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THE SILVER SPRINGS .SIGNAL The Last Shot FREDERICK PALMER (Copyrlgbc, 10K, t >j. Charles tJcrlbnor'i Son*) -17—— SYNOPSIS. At tholr home on tho frontier botwcon the Browns and Grays' Marta Galland and .\ 'her mother, entertaining Colonol Wcstor- ' ling of (he Grays, seo Captain Lanstron of -the- Browns-Injured by a- fall- in- his aeroplane. Ten years lator. Westerling, nominal vlco but real chief of staff, re-en forces South La Tlr and meditates on war. Marta tells lilm of her teaching-children tho follies of war and martial patriotism, and begs lilm to prevent war while ho Is chief of staff. Lanstron callB on Marta * oi her home. She tells Lanstron that she believes Feller, the. gardonor, to bo a spy. Lanstron confesses It Is true and shows her- a telephone' which Feller has v con coaled In a secret passage under the tower for use to benefit tho Browns 'In war emergencies. Lanstron declares his love for Marta. Westerling and the Grays pro- pare plans to use a trivial International affair to foment warlike patriotism and -.strike before declaring war. Partow, Brown chief of staff, reveals bis plans to . Lanstron. made vlco chief. Tbo Gray nrmy crosses the border line and attacks. Tho Browns check them. Artillery, In fantry,- aeroplanes and dirigibles engage. Marta has her first glimpse of war in Its rnodorn. cold, scientific, murderous, bru tality. Tho'Browns fall back to tho Gat- land house. Marta sees a night attack. — Tho Grays attack In force. Feller leaves hln secret telephone -and goes back to his guns. Iland to hand fighting. Tho Browns fall back again. Marta asks Lanstron over tho phone to appeal to Partow to stop the fighting Vandalism In tho-Galland house, westerling and his staff occupy tho Gal- land house and he begins to woo Mnrtn, who apparently throws her fortunes with the Grays and offers valuable Information. * Bhe calls up Lanstron on tho secret tele- phoni? and plans to give Wostecjlng Infor- »• matlon that will trap the Gray army. Westering fqrras his plan of attack upon what lie li-arns from \her The Grays take Bordlr Through Mnrta Westerling Is led to concentrate his attack on the main lino at Gnicarifr A leak of Information Is sus pected nourhard Is relieved as chief In telligence officer and In going aorusos M«.rtaw.jycsterltng thinks him craiy Tho Ornys take tho apron of Engadlr. Par tow dies' suddenly and Lanstron succeeds tilm Its composer, born to the red and be come Captain Stransky In the red biialnees of war. ft was he/who led the thunder of Its verses. \I certainly like that song,\ he said. Well he might. It had made him fa mous throughout the nation. \Tnere's Jehovah and brimstone in it. Now we'll have our own.\ \But we're always losing-positions I\ complulnutj que of the men^ 2 'lMtl*. by little* they are getting-possession.\ •\They say^fhe offensive always wins,\ said another. —\Five' 1 against thine! -=They count on numbers,\ safd Lieutenant Tom Praglni. ' . \There you go, Tom! Any other pessimists or anarchists want to be heard?\ called,put Stransky. \Just how long, at the presjgt rate, will it take them' to get- ttnr^whole range? There's a limit to the/number of even five millions.\ ~J \The army fa yours, Westerling,' concluded the premier. *I admire your stolidity of purpose. You have my con fidence.. I shall wait and hold the situ ation- at home the best I can. We go into the hall of fame or into the trut-) ter together, you and II\ For a while after he had-hung up the receiver Westerling's head drdoped,. his muscles relaxed, giving CHAPTER XVIiI—Continued. >• — Far up on a peak -among -the birds and aeroplanesrin a roofed, shell-proof chamber, with a telephone orderly at bis side, a powerful pair of field-glasses and range-finders''at his elbow, and a telescope before bis eye, Gustavo Fel- lor t .one time gardener and now-acting colonel of artillery, watched the burst of^eliells oVcr the enemy's lines. While other men had grown 'lean on war, he had taken on^enough flesh to fill