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EDERkCK PALMER
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SYNOPSIS
CHAPTER I At their home on the
frontier between the Browns and
Grays Marta Galland and her mother,
entertaining Colonel Westerling of
the Grays, see Captain Lanstron, staff
intelligence officer of the Browns, in
jured by a fall in his aeroplane.
CHAPTER II Ten years later.
Westerling, nominal vice but real
chief of staff, reinforces South La Tir,
meditates on war, and speculates on
the comparative ages of himself and
Marta, who is visiting in the Gray
Capital. ' . ;
CHAPTER III Westerling calls on
Marta. She tells him of her teach
ing children the follies of war and
martial patriotism, begs him to pre
vent war while he is chief of staff,
and predicts , that if he makes war
against the Browns he will hot win.
CHAPTER IV On the march with
the 53rd of the Browns Private
Stransky, anarchist, decries war and
played-out patrotism and is placed
under arrest. Colonel Lanstron over
hearng, begs him off saying the an
archist will fight well when enraged
and is "all man."
CHAPTER V Lanstron calls on
Marta at her home. He talks with
Feller, the gardner. Marta tells Lan
strom that she believes Feller to be a
spy. Lanstron conffesses it is true.
CHAPTER VI Lanstron shows
Marta a telephone which Feller has
concealed in a secret passage under
the tower for use to benefit the
Browns m war emergencies, pointing
out its value as being in the center of
the fighting zone in case of war.
Marta consents for it and Feller to
remain for the present Lanstron de
clares his love for Marta. r
CHAPTER VII Westerling and
the Gray premier plan to use a tri--vial
international affair, to forment
warlike patrotism in army and peo
ple and striking before declaring war.
Partow, Brown chief of staff, and
Lanstron, made vice, discuss the
trouble, and the Brown defenses. Par
tow reveals 4hia plans to Lanstron.
CHAFTE&- Vnii-Al thtf frontier
the two armies lie crouched '. for at
tack and defense.. In the town with
the non-combatants fleeing from the
danger zone. Martha hears her child
pupils recite the peace path.
CHAPTER IX The Gray army
crosses the boarder line and attacks.
The Browns check them. Artilery,
infantry, areoplane's, dirigibles en
gage. Stansky, rising, to make the
anarchist speech of his life, draws the
Gray artilery fire. Nicked by a shrap
nel splinter he goes Berserk and
fights "all a man."
CHAPTER X Martha " has her
first glimpse of war in its modern,
cold, scientific, murderous brutality.
Sh allows the telephone to remain.
CHAPTER XI The Browns fall
back to the Galland house. Stransky
forages. Martha sees a night attack.
CHAPTER XII The Grays attack
in force. The call of the fight too
strong for Feller, he leaves his secft
telephone and goes back to his guns.
Hand to hand fighting. The Browns
fall back again.
"This Is a little different," ho began.
. She interrupted him.
"But the law of the Grays 1b that
homes should be left undisturbed, isn't
it? At least, It is the law of civiliza
tion. I believe you profess, too, to pro
tect property, do you not?"
"Why, yes!" he agreed. He wished
that he could get a little respite from
the steady fire of her eyes. It was em
barrassing and. as confusing as the
white light of an impracticable logic.
"In that case, please place a guard
around our house lest some more of
your soldiers get out of control," she
went on. v
"l ean do that, yes," he said. "But
we are to make this a staff headquar
ters and must start at once to put the
house in readiness." .
"General Westerllng's headquar
ters?" she inquired.
, He parried the question with a
frown. Staff -officers never give infor
mation. They receive Information and
transmit orders.
"I know General Westerling. . You
will tell him that my mother, Mrs. Gal
land, and our maid and myself are
very tired from the entertainment he
has given us, unasked, and we need
'sleep to-night So you will leave us
until morning and that door, sir, is the
one out into the grounds."
The staff-officer bowed and went out
by that door, glad to get away from
Marta's eyes. HIa inspection of the
premises with a view to plans for staff
accommodation could wait' Wester
ling would not be here for two days
at leaBt. , . ' - -. .
