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Telephone 744 Brownie Cameras In order to acquaint more of the people of Freeport with the delights and Instructlvenese of amateur photography, we are giving a No. 1 Brownie Camera each week to some one of our customers. Save the register coupons given with each pur chase—yours may have the lucky number. The winners of these cameras are entitled to compete In our Camera Club contest for a $25.00 Kodak. Particulars at our store.. CHUBBUCK’S QUALITY DRUG STORE Main Street Freeport, N. Y. r ___________ TnEld5T5HQT coeyA’/ayr/p/?; csaruj / j<Y?/aMr/?J EDERICK PALMER SYNOPSIS. C H A P T E R I—At their home on the fron tier between the Browns and G rays M ar ta G alland and her m o ther, entertaining Colonel W e sterllng »f the G rays, see C ap tain Lanstron, staff Intelligence officer of tho Browns, Injured by a fall In his aero plane. C H A P T E R II—Ten years later. W< staff, relnforoes on w ar, and i the soldiers of the world. The public would forget its unrest in the thrill of battles won and provinces conquered, and its clatter would be that of ac claim for a new idol of its old faith. es- terllng, nominal vice but real chief of elnforo 8 , an d speeiulates Ive ages of him self am Isltlng In the Gray en yea rs late r. vice b u t re a l phlef of S outh La Tlr, m e d itates sp ec on tho com p ara- hlm self and M arta, who Is capital. The throbbing activity of the streets of the capital, as his car proceeded on the way to her hbtel, formed an ener getic accompaniment to his gratifying backward survey of how all his plans had worked out from the very day of the prophecy. Had he heard the re mark of a great m anufacturer to the banker a t his side in a passing limous ine, \There goes the greatest captain of industry of us all!\ Westerllng would only have thought: “Certainly. I am chief of staff. I am at the head of all your workmen at one time or another!\ Had he heard the banker's answer, “But pretty poor pay, pretty small dividends!” he would have thought, \Splendid dividends—the divi dends of power!\ He had a caste contempt for the men of commerce, with their mercenary talk about credit and m arket prices; and also for the scientists, doctors, en gineers, and men of other professions, who spoke of things in books which he did not understand. Reading books was one of the faults of Turcas, his as sistant. No bookish soldier, he knew, had ever been a g reat general. He re sented the growing power of these leaders of the civil world, taking dis tinction away from the military, even when, as a man of parts, he had to court their influence. His was the profession that was and ever should be the elect. A penniless subaltern was a gentleman, while he could never think of a man in business as one. All the faces In the street belonged to a strange, busy world outside his In terest and thoughts. They formed what was known as the public, often making a clatter about things which they did not understand, when they should obey the orders of their su periors. Of late, their clatter had been about the extra taxes for the recent In crease of the standing forces by an other corps. Tho public was bovine with a parrot’s head. Yet it did not admire the toiling ox, but tho eagle and the lion. As his car came to the park his eyes lighted at sight of one of the dividends —one feature of urban life that ever gave him a thrill. A battalion of the 12Stb, which ho had ordered that after noon to tho very garrison at South La Tlr that he had once commanded, was marching through the maiu avenue. Youths all, of twenty-one or two, they were in a muddy-grayish uniform which was the color of the plain as seen from the veranda of the Galland house. Where these came from.were other boys growing up to take their places. Tho mothers of the nation were doing their duty. All the land was a breeding-ground for the divi dends of Hedworth Westerllng. At the far side of the park he saw another kind of. dividend—another group of marching men. These were not In uniform. They were the unem ployed. Many were middle-aged, with worn, ticed faces. Beside the flag of the country at the head of the proces sion was that of universal radicalism. And his car had to stop to let them pass. For an Instant the indignation of military autocracy rose strong with in him at sight of the national colors In such company. But he noted how naturally the men kept step; the solidarity of their movement. The stamp of their army service in youth could not be easily removed. He real ized the advantage of heading an army in which defense was not dependent on a mixture of regularo a n * volun teers, but on universal conscription that brought every able-bodied man upuer discipline. These reservists, In the event of war, would hear the call of race and they would fight for the one flag that then had any significance. Yes, the old human Impulses would predomi nate and the only enemy would be on the other side of the frontier. They would be pawns of his will—the will that M arta Galland had said would make him chief of staff. Wasn't war the real cure for the general unreetT Wasn't the nation growing a tale from the long peace T He was ready