out Watched the Bursting of Shells Over the Enemy'* Llhea. the wrinkles around his eyes that shone with an artlsVs enjoyment of his. work. Down under cover of the ridge were his' guns, the keys of the instrument that he played by calls over the wire. Jhelr barking, was aj symphony to his ears; errors ot or chestration wero .errors in aim. He talked as he watched, hie lively fea tures reflective of his impressions. VOh, pretty! Right Into their turn-' •rates! Right In tbe nose! La, la, la! But that's off—and so's that! -Tell Battery C they're fifty yards over. Oh, beao>eyed gods and shiny little fishes —two smacks in the^ eame spot! Humph' Tell Battery^ C that the trgjuble_ withJ&at-gun -fB -worn-rifllnsT that's why It's going short. Elevate it for another hundred yards—buff it ought not to wear out so soon. I 'd like to kick tho maker or the inspector. The iellows In B 21 will accuse us of inat tention It's time to -drop a shell on thorn to show we're perfectly impartial In,our favors. La, la, la! OH, what Sjpretty smack! Congratulations!\ B 21 was the position of Fracasse's company and -the pretty smack the one that broke one man's arm and crushed another's head. »•»•••». Tho \God with us!\ song was alngu- arly rutted to the great, bull voice ot Tn^en tbe telephone in the redoubt brought some news. The staff begged to inform the army that the enemy casualties in the last three days had been two hundred thousand! Immedi 'ately everybody- waB talking at once in Stransky's parliament, as he some^ times called that company of which he was, i n the final analysis, unlimited monarch. \How do they know.?\ \Do you think it's fake?\ \That sums up to pretty near aNnll- Hon!\ . \My God! Think of it—a million! \We're whittling them down!\ \It doesn't make any difference whether Partow. or Lanstron is chief ot staff!\ - . , \They're paying!\-' \Paying for our fellows that they've killed! Paying for being in the wrong!\ Stransky, his exes drawing inward in their characteristic slant, was well pleased .with his company, and the scattered exclamatory badinage -kept on until It was interrupted by the ar rival of the mall. Partow arid Lan stron, understanding their machine, as human, in Its elements, had chosen that the army .should hear from home. \How'e this!\ exclaimed one man, readihg from a newspaper. \They're going to put up a statue of Partow in the capital I It 's to show him as he died, dropped forward on tbe map, and in front of his desk a field of bayonets. On one \face of the baBe will be his name. Two of the other faces will have 'God with us!' and 'Not for theirs, but ,t(A --ours!' The legend on the fourth fade the'war is to decide. \Victory! Victory!\ cried tho.se who had listened to the announcement. Stransky was thinking that they had to do more than hold the Graye Before he should sea his girl they had to take baqk the lost territory. He carried two pictures of Minna in his mind: one when she ha'd struck hinr in the face as he tried to kiBS her and the other as he said good-by at the kitchen door. There was not much encouragement in either. \But when Bhe gets better acquaint ed with me there's no telling 1\ he kept thinking. \I was fighting out v of cus eedhess at first. - Now* Fm-frghting for her and to keep wj^at Is ours!\ rain (Land body a. releaserfrom tension-. Butfhis spine was as stiff as ever a; he 'left the, closet, and he was evej smiling to give the impression,, the news from the capital was fa brought back some of the buoyancy of Even the minute of'the attack, <bpi< spirit that he craved*.. A woman's fig- knew; and just before midnight thoy ure,°with a cape thrown ovet the shoul- were standing at the window looking ders and the head bare, loomed- out of out into the night, while the vice-chief tbe mist* 1 held hia watch in hand. In the hush ^\T rnnlrfn'* crny in -Tint tO-niEht,\ 1 f»a f^nt rmmil-of-rt-tHrlftlhlp'H- pfnnwli Marta- said as Westerling drew near, ler high up In the heavens, muffled by \I had to see. It's only a quarter of the fog, was drowned by the Gray an hour now, isn't it?