrnly opposing her
1uny strength to hiS-and overcoming
him, persiStently thwarting his Shrewd-
'St schenes-and paying no penalty.
His arrangements were now all
made for furtive, transformations exit
rom the country which Patria had
made too hot to harbOr him longer. He
vas, in effect, being driven out by this
Insignificant wisp of wOmanhood-out-
awed. failure, disgraced, in i'll favor
With his emperor.
And he had been prepared to go
Without further attempt To balance his
'core with Patria. But this accidental
which the girl had re-
NAMED so serenely unconSciouS-made |
hin change his mind. Secretly he de- ,
ermined, before the special had
ounded bend ahead and vanished
rom his view, upon one final essay :
o avenge his wrongs ere he fled.
An hour later it stood empty with
ngine idle on a by-rOad near the sum- I
nit of hill overlooking the little val {
ey in which lay Powder Town. Tween
y feet above ii, in the cover of a {
roup of trees on the hilltop, HurOki ;
nd kato were looking down into the !
alley. with the aid of binoculars, the |
apanese reading plain confirmation of j
IL the newspaper alleged concerning {
'atria'S activities in the cause of pre- q
q
On the open space that lay between .
he group of factory buildings and the /
OWN. upwards of five hundred men [
4 semluniform and bearing arms were
erfOrming evOlutiOnS with a snap and $
precision that spoke well for Donald v
arrs system of training.
HurOkis face darkened. if
Down the road from the railway sta f
on came mOtor-car. In it sat Patria r
manning. As it appeared the men in o
raining responded quickly to snapped
rders and arrayed themselves in long I,
inks for review, presenting arms as y
he car came to a pause at little dis V
ince before them. u
Alighting, Patria was welcomed by
aptain Parr and a group of officers. a
After walking the length of the front r,
INKS, Patria returned to the motor OF
'r and took from the tonneau an OBJ 81
ct resembling, at distance a pole, in