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CHAPTBR I-vAt their home on the fron¬ tier ttatwaee the Browne snd Orar* Mar- \e QaXiea* ee* ber mother., emtertalnlnc Colonel WeeterUnc of tbe Ortrre, see Cap¬ tain LAnatron, ataS IntalUcenee ofleer of the Browne. InJuiM br a faU la hla aaao-
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CHAPTBR n—Ton yeara later. "Vl terllnc nominal rloa but raal ehlef ¦taff. ratnforeae BomOi La Ttr, nadltAtaa ea war, aad apecnlatM on the oompara- Ure a«aa of hlnMMU and Marta. who U rlattiaa ia the Otwr cairftaL
CHAPTKB m—Weatorllnv ealla on Marta. She tella him of her teaching ebUdren  the foUiea  of war aad  martial
Ktrlotiam. ben him to prerent war while la ehlef of etaff, and pradleta that If he makee war acalnat the Biowna he will not win.
CHAPTER IV—On the mareb with the SSd of the Browna Prlrate Stranaky, aaar¬ chlat. decrtea war and played-out patriot- iam and la plaoed under arreat. Colonel Lanatron orerhearinc, bega him off aaylOK the anarchlat will fl«ht well when en- rajted and la "all man."
CHAPTER V—Lanatron ealla on Marta at her bome. He UUw with FeUar, the rardener. Marta telle I^anatrom that ahe ttcllevea Feller to be a apy. Lanatron It U true.
T'orglre me, Oustare!" be begKod. "Forsire the moat brutal of all In¬ juries—tbat which wounds a friend's ¦enalbllitiea."
"Why, there Is nothing I could erer here to forgive you, Lanny," he saJd, returning Lanstron's presaure while for an Instant his quickening muscles gave bim a aoldieriy erectness. Then his attitude changed to one of doubt and Inquiry. "And you found out that I was not deaf when you had that fall on the terrace?" he asked, turning to Marta. "That is how you happened to get the whole story? Tell me, hon¬ estly!"
"Yes."
"You saw so much more of me than the others, Miss Galland," he said with a charming bow, "and you are so quick to observe. I am sorry"—he pauaed with head down for an instant—"very sorry to have deceived you."
"But you are still a dtaf gardener to rs\p," Buld Marta, finding consolation in pleasing him.
"Eh? Eh?" He put hia hand to his ear as he resumed his stoop. "Yes, yes," he added, as a deaf man will when understanding of a remark which he failed at flrst to catch comes to hira in an echo. "Yes, the gardener has no past," he declared in the gontio old {rardener's voice, "when all tlie flow- era die every year and he thinks only of next year's blossoms—of the fu¬ ture!"
Now the air of the room seemed to be stifling him, that of the roofless world of tho garden calling him. The bent figure disappeared around a turn ill the path and they listened without moving until tho soiind of his slow, dragging footfalls had diea away.
'^'hen he ia serving those of his own social station I can see how It would be easier for him not to have me know," said Marta. "Sensitive, proud and intense—" and a look of horror appeared in her eyes. "Aa ho came across the room his face was transformed. I imagine it was like that of a man giving no quarter in a bayonet charge!"
Feller had won the day for himself where a friend's pleas might have failed. This was as It should be, Lan¬ stron thought.
"The right view—the view that you were bound to take!" he eaid.
"And yet, I don't know your plans for him. Lanny. There Is another thing to consider," she replied, with an ab¬ rupt change of tone.   "But first let ua
leave Feller's quarters. We are In¬ truders here."
"A man playing deaf; a secret tele¬ phone Installed on our premises with¬ out our consenti—this is ail I know so far," said Marta, seated opposite Luastrou at one end ot the circular seat In the arbor of Mercury.
"Of course, with our 3,000,000 against their 5,000,000, the Grays will take tbe offensive," he said. "For us, the defensive. La Tir ia in an angle. It does not belong in the permanent tactical line of our defenses. Never¬ theless, there will be hard fighting here. The Browns will fall back step by step, aud we mean, wilh relatively small cost to ourselves. *o make the pay a heavy price for each step
Just as heavy as we can."
"You need not use euphonious terms," she said without lifting her lashes or any movement except a quick, nervous gesture of her free hand. "What you mean is tbat you will kill aa many as possible of the Orays, len't Is? And if you could kill five for every man you lost, that would be splendid, wouldn't it?"
"I don't think of it ee splendid. There is nothing splendid about war," be ob¬ jected; "not to me, Marta."