\ guns opening Are. She seemed so utterly frail .nnd | «, *——* • * distraught that Westerling in to Befofe ^ exploded, by th* -mlse of Protection, laid his hand on Ughj . Qf ^ heJ1 bURjts breakJng tnelr relaxed shoulders. / vast prlsms from centra , splleres of ^Our cause is at stake to-nlsht,\ he | fm , mU(}S| with the ^vsk. so- ared, \yours and mmei-^SyVe-a.u=» . qUetlee of iT^bvWpTcturc flicker, you and I! It is our-destiny \ ^casse's men could see ' onc^noth-fr 'B u and -II-\- repeated Marta. \Why 1 yorf and I?\ .^^mu It seemed very strange to l^fckink- faces, spectral \and < stiff and pasty white, with teeth gleaming where jaws had dropped, some eyes half closed by CHAPTER XIX. * The Ram. In the closet off the Galland library, where the long-distance telephone was Installed, WeBterltng was talking with the premier In the Gray capital. \Your total casualties - are eight hun dred thousand. That is terrific, Wes terling!\ the premier was saying. \Only two hundred thousand of those are dead!\ replied Westerling. \Many with only slight wounds are already returning to the front. Ter rific, do you say? Two hundred thou sand in five millions 1 B one. man out of twenty-five. That wouldn't have worried Frederick the Great or Napo leon much. Eight hundred thousand is one out of six. The trouble is that such vast armies have never been en gaged before. You must consider the percentages, .net the totals.\ Yet, eight hundred thousand! - If the$)ubllc knew!\ exclaimed the pre mier. \The public does not know!\ said Westerling. \They guess. They realize that we stopped, the soldiers' letters because they told bad news. The, situation is serious.\ \Why not give the public, something to think about?\ WeBterling demanded. 'I 've tried. It doesn't work. The murmurs increase. I repeat, my fears ot a rising of the women are well \grounded. There Is mutiny in the? air. I feel it through the columns of the press, though they are censored. I—\ Then, soon- I 'll give the public some thing \o think about, myself!\_Wester ling broke id. \The dead will be for gotten. The -wounded will be proud of their wounds and tbejtr fathers and mothers* triumphant when our army descends the other side of the range and starts, on its march to the Browns' ^capital.\ \But y.ou have not yet taken a Blngle fortress!\ persisted the premier. \And the Browns report that they have | lost only tnree hundred thousand men.\ . able. • When he .called his chiefs'of dlvi slon it was hardly for a staff council. Stunned by tho losses and repulses, loyally industrious, their opinions -un- ing of any two persons when hTHoTeds J the DUn( }ing flashes and some opened asked, they listened to bis whirlwind of thousands were awaiting, the signal wlde aa Jf llda paralyzed, of ofders-without comment—all except for the death prepared by'^im. He p^ces and faces' A sea of Turcas. - ... mistook the character of Jrer thought Btretchlng afr ay d Q Wn the slope. ''lf.they;are_annrised of our nlari nnd In thn_nhgaBglrm-nf-hla-<»gnlgmT- m - a . t rance , are'ahTe to concentrate.more artillery. \What ho lives mean?\ he cried with Up over t ' h0 breastworks /ovVr rocks than our gunsjiafc silence, the losses a sudden, desperation, his grip of her and Bp H n t ere d Umbers. Peterkin and will be demoralizing,\ he observed. shoulders tightening.* \It ia 'the law Hlo <„ A „ B . a „„„ „„a th^r faces faces. Westerling threw \up his head, frown-1 of nature for manto flcht Unless ha ^ 8 judge ' s 80n and tnelr comrade* e down thn nhWiA„ • - „L, t \ , Il ' J0 D f at - Un ^ ess JJ e clambered. When they moved they flfehts be goes to seed. One trouble were as a myr i ad . leggea creature, with our army is that it was soft from brala . numDedf wlthout ! > any sensation %L T I?' th T la , W 1 M ' exce Pt that-of rapids going over a fall. e B ' 0 ,^ attest to survive! Other Thoae ta front ^ , d M belng ^ I . J 0 *? ™ he P °uf ^ P ushe( J °» by the pressure of those in those who die .to-night. There will < be the rear . F ^ r a f ^ th were all the more room for those who live. Yfetory will create new opportunities. What»is a million out of the^billiona Ing down the objection. \Suppose they amount to half the forces that we send in!