for war now that he had be come vice-chief, when the retirement of His Excellency, unable to bear the weight of bis years and decorations in the field, would make him the supreme commander. One ambition gained, he beard the appeal of another; to live to see the guns and rifles that had fired only blank cartrldgee In practice pouring out shells and bullets, and all the battalions that had played at sham war In maneuvers engaged In real war, under hie direction. He saw his column® sweeping up the slopes of the Brown range. Victory wag certain. He would be the first to lead a great mod em army against a great modem army; bis place as the master of rnod- ■ era taetJflg secure In the minds of gll CHAPTER III. The Second Prophecy. Marta, when she had received the note from Westerllng, had been in doubt as to her answer. Her curiosity to see him again was not of itself com pelling. The actual making of the prophecy was rather dim to her mind until he recalled it. She had heard of his rise and she had heard, too, things about him which a girl of twenty-seven can better understand than a girl of seventeen. His reason for wanting to see her he had said was to \renew an old acquaintance^' He could have lit tle Interest In her, and her interest in him was that ho was head of the Gray army. His work had intimate relation *to that which the M arta of twenty- seven, a Marta with a mission, had set for herself. A page came to tell Westerllng that Miss Galland would be down directly. When she appeared she crossed the room with a flowing, spontaneous vital ity that appealed to him as something familiar. \Ten years, isn’t it?\ she exclaimed as she seated herself on the other side of the tea-table. \And let me see, you took two lumps, if I remember?\ \None now,” he said. \Do you find it fattening?\ she asked. He recognized the mischievous sparkle of the eyes, the quizzical turn ot the lips, which was her asset in keeping any question from being per sonal. Neverthless, he flushed slightly. \A change of taste,” he averred. \Since you've become such a great man?\ she hazarded. \Is that too strong?\ This referred to the ten. \No just right!\ he nodded. He was studying her with the polite, veiled scrutiny of a man of the world. A materialist, he would look a woman over as he would a soldier when he had been a major-general making an inspection. She was slim, supple; he liked slim, suppl# women. Yes, she was twenty-seveh, with the vivacity of seventeen retained, though she were on the edge of being an old maid ac cording to the conventional notions. Necks and shoulders that happened to be a t his side at dinner, ho had found, when they were really beautiful, were not averse to his glance of appreci ative and discriminating admiration of physical charm. But he saw her shrug slightly and caught a spark from her eyes that made him vaguely con scious of an offense to her seneibili- tics, and he was wholly conscious that tho suggestion, bringing hia faculties up sharply, had the pleasure of a novel sensation. “How fast you have gone ahead!\ she said. \That little prophecy of mine d ij come true. You are chief of staff!\ After a smile of satisfaction he cor rected her. \Not quite; vice-chief—the right- hand man of His Excellency. I am a buffer between him and the heads of divisions. This hits led to the errone ous assumption which I cannot too forcibly deny—\ He was proceeding with the phrase ology habitual whenever men or wom en, to flatter him, had intimated that they realized that he was the actual head of the army. Hie Excellency, with the prestige of a career, must be kept soporiflcally enjoying the forms of authority. To arouse his jealousy might curtail W esterling’s actual power. \Yes yes!\ breathed Marta softly, arching her eyebrows a trifle as she would when looking all around and through a thing or when she found any one beating about the bush. The little frown disappeared and she smiled understanding!/. \You know I'm not a perfect goose 1\ she added. “Had you been made chief of staff In name, too, all the old generals would have been In the sulks and the young generals jealous,” she continued. “The one way that you might have the power to exercise was by proxy.\ This downright frankness was an other reflection of the old daye before he was at the apex of the pyramid. Now It waa so uausual In his experi ence as to be almost a shock. On the point of arguing, be caught a mis chievous, delightful \Isn’t that so?” In her eyes, and replied: “Yes, I shouldn’t wonder If It were!” Why shouldn’t he admit the truth to the one who had rung the bell of his secret ambition long ago by recognis ing In him the ability to reach his goal? He marvelled at her grasp ot the situation. \It wasn’t so very hard to saor, was It?” she asked happily. In response to hie smile. Then, her gift ot putting herself in another’s place, while she strove to look at thinge with his pur pose and vision, in full play, she went on In a different tone, as much to her self as to him: \You have labored to make yourself master of a mighty or ganization. Yog,did not care for.the non-essentials. You wanted the reality “Oh, ob, o h!\ she repeated after him. \Oh what, please?