"Whew I What energy she nasi" he
.thought. J'LflfliejC. had anybody make
me feel so contemptibly' unUke" a gen
tleman in my life."
Yet Marta, returning to the hall, had
to steady herself in a dizzy moment
against the wall. Complete reaction
had come. She craved sleep as if it
were the one true, real thing in the
world. She craved sleep for the clarity
of mind that comes with the morning
light. In the haziness of fleecy thought,
as slumber drew its soft clouds
around her, her last conscious visions
were the pleasant ones rising, free of
a background of horror; of Feller's
smile when he went back to his auto
matic for good; of Dellarme'e smile as
he was dying; of Stransky's smile as
Minna gave him hope; and of Hugo's
face as he uttered his flute-like cry of
protest in her ears were the haunt
ing calmness and contained force of
Lanstron's voice over the telephone.
She was pleased to think that she had
not lost her temper in her talk with
the etaff-offlcer. No, she had not flared
once in indignation. It was as if she
had absorbed , some of Lanny's own
self-control. Lanny would approve of
her in that scene with an officer of the
Grays. And she realized that a change
had come over her a change inex
plicable and telling and she was
tired oh, so tired! It had been ex
hausting work, indeed, for one woman,
though she had been around the world,
making war on two armies.
The general staff-officer of the Grays,
who had tasted Marta's temper on his
first call, when he returned the next
morning did not enter unannounced.
He rang the door-bell.
"I have a message for you from Gen
eral Wetlerling," he said to her. "The
general expresses his deep regret at
the unavoidable damage to your house
and grounds and has directed that
everything possible be done immedi
ately in the way of repairs."
In proof of this the officer called at
tention to a group of service-corps
men who were removing the eand-bags
from the first terrace. Others were
at work in the garden setting uprooted
plants back into the earth. .
. "His Excellency says," continued
the officer, "that, although the house
is so admirably suited for staff pur
poses, we will find another if you de
sire." . ;..
He was too polite and too consid
erate in bis attitude for Marta not to
meet him in the eame spirit,
j "That Is what we should naturally
prefer," and Marta bowed her head in
indecision.
"We should have to begin installing
the telegraph and telephone service on
the lower floor at once," he remarked.
"In fact, all arrangements must' be
made before the general's arrival."
"He has been a guest here before,"
she said remlniscently and detachedly.
Her head dropped lower, In appar
ent disregard of his presence, as she
took counsel with herself. She was
perfectly still, without even the move
ment of an eye-lash. Other considera
tions than any he might suggest, he
subtly understood, held her attention.
They were the criterion by which she
would at length assent or dissent, and
nothing could hurry the Marta of to
day, who yesterday had been a
creature of feverish impulse. .
It seemed a long time that he was
watching that wonderful profile under
the very black hair, soft with the soft
ness of flesh, yet firmly carved. She
lifted her head gradually, her eyes
sweeping past the spot where Del
larme had lain dying, where Feller
had manned the automatic, where
Stran)ty had thrown Pilzer over the
parapet. He saw the glance arrested
and focussed on the flag of the Grays,
which was floating from a staff on the
outskirts of the town, and slowly,
glowingly, the light rlpplVng on its
folds was reflected in her face.
"She is for us! She is a Gray!" he
thought triumphantly. The woman
and the flag! The matter-of-fact staff
officer felt the thrill of sentiment
'"1 think we can arrange it," Marta
announced with a rare smile of assent
"Then I'll go back to town and set
the signal-corps men to work," be
said.
"And when you come you will find
the house at your disposal," she as-
:?rod him.
Except that he was raising hia cap
Instead of saluting, he was conscious
of withdrawing with the deference due
to a superior. -
In place of the smile, after he had
gone, came a frown and a look In her
eyes as if at something , revolting;
then the smile returned, to be suc
ceeded by the frown, which was fol
lowed by an indeterminate shaking of
the head.
CHAPTER XIV.
Tea on the Veranda Again.
It was more irritating than ever for
Mrs. Galland to keep .pace with her
daughter's inconsistencies. Here was
Marta saying coolly:
"'Unto Caesar the things that are
Caesar's! . We have bur property, our
home to protect Perhaps the Grays
nave come to stay for good, so
graciousness is our only weapon. We
cannot fight a whole army single-
handed."