\ he exclaimed. \Isn't the position,, which \means the pass and the range, worth it?\ \Yes if we^oth/feke and hold it not if -we fail,\ Mplleduurcas, quit unaffected by W#eterling '8 manner. \Failure Is not In my lexicon!\ Wes terling shot back. \For great gains there, must be great risks.\ \We prepare for the movement, your excellency,\'answered Turcas, under no fire. The scream of their own sheriff breaking In infernal pande monium in. front seemed, t o be a power as Irresistible as the rear of the wedge in driving themon. Then sounds more hideous than the flight of projectiles broke about them with the abruptness of lightnings held In the hollow # of the Almighty's hand and suddenly released. The Browns' guns had opened fire. Explosions were even swifter in sequence than the on-the face of the earth? ThoBe who lead alone count—those who. dwelkin the atmosphere of the peakta^-as we do!\ The pressure of his strong hands It Was a steel harness of his own in the unconscious emphasis of his will that Westerlinfc-wore, without ad- passion became painful; but she did mittlng that-it galled him, and he -laid -not protest or try to draw a.way, thlnk- lt off only in Marta's presence. .With ing- of his hold In no personal sense her, his growing sense of Isolation Bad- but as a part of .his eelf-revelatlon. \All the relief of companionship. She be-' —all is at stake there!\ he continued, i flas hee that revealed the stark faceB came a kind of<*mirror of his egoism staring toward.the- range.\ \It'e the 1 and ambitions. He 'Slked to have her Rubicon! I have put my career on to- think of him as \BrgTeat man unruffled night's caB 't! Victory means that the among weaker men. In the<quiet and world will be at our feet—honor, po- seclusion of the garden, Involuntarily sition, power^gSeater than that of any as-one who has no confidant-speaks other' two human beings! Do you fo himself,-reserving fortitude for hie realize what that means—the honor part before the staff, whllo she, under and the power that will be o\urs? 1 the spell of her purpose, silently, with oh.aH have directed the greatest army serene and' wistfully listening eyes t the world has ever known to victory!\ played hers, he outlined how the final ^ \And defeat means—what does de- and telling blow was to be struik. feat mean?\ she asked narrowly, calm- Dust' and .stones and flying fragments of flesh filled the air.- Men went down In positive paralysis of faculties by the terrific crashes. Sections of the ram were blown to pieces by the burst of a shrapnel shoulder high; other sec tions were* lifted heavenward by a shell burst In the earth. _ Peterkin fell with a piece of Jagged Bteel embedded. In his brain. He had gone from the quick to the dead so 'We must and we shall win!' kept repeating. he ,„. . , — j~, . swiftly that he never knew that his got Fracasse, sword in hand, and on- Through a rubber disk held to his i ear in the closet of hla bedroom a other buried him where he lay. The banker's son went » $ttle farther,' \the barber's son still farther. Men who were alive hardly realized life, so mixed were life and death. Infernal What had been a-~shadow in his thoughts became a live monster, strik ing him with the force of a blow. He voice, tremulous with nervous\ fatigue. for S°t Marta. Yes, what would de- was giving Lanstron news that all his feat mean to him? Sheer human na- mlJLm wvi „ aircraft and cavalry and spies could ture broke through the bonds SI men- imagination goes faint; Ite wildcat not have gained; news worth more tal d^Ptae weakened by sleepless. slmiles grow feeble and banal before than a score of regiments; news fresh nights. Convulsively his head dropped auch a consummation of hell, from the lips of the chief ot staff ot as ne c °vered his face. tbe enemy. The attack was to be \Meat! Fall! That I should fail! made at the right of Engadlr. its cen- ne moaned. , Then it was that she saw him in reality of his littleness, which she had divined; this would-be conqueror. She saw him as'his Intimates often eee the great man without bis front, of Jove. ter breaking from the redoubt manned by Fracasse'e men. \Marta you genius!