"And after you have made them p«7 five to one or ten to one in hunuui lives for the tangent, what then? Qo on! I want to look at war tae* to (aee, free of tha wlU-o'-the-wisp glamour that draws on aoldiers."
"We fail back to onr first line of do- dense, flghtins all tbo tima. Tbo Orsora occupy La Tir, wblcb wMl bo out of tbe raacb of our suns. Tour boos* will IP tossfir bf la AMffM*. ¦»« "• >»i*»«i to know tbat Wostoiilns mesas to ssaka it bis boadquMPtarf.";
tsrs!" sbe repos,to<L Witb a,sti^.t|a(^ brousht ber up oroet. sleitj ebslMi«- las, bar lasbss aMtad«K:«M '•a'UwL
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«...d.( t>t;bu>i....g uaa said at parting that he should see her if war came. This corroborated Lanstron's ioforma¬ tion. One side wanted a spy in the garden; tbo other a general in the house. Waa she expected to make a choice? He bad ceased to bo Lanny. He personified war. Westerling per¬ sonified war. "I suppose you have spies under his very nose—In bis very staff offices?" she asked.
"And probably be has in ours," said Lanstron, "though we do our best to prevent It."
"What a pretty example of trust among civilized nations!" she ex¬ claimed. "You aey that Westerling. who cOmnuinds the killing on bis side, will be In no danger. And, Lanny, are you a person of such distinction in the business of killing that you also will be out of danger?"
She did not see, as her eyes poured her hot indignation into his, that hie maimed hand was twitching or how he bit his lips and flushe.d before he re¬ plied:
"Elach one goes where he Is sent, link by link, down from the chief of staff. Only in this way can you have that solidarity, that harmonious effi¬ ciency whicb means victory."
"An autocracy, a tyranny over the lives of all the adult males in countries that boast of tbe ballot and self-gov¬ erning institutions!" she put In.
"But I hope," he went on, with the quickening pulse and eager smile that used to greet a call from Feller to "set things going" in their cadet days, "that I may take out a squadron of dirigibles. After all this spy business, that would be to my taste."
"And if you caught a regiment in close formation with a shower of bombs, that would be positively heav¬ enly, wouldn't it?" She bent nearer to him, ber eyee flaming demand and satire.
"No! War—necessary, horrible, hell¬ ish!" he replied. Something in her seemed to draw out the brutal truth ahe had asked for In place of euphoni¬ ous terms.
"When I became chief of intefligeiico I found that an underground wire liad been laid to the castle from the Eighth division headquarters, which will bo our general staff headquarters in time of war. The purpose was the same as now, but abandoned as chimerical. All that was necessary waa to install the instrument, which Feller did. I, too, saw the plan as chimerical, yet it was a chance—the one out of a thousand. If it should liappen to succeed we should play with our cards concealed and theirs on the table.
"The rest of Feller's part you have guessed already," he concluded. "You can see how a deaf, inoffensive old gardener would hardly aeem to know a Gray soldier from a Brown; how it might no more occur to Westerling to eend him away than the family dog or cat; how he might retain his quarters in the tower; how ho could judge the atmosphere of the staff, whether elated or depressed, pick up scraps of conver¬ sation, and, as a trained offlcer, know the value of what he heard and report it over the plione to Partow's head- quangerB."
"But what about the aeroplanes?" she asked. "I thought you were to de¬ pend on tbem for scouting."
"We shall use them, but they are the least tried of all the new re- eources," he said. "A Gray aeroplane may cut a Brown aeroplane down be¬ fore it returns with the news we want. At most, when the aviator may descend low enough for accurate observation be can see only what is actually being done. Feller would know Westeriing's plans before they were even in the flrst steps of execution. This"—play¬ ing the "thought happily—"this would be the ideal arrangement, while our planes and dirigibles were kept over our lines to strike down theirs. And, Marta, that le all," be concluded.
"If there is war, the moment that Feller's ruse is discovered he will be sho''. v.a a spy?" she asked.
"I warned him of that,' said Lan¬ stron. "He is a soldier, with a sol¬ dier's fatalism. He sees no more dan¬ der In thie than lu commanding a bat¬ tery In a crisis."
"Suppose that the Gi^ys wtn? Sup¬ pose tbat La Tir is permanently theirs?"
"They shall not win! They must not!" Lanstron exclaimed, his tone as rigid as Westeriing's toward her sec¬ ond propbecy;
"Yet if tbey should win snd Wester ling finds that I have been party t( tbis treachery, as I shall bo now tbai I am in the secret, tbink of ttae posi¬ tion of my mother and myself 1" sbe continued. "Hss tbat occurred to you, s friend, in maldng our property, our gsrdsa, our neutrality, which Is qur only defense, a (actor in one of your pisns witbottt our psnaisslon?"