. "You have found that out, Marta!"
isaJiMrs. GaUajal ..
TiT'Dare rour rooms in the baron's
tower and a kitchen stove," Marta pro
ceeded. "With Minna we can make
ourselves very comfortable and leave
the house to the etaff."
"The Gallands in their gardener's
quarters! The staff of the Grays in
ours! Your father will turn in his
grave!" Mrs. Galland exclaimed.
"But, mother, it is not quite agree
able to think of three women living
In the same house with a score of
strange men!" Marta persisted.
"I had not thought of that, Marta.
Of course, it would be abominable!"
agreed Mrs. Galland, promptly capitu
lating where a point of propriety was
involved.
When Marta informed the officer
the same one who had rung the door
bell on his second visit of the family's
decision he appeared shocked at the
idea of eviction that was implied. But,
secretly pleased at the turn of events,
he hastened to apologize for war's
brutal necessities, and Marta's com
plalsance led him to consider himself
something of a diplomatist. Yes, more
than ever he was convinced of the
wisdom of an invader ringing door
bells. Meanwhile, the service-corps men
had continued their work until now
there was no vestige of war in the
grounds that labor could obliterate;
and masons had come to repair the
walls of the house itself and plasterers
to renew the broken ceilings.
All this Marta regarded In a kind
of charmed wonder that an invader
could be so considerate. Her manner
with the officers in charge of prepara
tions had the simplicity and ease
which a woman of twenty-seven, who
is not old-maidleh because she is not
afraid of a single future, may employ
as a serene hostess. She frequently
asked if there were good news.
"Yes," was the uniform reply. An
unexpected setback here or resistance
there, but progress, nevertheless. But
she learned, too, that the first two
days' fighting along the frontier had
cost the Grays fifty thousand casual
ties.
"In order to make an omelet you
must break eggs!" she remarked.
, "Spoken like a true soldier like a
member of fhe staff!" was the reply
; In her constraint and detachmen
they realized her conscious apprecla
tion of the fact that in earlier timet
jher .people had been tor the Browns;
but in her flashes of interest in thr
progress of the war, flashes from a
, woman's unmilitary mind, they judged
that her heart was with the Grays. And
why not? Was it not natural that
.woman with more than her share ol
Intellectual perception should be or
the right side? From her association
It was not to be expected that she
would make an outright declaration ol
apostasy. This would destroy the value
and the attractiveness of her oonver
sion. Reverence for the past, for a
father who had fought for the Browne,
against her own convictions, made her
attitude appear singularly and deli
cately correct.
The war was a week old a week
which had developed other tangents
.and traps than La Tir on the morn
ing that the first installment of Junior
officers came to occupy the tables and
desks. Where the family portraits had
hung in the dining-room were now big
maps dotted with brown and gray
flags. Portable field cabinets with
sectional maps on a large scale were
arranged around the walls of the draw
ing-room. In what had been the loung
ing-room of the old days of Galland
prosperity, the refrain of half a dozen
telegraph instruments made medley
with the clicking of typewriters. Cooks
and helpers were busy in the kitchen
for the staff were to live like gentle
men; they were to have their morning
baths, their comfortable beds, and
regular meals. No twinge of indlgea
tion or of rheumatism from exposure
was to interfere with the working of
their precious intellectual processes,
No detail of assistance would be lack
ing to save any bureaucratic head time
and labor. The bedrooms were appor
tioned according to rank that of the
master awaited the master; the best
servant's bedroom awaited Francois
his valet
When Bouchard, the chief of intelli
gence, who fought the' battle of wits
and spies against Lanstron, came, two
hours before Westerling was due, the
last cf the staff except Westerling and
his personal aide had arrived. Bouch
ard, with his iron-gray hair, bushy eye
brows, 'strong, aquiline nose, and
hawk-like eyes, his mouth hidden by
4 Cflstly mustache, was lean and sat
limine, and he was loyal. No Jealous
thought entered his mind at having to
serve 1 a man younger than himself,
He did not serve a personality; he
.erved a chief of etaff and a proie
jion. The score of words which es
caped him as he looked over the ar
rangements were all of directing critt
clem and bitten off sharply, as if he
regretted that he had to waste breath
In coinnwicnttng even a though!-
Presents
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for your mother, your wife
. . ' 14
styles in stock, with fur or
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any uze-can you think of a
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$1.25
$1.45
daughter will enjoy a pair.