\ Lanstron cried. \You are the real ^general! You—\ \Not that, please!\ she broke in. . .J* Don't we know that Napoleon\ had mo- c i 8 i 0 n, organization, solidarity in this Tm-iu. foul and depraved as a dealer £ q[ cy when he wnlned d d p 8uch aB ^ dayfl ^ the „ death . in subtle poisons in the middle ageS! g a ^ suiclde? she wondered If or . g iory\ hoys never knew! Over the OU. the shame o it, I J* Jto too . were i iKe that-if it were ' bod g , 0 /- of Peter kin and the barber's his eyes .and feign admiration• t the . na ture of all conquerors who and thff banker's sons, plunging everything which .will draw out: hte coul(J not nave uieir way. It seemed\ through shell craters, 'stumbling, stag plans!- I can never f °rsgt» h « sight ^ Weste rling was beneath gerlngi cut b y swaths and torn h, of him as he told me three numble8t prlvate ln n , 8 a rmy=?be. ° ddlee of .- re d destruction In or four hundred thousand men were fh „„„„ ,„,, „.„t. — to be crowded Into a ram, ft«-he^called'^ eatn °\ it—a raja of human flesh!—and guns P atcn But the tide keeps on; the torn gape of the ram are filled by the rushing egs from the rear. Officers urge and ead. Such are the orders; suc.h is the duty prescribed; such is human bravery even ffl these days when Ufa. Is sweeter to more men in the joys of| mind and body than ever before. Pre- by. their ranks, the tide, proceeded, until Its hosts were oftener treading on flesh than on soil. And all they knew waB to keep on—keep on, bayonet in hand, till they reached the redoubt, and\ there eath even that fellow with the liver guns f°tch on 'his cheek who had broken enoug h in support, he said.-to tea r any the chandelier in the sport 6f brutal redoubts to pieces; guns^enough to Paselon. All sense o # f her own part was make their shells as thick as the bul- submerged in the sight of a chief of „ w ^ a , cu lets from an automatic!\ staff exhibiting no more stolo^sm than tney were to ^ a , iye or dead ^ \We'll meet ram with ram! We 'll a Petulant, ^polled schoolboy. 1 have some guns, too!\ exclaimed Lan- While his head was stilUjent- the ar- s\tron. \We'll send as heavy a shell tillery began its crashing thunders and \After hell, more hell, and then still fire at their infantry as they send Into the sky became light with flashee. His more hell!\ was the way that Stransky our \redoubts.\ , hands stretched out toward the .range, expressed his thought when the en •Don't. It's too like Westerling. It clenched and pulsing with defiance and glnee'rs had taken the place of the 53d has become too trite!\ she protested, command 'The end! If I really were helping \ Go ln! Qo ln > aB 1 told you!\ he toward that and to save lives and our cried. \Stay In, alive-or-dead! Stay country to its people, what would my 4111 1 tel1 you to come out! Stay! 1 private feelings matter? My honor,. can 't do an y more! my soul—what would anything'mat- DOw! ' [ of the Browns in the redoubt. They put their mines and connections deep enough not to be disturbed by shell' fire. After the survivors in the van of You must do it the Grays' charge, spent of breath, reached their goal and threw thein- \Then this may be truly the end,\ 8elves dowIT ' ^e earth under them, as I thought Marta, \If the-assault fails.\ the mine exploded.'\split and heaved \-And silently she prayed that it would heavenward. But those in the rear, fail; while the flashes lighted Wester- slapped in tti? face by the concussion, llng'e set features, imploring success. ke P l on, driven by the, pressure of the - mass at their backs, and,, in turn, ^g \t ' 1 ' plunged forward on their stomachs in InSiJPs Browns'- headquarters, as in t ne seams and furrows of the mine's , the Grays', telegraph instruments were havoc The mass thickened as the flood Perhaps when I call you up again I silent after the preparations were over. ter? For that, any sacrifice. I'm only one human being—a weak, luna tic sort of one, juat now!