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** >Lu J. 5 ,-* M'lIEXRY PLAISDEALER, M HENRY, ILL. K *'&-••}: ^ : ; , ;. ;v n : i r TEe Last Shot By FREDERICK PALMER I (OopfrilH, 19M, by Ohartes Serlbaer* Soaa) ik CHAPTER XIX--Continued. Now the automatics and the rifles from the redoubt to which the Browns had fallen back opened fire. So close together were these bullet-ma- chines that the orbit of each one's swing made a spray of only a few yards' breadth over the redoubt, where the Browns' gun-fire had not for a mo­ ment ceased its persistent shelling, with increasingly large and solid tar­ gets of flesh for their practice. The thing for these targets to do, they knew, was to intrench and begin to return the infantry and automatics' Are. Desperately, with the last efTort of courage, they rose in the attempt-- rose into playing hose streams of bul­ lets whose close hiss was a steady un­ dertone between shell bursts. In the garish, jumping light brave officers Impulsively stood up to hearten their commands in their work, and dropped with half-uttered urgings, threats, and oaths on their lips. The bullets from the automatics missing one mark were certain to find another, perhaps four or five in a row, such was their velocity and power of penetration. Where shells made gaps and tore holes in the human mass, the automatics cut with the regularity of the driven teeth of a comb. The men who escaped all the forms of slaughter and staggered on to the ruins of the redoubt, pressed their weight on top of those in the craters or hugged be­ hind the pyramids of debris, and even made breastworks from the bodies of the dead. The more that banked up, the more fruitless the efforts of the of­ ficers to restore order in the frantic medley of shell screams and explosions at a time when & minute seemed an ace. Meanwhile, between them--this vbanked-up force at the charge's end-- and the Brown redoubt with its auto­ matics, the Gray gunners were making a zone of shell bursts in order to give the soldiers time to make their hold of the ground they had gained secure. Through this zone Stransky and his men were to lead the Browns in a counter-attack. •t the very height of the Gray charge, when all the reserves were in, dark objects fell out of the heavens, and where they dropped earth and flesh were mingled in the maceration, like some giant reptile with its ver­ tebrae breaking, gouged and torn and pinioned, the charge stopped, in writh­ ing, throbbing confusion. Those on the outer circle of explosions were thrown against their fellows, who •urged back in another direction from ah explosion in the opposite quarter. From the rear the preBBure weakened; the human hammer was no longer driv­ ing the ram. Blinded by the lightnings and dust, dizzy from concussions and noise, too blank of mind to be sane or insane, the atoms of the bulk of the charge in natural instinct turned from their goal and toward the place whence they had come, with death from all •ides still buffeting them. Staggering­ ly, at first they went, for want of in- ltative in their paralysis; then rapidly, M the law of self-preservation asserted Itself in wild ifnpulse. As sheep driven over a precipice they had advanced; as men they fled. There was no longer any command, no longer any cohesion, except of legs Struggling in and out over the uneven footing of dead and wounded, while they felt another pressure, that of the mass of the Browns in pursuit. Of all those of Fracasse's company whom we know only the judge's son and Jacob Pilzer were alive. Stained with blood and dust, his teeth showing in a grimace of mocking hate of all hu­ mankind, Pllzer's savagery ran free of the restraint of discipline and civilized convention. Striking right and left he forced hl« way out of the region of •hell fire and still kept on. Clubbing his rifle, he struck down one officer who tried to detain him; but another officer, quicker than he, put a revolver bullet through his head. [ *716, not relatively. To-morrow night we press home the, advantage we gained to-night."' "But you have beei each time. You still think that--' "That I mean to win! There is no stopping half-way." "Well, IH still try to tion here," replied the keep me informed." Drugged by his desperate stubborn­ ness, Westerling was believing in his star again when he returned to the library. AH the greater his success for being won against skepticism and fears! He summoned his chiefs of divisions, who came with the news that the Browns had taken the very redoubt from which the head of the Gray charge had started; but there they had stopped. "Of course! Of course they stopped!" exclaimed Westerling. "They are not mad. A few are not going to threw themselves against superior numbers --our superior numbers beaten by our own panic! Lanstron ie not a fool. You'll find the Browns back in their old position, working like beavers to make new defenses in the morning. Meanwhile, we'll get that mob of ours Into sh^pe and find out what made them lose their nerve. To-morrow night we shall have as many more be­ hind them. We. are going to attack again!" The staff exchanged glances of amazement, and Turcas, his dry voice crackling like parchment exclaimed: "Attack again? At the same point?" "Yes--the one