The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1922-04-17


inc to DO any work "A IN the street.
ali we're ia grcups eagerly talking.
The clerks rscm rcscunded with eN'
cited discussion. Ever, body wanted
10 taik % somebody. lie went into
Me Fortunes rootn. MIR Fortune
and Twyuing and Harold were gath.
cred round a map cut from a news
papcr, All talking. even young liar.
cid giving views ard being attentive.
IA listened TO. They looked up and
greeted him cordially. Everybody
Vas cordial and communicative 10
everybody. Come along IN. sabre. ="
Tie ioined them and he found their
conVrr~atio extraordinarily rcassur.
ms. IKE the wonian who had saffi.
cicntly nroNisioned with three tins OF
fruit. pot Of Jam and BAG OF flour.
They knew tremendous hot shou,
A and had evidently been reading
military articles FOR days past They
All showed what MAS going TO be
done. Illustrating It ON the mar. And
the man itself was extraordinarily
reassurinK. as Twyning shcwcd-shss
fingers covering the whole 81 the bel
lirerent countries while the Ger
mans were delivering all their pow.
or down here. IN Belgium. the Rus
SLAMS simply nipped In here and
would be threatening Berlin before
these fools knew where they were.
lie thought. by Joye. yes"
-And granted" aid Mr.. Fortune
MIR. Fortune was granting propo~i.
tons right and left with an amiabli.
NV out Of all keeping with his normal
stuhhornnczs and granted that
Germany can put into the field the
enormous numbers you mention.
Twyniug. what Use are they 10 herr
None. No use whatever. ! was talk
ing last night 10 STR James Boulder.
His son has been foreign correspond
cnt 10 one % the London papers for
years. Hes attended tho army
uaneuv-rs in Germany. France. Aus.
trsa--evcrywherc. lie knows modern
military conditions thru and thru. as
YOU may say. Well. he says--and
IT'S obvious when you think Of il
that Germany cant possibly use her
enormous masses. No room for them.
Only the rser,st fraction can ever
get into action Where they're com.
ing in II Ike crowdgng into the neck
OF bottle. Two-thirds Of them use.
iersiy jarnmed up behind A mere
handful can hold them up
Harold put in. Yes. and those
terrific fcrtreSes. STR"
Precisely. Precisely. Liexe. Ma.
muir. Answerp--absoluteiy lmpregl
nabie. all the military correspondents
say 80. Imprcgnabie. Well. then.
There you arr. It's Ike sending
thousand men to fight In street
Look here lie went vigorously TO
the window They all went 20 the
window. sahrc with them. profound.
Is Impressed. MIR Fortune pointed
into the street There. That's What
Il is Here comes your German army
down this way from the cathedral
Choked Blocked. imniovablc mob.
How many Do you suppose could hold
them up Thirty. twenty. q dozen.
Hold them up and throw them into
hopeless and utter disorder. Pah.
Simple. isn't it, dont suppose III.
thing viii last a month. What do
you say. SABRE" Sabre was feeling
considerably more al ease. He felt
that the first shock Of the thing had
made him take an exaggerated view
Il don't see how IL can he said.
now I'm hearing a BIT more about
H. l was thinking just now what
dramatic thing u would Be Il u Last
ed--of course Il cnn't---but II II last.
Ell tai next June and the decisive
battle was fought In June. 1915. fust
a hundred years after Waterloo. That
would be dramatic. chr
They all laughed. and Sabre. re
alizing the pr~posterouanes o. such
q notion. laughed with them. T~yn-
ing said. Next June. Imagine a..
Al the very outside 1, viii BE- web
over By Christina"
And they all agreed. on, ratherF'
II was all immensely r~assuring
and Sabre gathered up his bundle Of
papers and went into his room. feel
ing on the whole rather rIessurabiy
excited than otherwise. But as he
read. column after column and paper
after paper. measures that had been
taken by the Government. orders to
Army and Naval re@ervists. the I'm
pending call for men, the scenes In
the streets OF London. and with these
the deeply grave tone Of the leading
articles. the tremendous statistics and
the huge foreshsdovving Of certain
OF the military correspondents. the
breathless news already from the
seats Of war--as his mind thus re
ceived there returned 20 IL its earlier
sense Of enormous oppression and
tremendous conjecture. War. . .
England. The first sentence Of
his history. now greatly advanced.
came tremendously into his mind.
This England you live in il yours.
:" And now at war--challengesi---
threatened
II surned enormously within him.
He got up. He must 70 out into the
streets and see what was happening.
The day wore on. He felt ex.
traordinarily shy and self.conscious
about the performance OF matter
that had entered his mind with that
surging upiift OF his feelings. II was
four o'clock in the afternoon before
he took himself 70 II and then, leav.
ing It's place. he unexpectedly en-
countered Mabel. She was just going
into the station. She had come In.
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