\ \Oh nothing!” he snld. It was quite comprehensible to him how well equipped she wae te take care of her self on such an adventure. \Precisely when you come to think it over!\ she concluded. \TVhat interested you most? W hat was the big lesson of all your journey ing?\ he asked, ready to play the lis tener. “Being born and bred on a frontier, of an ancestry that was bom and bred on a frontier, why, frontiers Interested me most,\ ebe said. “I collected im pressions of frontiers as some people ke collect pictures. I found them all alike , —stupid, just stupid! Oh, so stupid!\ Her frown grew with tho repetition of the word; her fingers closed In on her palm In vexation. He recollected that he had seen her like this two or three bring to an even sharpness! Every , ^ ^ Tlr' when he had found regiment a unit of a harmonious whole, 1 e out urs 8 V 8 — of shaping results.\ “Yes, the results, the power! exclaimed. “Fifteen hundred regiments!\ she continued thoughtfully, looking at a given point rather than at him. “Every regiment a blade which you would knowing how to screen itself from fire and give fire as long as bidden, in answer to your will if war comes! That is what you live and plan for, isn’t it?” ; “Yes, exactly! Yee, you have It!” ] he said. His shoulders stiffened as he thrilled at seeing a picture of him self, as he Wanted to see himself, done in bold strokes. It assured him that not only had his own mind grovn be- I yond what were to him the narrow as sociations of Ijis old La Tir days, but that hers had grown, too. “And you— j what have you been doing all these years?” ho asked. “Living the life of a woman on a country estate,\ she replied. \Since you made a rule that no Gray ofheera should cross the frontier we have been most entertaining. He imagined that the small fist pressed against the table edge could deliver a stinging blow. \As stupid as it is for neighbors to quarrel! It put me at war with all frontiers.” \Apparently he said. She withdrew her fist from the table, dropped the opened hand over the other on her knee, her body relaxing, her wrath passing into a kind of shamefacedness and then into a soft, prolonged laugh. \I laugh at myself, a t my own incon- I sistency,\ she said. \I waa warlike against w>ar. At all events, i£ there is | anything to make a teacher of peace ; lose her temper it Is the folly of ! frontiers.” \Yes?\ he exclaimed. \Yee? Go ; a little lonelier, having only the Brown | o n ' •^•nd thought: \I'm really! officers to tea. Did you really find It so bad for discipline in your own caee?\ she concluded with playful solemnity. \One cannot consider Individual cases in a general order,\ he explained. \And remember, the Browns made the ruling first. You see, every year means a tightening—yes, a tightening, as arms and armies grow more compli cated and the maintaining of staff secrets more important. And you have been all the time a t La Tlr, truly?\ he asked, changing the subject He was convinced that she had acquired some thing that could not be gained on the outskirts of a provincial town. “No. I have traveled. I have been quite around the world.\ \You have!” This explained much. “How I envy you! That is a privilege I shall not know until I am superannu ated.” While he should remain chief of staff he must be literally a prisoner in his own country. \Yes I should eay it. was splendid! Splendid—yes, indeed!\ Snappy little nods of the head being unequal to ex pressing the joy of the memories that her exclamation evoked, she clasped her hands over her knees and swung back and forth in the ecstasy of seven teen. \Splendid! I should say eo!” She nestled the curling tip of her tongue against her teeth, as if the recollection must also be tasted. “Splendid, enchanting, enlightening, stupendous and wickedly expensive! Another girl and I did it all on our own.\ \O-oh!” he exclaimed. having a very good time.\ \You see, I came home from my tour with an idea—an Idea for a life occu pation just as engrossing as yours,\ she went on, “and opposed to yours. I saw there was no use of working with the grown-up folks. They must be left to The Hague conferences and the peace societies. But children'are quite alike the world over. You can plant thoughts in the young that will take root and grow as they grow.\ \Patriotism for instance,\ he ob served narrowly. “No, the follies of martial patriot ism! The wickedness of war, which is the product of martial patriotism !\ The follies of patriotism! This was the red flag of anarchy to him. He started to speak, flushing angrily, but held his tongue and only emitted a \whew!\ in good-humored wonder. (To Be Continued). The Economy Grocer G roceries - M eat -[Grain Staple and Fancy Groceries Feed, Hay’ Straw, and Flour Geo. A. Dunster Bedell & Raynor St. Te!.-453J ‘‘Tower of Brooklyn ““PRO M P T A N D EFFICIENT SERVICE” Manufacturers of Tthe “National Brand\ typewriter ribbons and carbon papers, (non smutting.) Agents for Shaw, Walker’s wood and steel filing cabinets and supplies. Restaurants and hotels^supplied with napkins, tooth- v picks, paper towels and toilet paper. Write us for^prices, you'will save money. 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