place to attack!" said Westerling. "The rest of our line has abundant reserves; a needless num­ ber for anything but the offensive. We'll leave enough to hold and draw off the rest to Epgadir at once." "But their dirigibles! A surprising number of them are over our lines," Bellini, the chief of intelligence, had the temerity to say. "You will send our planes and dirig­ ibles to bring down theirs!" Wester­ ling commanded. "I have--every last one; but they outnumber us!" persisted Bellini. "Even in retreat they can see. The air has cleared so that considerable bodies of troops in motion will be read­ ily discernible from high altitudes. The reason for our failure last night was that they knew our plan of attack." "They knew! They knew, after all our precautions! There is still a leak! You--" Westerling raised his clenched hand threateningly at the chief of in­ telligence, his cheeks purple with rage, his eyes bloodshot But Bellini, with his boyish, small face and round head set close to his shoulders, remained undisturbedly exact. "Yes, there is a leak, and from the staff," he answered. "Until I have found it this army ought to suspend any aggressive--" "I was not asking advice!" inter­ rupted Westerling. "But, I repeat the leak is not neces­ sary to disclose this new movement that you plan. Their air craft will dis­ close it," Bellini concluded. He had done his duty and had nothing more to say. "Dirigibles do not win battles!" Westerling announced. "They are won by getting infantry in possession of po­ sitions and holding them. No matter of we don't surprise the enemy. Haven't the Browns held their line with inferior numbers? If they have, planes and other dirigibles flying Over other positions were sending in word of the same tenor, The chiefs drew around the table and looked into onto another's eyes in the significance of a common thought "It cannot be a said the vice-chief. "Hardly. That is inconceivable of Westerling at this time," Lanstron re­ plied. "The bull charges when wound­ ed. It is clear that he means to make another attack. These troops on the march across country are isolated from any immediate service." It was Lanstron's way to be sug­ gestive; to let ideas develop in coun­ cil and orders follow as out of council. "The chance!" exclaimed some one. "The chance!" others said in the same breath. "The God-given chance for a quick blow! The chance! We attack! We attack!" It was the most natural conception to a military tactician, though any man who made it his own might have builded a reputation on it if he knew how tp get the ear of the press. Their faces were close to Lanstron as they leaned toward him eagerly. He seemed not to see them but to be looking at Partow's chair. In imagination Par- tow wis there in life---Partow with the dome forehead, the pendulous cheeks, the shrewd, kindly eyes. A daring risk, thiB! What would Partow say? Lanstron always asked himself this in a crisis: What would Partow say? "Well, my boy, why are you hesitat­ ing?" Partow demanded. "I don't know that I'd have, taken my long holiday and left you In charge if I'd thought you'd be losing your nerve as you are this minute. Wasn't it part of my plan--my dream--that plan I gave you to read in the vaults, to strike if a chance, this very chance, were to come? Hurry up! Seconds count!" "Yes, a chance to end the killing for good and all!" said Lanstron, coming abruptly out of his silence. "We'll take It and strike hard." The staff bent over the map, Lan­ stron's finger flying from point to point, while ready expert answers to his questions were at his elbow and the wires sang out directions that made a drenched and shivering sol­ diery who had been yielding and hold­ ing and never advancing grow warm with the thought of springing from the mire of trenches to charge the enemy. And one, Gustave Feller, in command of a brigade of field-guns--the mobile guns that could go forward rumbling to the horses' trot--saw his dearly be­ loved batteries swing into a road in the moonlight "La, la, la! The worm will turn!" he clucked. "It's a merry, gambling old world and I'm right fond of it--so full of the unexpected for the Grays! That lead horse is a little lame, but he'll last the night through. Lots of lame things will! Who knows? May­ be we'll be cleaning the mud off our boots on the white posts of the fron­ tier to-morrow! A whole brigade mine! I live! You old brick, Lanny! This time we are going to spank the enemy on the part of his anatomy where spanks are conventionally given. La, la la!" CHAPTER XX. m. Westerling, who had buried his face in his hands in Marta's presence at the thought of failure, must keep the pose of his position before the staff. With chin drawn in and shoulders squared in a sort of petrified military habit, he received the feverish news that grew worse with each brief bulle­ tin. He, the chief of staff; he. Hed- wprth Westerling, the superman, must be a rock in the flood of alarm. When he heard that his human ram was in •eooil he declared that the repulse had been exaggerated--repulses always iwre. With word that a heavy counter­ attack waj turning the retreat into an ungovernable rout, he broke into a storm. He was not beaten; he could be beaten. .""Let our guns cut a few swaths In ie mob!" he cried. "That will stop them from running and bring them back to a sense of duty to their coun­ try." fhe irritating titter of the bell in 3e closet off the library only increased s defiance of facts beyond control. Be went to the long distance with a Vtply to the premier's inquiry ready to JUIb lips. > "We got into the enemy's works but .,.