59c 69c $1.00
Night Slippers
MENS 15c and 25c
WOMENS 15c and 25c
Children & Boys 10c
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Christmas
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Men's Slippers
That man of yours that
father of yours that best
young man of yours, would
be delighted with a pair of
slippers a fine gift. We
hope you can come and see
our display.
50c. 59c. 75c. 87c. $1.00 and
on up to $2.00.
.. Men's Felt Slippers
So warm and nice to sit
around the fire with, or to
hike down and build the fire
with. , 50c, 75c, $1.00
Men's Felt Boots
$2.25
WOMEN'S RUBBERS 37c Better than sold elsewhere
MISSES' AND CHILDS' RUBBERS 29c a ?2-56-
MEN'S RUBBERS 59c GRIESINGERS'
Why, it's a fact we sell more Christmas presents
every year people buy useful presents. Whether
Women's Boudoir Slippers
Made of soft kid, or of warm you buy or not, we want you to vis-'t our store
felt, in pretty co'ors your
See the pretty and useful gifts you can find here.
GRIESINGER'S
SPECIAL
Woman Stomach Sufferer
Now Can Eat As She Pleases
What to Give .
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with its gift problem is
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check off one or more of
the names on your list of
those to be remembered
with the notation ' "A"
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sum from one dollar up
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and a home savings bank
will be furnished.
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STODART PIANO
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IpaidonMQA
VALLEY CITY
. (To ba continued) .
Money gets tight the same as brok
ers and bankers, about Christmas
time. ' - i .
Mrs. Louis Nilges is on the sick list.
Mr. Leroy Ames spent several days
the past week with friends in Cleve
land. The bazaar held at the St. Paul's
church last week Wednesday was a
success, everyone present enjoying
the evening.
Mrs. J. A. Sailer and daughter Ma
zie spent several days in Cleveland the
past week visiting relatives.
The injured of the vicinity are im
proving. Mr. Jacob Walter of Cleveland spent
his hunting vacation with Mr. George
Mack. Every day the three would go
hunting, but with no success for Wal
ter until the last day of his vacation,
when suddenly his eye fell upon a
rabbit about three feet in front of
him. He was so terrified at the sight
of the rabbit that he was unable to
shoot it, and had to call to Fred to do
the deed. N
Leo Heof fler of Ashland spent sev
eral days here this week with rela
tives. Mr. Henry Doman died "Dec. 7, aged
76 years. He was buried Thursday by
Rev. George Kuehner from the Zion
church,
A Masonic banquet was held in the
K. O. T. M. hall Thursday evening. It
was reported a grand affair.
The dance held here1 Dec. 3 was a
success. A masquerade ball and oys
ter supper will be given Dec. 16. All
are invited to come and mask. Prizes
will be given.
Mrs. A. V, Schneider was called to
Detroit last Tuesday, her brother,
Paul Nentivig having suddenly died.
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CHRISTMAS CANDIES
CHRISTMAS PRICES
Do you know what that means? It means that
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Come and be convinced.
ALUMINUM SPECIAL
One-fifth off on our aluminum ware for one
week. This will be a good time to secure at least
one or two pieces for yourself or as a present to
a friend.
Cookers were $2.00, now $1.60
Double Boilers were $1.90, now $1.52
. Double Boilers were $1.75, now $1.40
Kettles were $1.00, now 80c.
Sauce Pans were 75c, now 60c.
Sauce Pans were 65c, now 52c.
Sauce Pans were 55c, now 44c
Cake and Pie Tins were 30c, now 24c.
Foote and Hartman
Telephone 2047
West Side Square
Christmas comes but once a year A poet sings, "Oh,' what will the
to make our pocketbooks feel queer. Christmas bring?" Bills, sir, bills.