Her eyos. blue-black in appeal snd rsprosch. rsvealed tbo depths of a wound ss tbey bad oa tbs terracs steps bstors loaebisoa. wbsa be bad boon spprlasd of a (09j[las lor bin br seslag it dead oadsr bis blow. Tbo logic ol tAAtl^tmt at. ia«sOl«Mo« wltb«f«L He oadscstood bow a (rlaadsblp to ber wvu IjdssS. mmffasraA tbaa a^rioUr VmbSm. Ho TfUtMA tt& siakio ol what ba Mad deao aow tbat ba was
tree of professional Influences.
"You are right. Marta!" he replied. "It was beastly of me—there Is no ex¬ cuse."
He looked around to see an orderly from the nearest military wireless sta¬ tion.
"I was told It was. urgent, sir," said the orderly, in excuse for his Intrusion, ss he iwssed s telegram to Lanstron.
Immediately Lanstron felt the touch of the paj>er his features seemed to take on a mask that concealed hia thought as be read:
"Take night express. Come direct from station to me.    Partow."
This meant that he would be ex¬ pected at Partow's office st eight the next morning. He wrote his answer; the orderly saluted and departed at a rapid pace; and then, aa a matter of habit of the same kind that makes some men wipe their pens when lay¬ ing them down, he stnick a match and set flre to one comer of the paper, which burned to his liugerH' ends be¬ fore be tossed the charred remains away. Marts imagined what he would be like with the havoc of war raging around blm—all self-possession and mastery; but actually he was trying to reassure himself that he ought not to feel petulant over a holiday cut short.
"I shall have to go at once," he said. "Marta, if there were to be war very soon—within a week or two weeks— what would be your attitude about Fel¬ ler's remaining?"
"To carry out his plan, you mean?" ' "Yes."
There was a perceptible pause on her part.
"Let him stay," she answered, "I shall have time to decide even after war begins."
"But Instantly war begins you must go!" he declared urgently.
"You forget a precedent," she re¬ minded bim. "The Galland women have never deserted the Galland house!"
"I know the precedent. But this time tho house will be in the thick of the flghting."
"It has been in the thick of the fight¬ ing before," she said, with a gesture of impatience.
".Marta, you will promise not to re¬ main?" he urged.
"Isn't that my affair?" she asked. •'Aren't you willing to leave even that to me after all you have been telling how you are to make a redoubt of our lawn, inviting the shells of the enemy into our drawing-room?"
What could he say? Only call up from the dojiths the two paesions of his life in an outburst, with all the force of his nature in play.
1 lore this soli, my country's soil, ours by right—and I lovo yon! I would bo true to both!"
Tove! What mockery to mention that now!" ahe cried chokingly. "It's monstrous!"
"I—I—" He wss making an effort to keep his nerves nnder controL
Thia time the stiffening elbow failed. With a lurching abruptness he swung his right hand around and seised the wrist of that trembling. Injured hand that would not be still. She could not fail to no::e the movement, and the sight was a magic that stnick anger out of her.
"Lanny, I am hurting you!" she cried miserably.
"A little," he said, will finally domi¬ nant over Its servant, and he was smiling as when, half stunned and In agony—and ashamed of the fact—he bad risen from the debris of cloth and twisted braces. "It's all right," he con¬ cluded.
She threw back her arms, her head raised, with a certain abandon as if she would bare her heart.
"Lanny, there have been moments when I would have liked to fly to your arms. There havo been moments wben I have had the call that comes to every woman In answer to a desire. Yet I was not ready. When I really go it must be in a flame, in answer to your fiame!"
"You mean—I—"
But If the fiame were about to burst forth she smothered it in the spark.
"And all this has upset me," she went on incoherently. "We've both been cruel without meaning to be, and we're in the shadow of a nightmare; and next time you come perhaps all the war talk will be over and—ob, this is enough for today!"
She turned quickly in veritable fiight and hurried toward the house.
"If it ever comes," she called, "I'll let you know! I'll fly to you in a chariot of flre bearing my flame—-I am
that bold, that brazen, that reckless! For 1 am hot an old maid, yet. They've moved the age limit up to thirty. But you can't drill love into me as you drill discipline into armies—no, no more than I can argue peace into armies!"
For a while, motionless, Lanstron watched the point where she had dis¬ appeared.
CHAPTER Vll.
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