|r»ri temporarily," he said. ' 'Temporarily! what do you mean?" Remanded the premier. , i "I mean that we have only begun to jDttack!" declared Westerling. He liked *hat sentence. It sounded like the fhibboleth of a great leader in a crisis. "I shall assault again to-morrow tright" "Then yoar losses w«r* aot hwvr*" "That la the ei I know what you do not know. I am in touch with the government. Ym, I know--" This brought fresh alarm into face which had become set in grim stoicism by many alarms. If the people were in Ignorance of the losses and, the army in ignorance of the nation's feeling, the officers of the staff were no less in ignorance of what passed aver the long-distance wire between the chief of staff and the premier. "I know what is beet--I alone!" Westerling continued, driving home his point "Tell our commanders to hold. Neither geheral nor man is to budge. They are to stick to the death. Any one who does not I shall hold up to public shame as a poltroon. Who knows but Lanstron's attack may be a council of desperation? The Browns may be worse off than we are. Hold, hold! If we are tired, they are tired. Frequently it takes only an ounce more of resolution to turn the tide of battle. Brigade Live." "Oh, the Murder of It--the Murder," He Breathed. we can hold the rest of ours. That gives us overwhelming forces at En- gadir." "You take all responsibility?" asked Turcas. "I do!" said Westerling firmly. "And we will waste no more time. The pre­ mier supports me. I have decided. We will set the troops In motion." With fierce energy he set to work detaching unite of artillery and in fantry from every part of the line and starting them toward Engadlr. "This means an improvised organi­ zation; it breaks up the machine," said the tactical expert to Turcas when they were alone. "Yes," replied Turcas. "He wanted no advice from us when he was taking counsel of desperation. If he succeeds, success will retrieve all the rest of his errors. We may have a stroke of luck in our favor." • • • • • • • In the headquarters of the Browns, junior officers and clerks reported the words of each bulletin with the relief of men who breathed freely again. The chiefs of divisions wlio were with Lan­ stron alternately sat down and paced the floor, their rcstlcssncsc now that of a happiness too deeply thrilling to be expressed by hilarity. Each fresh detail only confirmed the complete­ ness of. the repuUe as that memorable night in the affairs of the two nations slowly wore on. Shortly before three, Turning the Tables. i Through the door which the 'aide had left open the division chiefs, led by Turcas, filed in. To Westerling they seemed like a procession of ghosts. The features of one were the features of all, graven with the weari­ ness of the machine's treadmill. Their harness held them up. A moving plat­ form under their feet kept their legs moving. They grouped around the great man's desk Bilently, Turcas, his lips a half-opened eeam, his voice that of crinkling parchment acting as spokesman. "The enemy seized his advantage," he said, "when he found that our re­ serves were on the march, out of touch with the wire to headquarters." Westerling forced a smile which he wanted to be a knowing smile. "However, we had not prepared our positions for the defensive," continued that very literal parchment voice. "They began an assault on our left flank first and we've Just had word that they have turned it Nor is that the worst of it. They are pressing at other well-chosen points. They threat­ en to pierce our center;" "Our center!" gibed Westerling. "Yon need rest Our center, where we have the column of last night's attack still concentrated! If anything would convince me that I have to fight this war alone--I--" Westerling choked in irritation. "Yes. The ground is such that it is a tactically safe and advantageous move for Lanstron to make. He strikes at the vitals of our machine." "But what about the remainder of the force that made the charge? What about all our guns concentrated in front of Engadlr?" "I was coming to that. The rout of the assaulting column was much worse than we had supposed. Those who are strong enough cannot be got to re­ form. Many were so exhausted that they dropped in their tracks. Our gune are at this moment in retreat-- or being captured by the rush of the Browns' infantry. Your Excellency, the crisis is sudden. Incredible." "Our wire service has broken down. We cannot communicate with many of our division commanders," put in Bel llni, the chief of intelligence. "Yes, our organization, so dependent on communication, is in danger of dis­ ruption," concluded Turcas. "To avoid disorder, we think it best to retreat across the plain to our own range At the word "retreat" Westerling feprang to his feet, his cheeks purple, the veins of his neck and temples sculptured as he took a threatening step toward the group, which fell back before