\ \Marta don't suffer so! You are overwrought You—\ T can say all that for you, Lanny,\ she Interrupted with the faintest laugh. \I've said It, so many times to myself. took, Mother! coatetf^ive \California ; Syrup ot FigsT* Children love this \fruit -laxative,\. nnd nothing else cleanses the tender stuinach, Hum mid .bowels' no nicely -A^hild^toply-^'ill-not-sto^layTng t'o empty the^bowelsj and the'result ia they become-lightly clogged with waste, liver gels sluggish, stomach sours, then your liUle - one becomes cross, half-sick, feverliSi, dr>D 't ea t. sleep or act naturally, breath is tad, system ful'l- of coldj ha3 acre throat Htnmnnh -ache or diarrhoea. Listen. - Mother! See if tongue is coated, then give a teaspopnful of \California- Syrup of Figs,\' and in a* few hours all the \constipated waste, sour bile and undigested food passes out of the sys tem, and_you have a well child again Millions of mothers give \California- Syrup of Figs\ because it- i s perfectly harmless; children love it, and it nev. er falls to act on the stomach, liver and bowels. * Ask at the store for-a 50-cent bottle of \California Syrup of Figs,\ which has full directions for babies, children, of all ages' and for grown-ups plainly printed on the bottle. .Adv. COMPARING MEN AND WOMEN Writer Points Qut Wide Differences Alleged to Exist In the Lives of 'the Sexes. Before marriage when they appear at social affairs it is correct to say he escorted h'er. But if they appear- together at such affairs after mar riage it is the proper thing to say that she dragged blm. If a woman wants to obtain any in fluence over a man she should refuse to marry him. When father keeps a scrapbook tbe- cllppings are all about uimself. tell ing what algreat man he js. how use ful to the community, how brave and ail that But when mother keeps a scrapbook, that's a different thing' Her scrapbook is 'all about the chil dren, recipes that father likes, cures for croup, and all that. « All a -woman gets, for her everts to pttain the ideal life by having a bou quet of flowera pn the tablo to uplift the soul Is her husband's complaint that he can't see what .the^ Is to eat on the other aider ef that \bunch ot weeds.—Exchange. * Ether Wanted, Not Author. A man who did not articulate very clearly, was present-.on the first night of a very badly-written and worse-_ acted play. A number of friends pre^ •jnt, full of compassion, appjauded at the end of the play, and the man ot deficient articulation was heard to call for the author, jarhq came out to \bow his hanks. / What in the world did you yelptet. the author for?\ aBked a friend of tbo | man. \I didn't YouC misunderstood I wa yelling for eth6r.\ See That Work Is Done Properly. Trained nurses .in Boston have | agreed, through one of their organiza tions, to give instructions as to -ho? j to prepare bandages, \sponges'\ an' 1 first-aid packages for shlpmen and use by the hospital and field surgeoas with the armies of all the nations in volved in the European war Wren- over women are preparlue; these things for tbe hospital they ma tele phone for a nurse to come and seo II the work Is dbno properly. „ , _ „ , of bodies jind legs banked up, in keep- S!^^ 8 °: f®?!™^^ I! 8tle88ly ' mg with Westerling's plan to bar. shall not be so hysterical. Lanstron was not thinking of war or I gi^cinTat the\r watcheT TheTToo' were glad- that the mist continued. It war's combination when he hung up the receiver. It was some moments before he returned to the staff rqom, and then he had mastered- his emo tion. He -was the soldier again. \Lanstron 'Is lying!