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              THE NASSAU POST: FREEPORT, N.Y, THURSDAY,  OCTOBER 29,  1914
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EDERICK PALMER
CHAPTER I—At their home on ths fron¬ tier between the BrowiiB and Graya Mar¬ ts Galland and her mother, ent<^rtalnlnir Colonel WeaterllnK of the Grays, see Cap¬ tain Lanatron. iXaff IntelHsenco ofHcer of tho Browns, Injured by a fall in iila aero¬ plane.
CHAPTKR II—Ten years later. "Wes- terllns, nominal vice but real phlpt ot ¦taff, relnforotn South La Ttr, meditates on war, and gpeculatea on the compara- tlvo nfea of himself and Marts^ who U vUltiriK In the Gray capital.
the soldiers of tlie 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.
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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 worlted out frora the very day of the prophecy, liad he heard the re¬ mark of a great manufacturer to the banker at his side in a passing limous- ine> "There goes the greatest captain of industry of us all!" Westerling 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 market prices; and also for the ecientists, doctors, en¬ gineers, and men of other professions, who spoke of things In books which ho did not understand. Reading hooka was one of the faults of Turcas, his as¬ sistant. No bookish eoldier. be knew, had ever been a great general. He re¬ sented the gfowing power of these leaders of the civil world, taking dis¬ tinction away from the military, even when, aa 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 wae a gentleman, while he could never think of a man la business as one.
All the faces in the utreet 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 eu- IxTlors. Of lato, their clatter had been about the extra taxes for the recent in¬ crease of the standing forces by an¬ othor corps. Tlio public was boviao with a parrot's head. Yet it did not admire tho toiling ox, but tho eagle and the lion."
As his car came to the park his eyes lighted at sight of ono of the dividends —one feature of urban lifo that ever gave him a thrill. A battalion of tlie l^Sth, which ho had ordered that after¬ noon to tho very garrison at South La Tir that ho had onco commanded, was inarching through the main avenue. Youtlie all, of twenty-one or two, they wero in a muddy-grayish uniform which was the color of the plain as seou from the veranda of the Galland house. Where tiiese came from were other boys £;ro^ying up to t.ake their places. Tho mothers of the nation were doing their duty. All the land was a breeding-ground for the divi¬ dends of Hedworth Westerling.
At tho 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, tlrftd 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 waa not dependent j ~y ^^^ beatlnV about the bush. "-The
CHAPTER ill.
The Second Prophecy. Marta, when she had received the note from Westerling, 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 eeventeen. His reason for wanting to see her he had said was to "renew an old acquaintancei" He could have lit¬ tle Interest in her, and her Interest In him was that he was head of the Gray army. His work had intimate relation *to that which the Marta of twenty- seven, a Marta with a mission, had set for herself.
A page came to tell Westerling 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 aeked.
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 tea. "No, just riglit!" 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; ho liked slim, suppiti women. Yes, she was twenty-seven, 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 bo at 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- Bcioua of an offense to her seneibili- tics, and he was wholly conscious that tho suggestion, bringing his faculties up sharply, had the pleasure of a novel sensation.
"How fast you have gone ahead!" sho eaid. "That little prophecy of mine did come true. You are chief of staff!"
After a smile of satisfaction he cor¬ rected her.
"Not quite; vice-clilef—the right- hancj man of His Excellency. I am a buffer between him and the heads of divisions. This has led to the errone¬ ous assumption which I cannot tco forcibly deny—"
He was proceeding with the phrase¬ ology habitual whenever men or wom¬ en, to flatter hira, had Intimated that they realized that he was the actual I head  of  the  army.    Hie  Excellency, with the prestige of a career, must be kept Boporlfically enjoying the forms j of authority.    To arouse his jealousy j might    curtail    Westeriing's    actual | power. I
"Yes, yes!" breathed Marta softly, I arching her eyebrows a trifle as she I would when looking all around and j through a thing or when she -found
on a mixture of regulars am$^ volun' teers, but on universal conscription that brought every able-bodied man upder 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 signlflcance. 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 tbat Marta Oalland bad said would make him chief of staff.