the physical rage of the man. all except the vice-chief, his mouth a thin, ashy line, who held his own. "You cov.ardu!" Westerling thun­ dered. "Retreat when we have five millions to their three!" "We have not that odds now," replied the parchment voice. "All their men are engaged. They have caught us at a disadvantage, unable to use our num­ bers except in detail in trying to hold Hold, hold! To-morrow will tell a dif­ ferent story! We are going to win yet! Yes, we are going to win!" "It is for you to decide. Your Excel­ lency," said Turcas, slowly and pre­ cisely. "You take the responsibility." "I take the responsibility. I am In command!" replied Westerling in un­ flinching pose. "Yes. Your Excellency." And they filed out of the room, leav­ ing him to his isolation. • • After Marta had learned, over the telephone, from Lanstron of the cer­ tain repulse of the Gray assault, fatigue --sheer physical fatigue such as made soldiers drop dead in slumber on the earth, their packs still on their backs --overcame her. Her work was done. The demands of nature overwhelmed her faculties. She slept with a nervous twitching of her muscles, a restless tossing of her lithe body, until ham­ mers began beating on her temples, beating, beating with the sound of shell burstB, as if to warn her that pun­ ishment for her share in the killing was to be the eternal concussion of battle In her ears. At length she real­ ized that the cannonading was real. Hastening out-of-doors, as her glance swept toward the range she saw bjirsts of Bhrapnel smoke from the guns of the Browns nearer than since the fighting had begun on the main line, and these were directed at bodies of infantry that were in confnsed re­ treat down the slopes, while all traffic on the pass road was moving toward the rear. Impelled by a new appre­ hension she hurried to the tunnel. Lanstron answered her promptly in a voice that had a ring of relief and Joy in place of the tension that had char­ acterized it since the outbreak of the war. "Thanks to you, Marta!" he cried. "Everything goes back to you-- to you came this chance to attack, and we are succeeding at every point! You are the general, you the maker of vic­ tories!" ' "Yes, the general of still more kill­ ing!" she cried in indignation. "Why have you gone on with the slaughter? I did. not help you for this. Why?" No reply came. She poured out more questions, and still no reply. She pressed the button and tried again, but she might as wall have beei over a dead wire. • • * One ittai rather, th6 man who rise at his orders now finding all its sweep against him--Weeterllng, accus­ tomed to have millions of men move;, at his command, found himself, one man out of the millions, still and help­ less while they moved of their own im­ pulses. As news of positions lost came In, he could only grimly repeat, "Hold! Tell them to hold!" fruitlessly, like ad­ jurations to the wind to cease blowing. The bell of the long distance kept ringing unheeded, until at last his aide came to say that the premier must speak either to him or to the vice- chief. Westerling staggered to his feet and with lurching steps went into the closet. There he sank down on the chair in a heap, staring at the tele­ phone mouthpiece. Again the bell rang. Clenching his hands in a rocking ef­ fort he was able to stiffen hie spine once more as he took down the re­ ceiver. To admit,defeat to the pre­ mier--no, he was not ready for that yet "The truth Is out!" said the premier without any break in his voice and with the fatalism of one who never allows himself to blink a fact. "Teleg­ raphers at the front who got out of touch with the staff were still in touch with the capital. Once the reports be­ gan to come, they poured in--decima­ tion of the attacking column, panic and retreat in other portions of the line--chaos!" "It's a lie!" Westerling declared vehemently. "The news has reached the press," the premier proceeded. "Editions are already in the streets." "What! Where is your censorship?" gasped Westerling. "It is helpless, a straw protesting against a current" the premier re­ plied. "A censorship goes back to physical force, as every law does In the end--to the police and the army;* and all, these days, finally to public opinion. After weeks of secrecy, of re­ ported succesees, when nobody really knew what was happening, this sudden disillusioning announcement of the truth has sent the public mad." "It is your business to control the public!" complained Westerling. "With what, now? With a speech or a lullaby? As well could you stop the retreat with your naked hands. My business to control the public, yes, but not unless you win victories. I gave you the soldierB. We have nothing but police here, and I fell you that the pub­ lic is in a mob rage--the whole public, bankers and business and professional men included. I have just ordered the etock exchange and all banks closed." "There's a cure for mobs!" cried Westerling. "Let the police fire a few volleys and they'll behave." "Would that stop the retreat of the army?. We must sue for peace." "Sue for peace! Sue for peace when we have five millions against their three!" "It seems so, as the three millions are winning!" said the premier. "Sue for peace because women go