\ retorted Wes terling hotly. \But no matter. We have taken positions with every\ at tack and kept crowding in closer. I aslr>-n6thlng better-than that the Browns remain on the defensive, leav ing initiative to\ us. We have devel oped their weak points. The resolute offensive always wine. I know whe're I am going to attack; they do not. I shall not give them time to reinforce the defense at our chosen point I have»still plenty of lire'soldiers left. I shall go ln with men enough* this time to win and to hoiej 7 meant no wind. When the telegraph did speak it wae with another message from Borne aerostatic officer saying, \Still favorable,\ which was taken at \enough to hold.\ (TO BE CONTINUED.) kiss Poor Mrs..Smith. A minister was recounting some •* .u.u.ou.o, <>ui^u woo laneu m jj ls an i U sing experiences ln marrying An hour or so before the attack the once- to Lanstron, who waB with the p eop i e . '\ TVIOTO'O on »VM „„ot~~. •» telegraph instruments^ in the Galland staff chiefs around the big table. They L B^,, h house had become pregnantly silent., nodded at the news and.emiled to one There were no more orders to give; another; and some who, had been pac- ao more reports to com.e from the ing sat down and others rose to begjn troops i n position until the assault was pacing afresh. -/^ made. Officers 'of supply ceased to \We could have emplaced two- lineB transmit routine matters over the wire, of automatics, one? above the other!\ while they strained their eyea toward exclaimed the chief of artillery. , the range. Officers of the staff moved '\'\But that would have given too much aboutv restlessly, glancing at their of a' climb for the infantry ln going In watches and going to the windows fre- —delayed -the rush,\ said Lanstron. quenax_to_see if the mist still held. There 'B an old custom, 1 aid he, \that the bridegroom shall tho bride immediately after tho marriage ceremony Is over. It's a good, practical custom, for it serves more handily than anything else that I know\ of to dissipate the awkward pause that almost always follows a simple, informal ceremony.' For this reason I keep the custom alive. \One day a man whom I shall call Smith came to the parsonage to h« No one entered the library where Westerling was seated rflone with nothing to do. His suspense was that of the mothers \vhp-\hnrged for i\ews of_their _Bons-atn -the »froE If they should stick-if we couldn't n^ed. Mr. Smith was a pompous. lv« th«m h»^ir!» exclaimed the vice- consequential little man. The pros! drive them back chief of staff. \I don't think they'will! stron. said Lan- To the others he seemed as cool as ever, even when his maimed hand was- nesB thattpf a man in«a hospital lobby _. .. waiting on the result of_ a\n operation twitching In his pocket. But now, sud- whose success or failure' wHl save or denly, his eyes starting as at a horror, wreck his career. The physical desire he trembled passionately, his nead of movement^ the,, conflict with some- dropping forward, as if he would col- thing ln his own mln.d, dro \ve him out lapse. - * • —^ of doorB. ._ ~ \Oh the murder >of it— the murder!*' Westerling was rather pleased with he breathed, the fact that he could, still smile; \.\But they nrought it on'. Not for pleased with the loyalty of younger thelrB,, but for ours!\ sold the vice- officers when, day by day, the staff chief, of staff, laying, his hand on Lan- had grown^ colder and more nfe- strQn v s shoulder, chanfeal in the attitude that com- \.And we sit here while they go in!\ pleted his isolation. Walking vigor- Lanstron added. \There'B a kind of ously along the path toward the tower, injustice about that -which I can't get the exercise of his muscles, the {eel over. Not one of us' here_£as. been ot the cool,' moist air on his face, under firel\ pectlve Mrs. -Smith was a fine, win some girl. After the ceremony? Mr- -Smith, iu spite ut his pomposity, did\ not seen! to know, just what was the 4MLt thing to do, as ik my prac tices in such-emergencies, I said: 'My dear sir, it is your privilege to salute the bride.' HO turned around and'ex- tending his hand formally, said: 'Mrs. Smith. I congratulate you.' \ Barber's\ Story Record. 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