Wasn't war tbe real cure for the general unrest T Wasn't tbe nation crowlar stale from tbe loos peace? He was ready (or war now that he had be¬ come Tice-chlef, when the retirement of His Excellency, unable to bear the weight o( bis years and decorations in the Held, would make blm tbe supreme commander. One ambition gained, he beard tbe appeal of another; to lire to see the guns and rifles tbat bad flred only blank cartridges in practice pourini; out shells and bullets, aad all tbe battalions that bad played at sham war iu maneuvers engaged In real war, under hia direction. He saw bis columns sweeping up the slopes ot tbe Brown range. Victory waa certain. He would be the flrst to lead a great mod¬ em army against a creat modem army; his place aa the master ot mod- •rn tBotJng fecuro. in tbe minds of ill
i little frown disappeared and she smiled understandingly. "You know I'm not a perfect goose 1" she added.
"Had you been made cblef 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 tbe power to exercise was by proxy."
This downright frankness was an¬ other reflection of the old days before be was at the apex of ths pyramid. Now it was so unusual In bis experi¬ ence aa to be almoat a shock. On tbe point ot arguing, be caught a mis- cblevous, delightful "Isn't tbat so?" in her eyes, and replied:
"Yes, I shouldn't wonder it it were!"
Wby shouldn't be admit tbe truth to tbe one ifbo bad ning tbe bell ot bis aecret ambition long ago by recognis¬ ing in bim tbe ability to reach bis goal? He manrelled at ber grasp ot tbe situation.
"It wasn't so very bard to say, was it?" she aaked happily. In response to his smile. Then, ber gift of putting berselt in another's place, while she strove to look at things with bis pur¬ pose and vision, in full play, sbe went on in a different tone, as miicb to her¬ self as to blm: "You bave labored to make yourself master of a migbty or¬ ganisation. Yopi^dld not care tor.tbe Don-essentiala. Toa wanted tbo reality
of shaping results."
"Yes, the resulte, the power!" he exclaimed.
"Fifteen hundred regiments!" she continued thoughtfully, looking at a given point rather than at him. "Every regiment a blade which you would bring to an even sharpness! Every regiment a unit of a harmonious whole, knowing how to screen Itself from flre 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 grov.n be¬ yond what were to him the narrow ae- Boclations of his old La Tir days, but that hers had grown, too. "And you— what have you been doing ail these years?" ho aslied.
"Living the life of a woman on a country estate," she replied. "Since you made a rule that no Gray ofl.cers should cross the frontier we have been a little lonelier, having only the Brown ofBcers to tea. Did you really find It so bad for discipline In your own caee?" she concluded wltli 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 at La Tir, truly?" he asked, changing the subject. He waa convinced that she had acquired some¬ thing that couid not be gained on the outskirts of a provincial town.
"No. I have traveled. I have been j quite around the world." i
"You have!" This explained much, i "How I envy you! That is a privilege I I shall not know until I am superannu-: ated." While he should remain chief I of staff he must be literally a prisoner I in his own country. I
"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 tlio 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 wicla-dly expensive! Another girl and I did it all on our own."
"0-oh!" he exclaimed.
"Ob, ob, oh!" she repeated after him. "Oh, what, please?"
"Oh, nothing!" he said. It was quite comprehensible to him how well equipped she wae tT> take care of her¬ self on such an adventure.
"Precisely, when you come to think it over!" she concluded.
"What interested you most? What 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 lnteres"ted me most," ehe said. "I collected im¬ pressions of frontiers as some people I collect pictures. I found them all alike j —stupid, just stupid! Oh, so stupid!" ' Her frown grew with tho repetition of j the word; her fingers closed in on her ! palm In vexation. He recollected that j he had seen her like this two or three times at La Tir, when he had found '¦ the outbursts aost entertaining. He imagined that tho small fist pressed I against the table edge could deliver a I stinging blow. "As stupid as it is for I neighbors to quarrel! It put me at I war with all frontiers." !     "Apparently," he said.
She withdrew her fist from the table, ; dropped the opened hand over tho other on her knee, her body relaxing, i her wrath passing into a kind of , shamefacedness and then into a soft, ' prolonged laugh. |
"I laugh at myself, at my own incon- i sistency," she said. "I was warlike i against Vfar. At all events, if there is ' anything to make a teacher of peace | lose her temper it Is the folly of ! frontiers." |
"Yes?" he exclaimed. "Yee? Go | on!" And he thought: "I'm really ! 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," j 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- sei-ved narrowly.
"No, the follies of martial patriot¬ ism! The wickedness of war, which is the product of martial patriotism!" i
The follies of patriotism!    This was | the red flag of anarchy to him.    He j started to speak, fluehing angrily   but i held  his  tongue  and  only  emitted  a "whew!" in good-humored wonder.       i
(To  Be  Continued).
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