hysterical? Do you suppose that the Browns will listen now when they think they have the advantage? Leave peace to me! Give me forty-eight hours more! I have told our troops to hold and they will hold. I don't mistake cowardly telegraphers' rumors for facts--" "Pardon me a moment" the premier interrupted. "I must answer a local call." So astute a man of affairs as he knew that Westerllng's voice, storm­ ing, breaking, tightening with effort at control, confirmed all reports of dis­ aster. "In fact the crockery is -broken --for you and for me!" said the pre­ mier when he spoke again. His life had been a gamble and the gamble had turned against him in playing for a great prize. There was an admirable stoicism in the way he announced the news he had received from the local call: "The chief of police calls me up to say that the uprising is too vast for him to hold. There Isn't any mutiny, but his men simply have become a part of public opinion. A mob of wom­ en and children is starting for the pal­ ace to ask me what I have done with their husbands, brothers, sons, and fa­ thers. They won't have to break in to find me. I'm very tired. I'm ready. I shall face them from the balcony. Yes, Westerling, you and I have achieved a place In history, and they're far more bitter toward you than me. However, you don't have to come back." "No. I don't have to go back! No, I was not to go back if I failed!" said Westerling dizzily. (TO BBS CONTINUED.) DIVORCED WOMAN STARTS A SCUF CARING FOR SOLDIERS' FEET marchee has been reduced to an Insig­ nificant proportion. The analogous Military Surgeons Have Given Consid­ erable Thought to This Most Important Subject. when the firing had died after the Brown pursuit had stopped, a wireless i on in face of--" from a dlrlglbW flying over the tron | "I teU yon we retreat! Every year at the French military maneuvers, in spite of the fact that the military boot is chosen a trifle large to avoid injuring the feet in the first few days' marching a large num­ ber of soldiers suffer from blisters and chafing, which compel them to go on the sick list, and the same would doubtless be the case in warfare. Doc­ tor Arnould, a military medical officer, having noted the coincidence of these injuries with too great mobility of the foot in the regulation boot suggested, according to the Paris correspondent of the Lancet, the use of a leather thong 75 centimeters long by five in Vi'idth, which in bound round the boot outside, being placed in the hollow of the foot brought over the Instep and crossed in a figure eight backward round the tendon of Achilles, thus im­ mobilizing the foot in the boot and ob­ viating the chafing. In all the regiments in which this method has been adopted the number Wee- j of footsore soldiers after the early German "Fusschoner" contain steel bands, which render the apparatus both more complicated and more costly. Work a Watch Does. Out of sight, out of mind, is par­ ticularly true In regard to the mech­ anism of a watch, and even those interested in mechanical matters sel­ dom consider the amount of work performed by this useful little piece of machinery. Take the balance wheel, for example. In the average watch this vibrates S00 times a min­ ute, 18,000 times each hour, 432,000 times a day and 157,781,000 times • year. As each vibration covers about one and a half revolutions, the shaft on which the balance wheel is mount­ ed makes 236,682,000 revolutions; and, running at tliu lino of a ute, without stopping, it would take 683 days, or nearly two years for the axle of the drive wheel of the locomo­ tive to make as many revolutions as the balance wheel shaft of the watch does in one year, and it would covei a distance of over thirty-nine tiny* around the world, Bride" Refused Sight of Child Pulls Mother-' '"> in-Law's Hair. * Philadelphia.--Mrs. Keith Donald­ son, divorced wife of Keith Donald­ son of this city and New York, and for* merly known throughout society cir­ cles in the South as "the million-dollar bride," was arrested and locked in a cell on charges preferred by her moth­ er-in-law, after a sensational hair-pull­ ing match at the latter's home here. Mrs. Donaldson, who Bald she came to this city several dayB ago, soon aft- A Millionaire fUnole Joe" Cannon was talking 1 day about eduction. 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CARTER'S LITTLE ~ LIVER PILLS are responsible -- they not only give relief^ -- they perma- 4 nentlycure Coa-^ •tipation. Mil^ lions use, them for Biliontncti, ladigeitien, Sick Headache, Sallow Skin. SMALL FILL, SMALL DOSE, SMALL PRICE* Genuine must bear Signature CARTERS ITTLE ABSORBINE f V TBADE MAR* BFG.U.S PAT W 11 reduce inflamed, swollen Joints, Sprains, Bruises, Soft Bunches; Heals Boils, Poll Evil, Quiitor, Fistula, oi any unhealthy sore quickly it li ia a potitire andaqtfc and cermicide. Pleatant to ute; dOM not blister under budifc er (•> mora the b*lr, and yon a> awt ibe bone. >2.00 per battle. Mb* crcd. Book 7 K free. 4IV>ORBlNE, JR., antiseptic liniment for mailt lad Reduces Painful. Swollen Vclnt, Goitre. Went, Strata*. Bruitet. itopt pain and inflammation. Price SI.00 per bottle at dealer* or delivered. Will tell jrou more If you wrto. 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