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• %&$* **" p c - -* ', ?> »5 Kr *fr * Uv ** *^_* «th*?l>*» * m »v j^yw *vfey »<* \ * ^ * 1 ^ * *.t fl) ^ **M r^t---^ ** H * ^ • •^^^^'|^-*^^jt::y^jf^jif^ ĵ-v-^a^jej^y;-'- n*X. ^ : •; ":"'"' &" -'-'"<?a--':*a- ?«- '-» :--:*'^ "»:fj| IliM#:' i£s? The Last Shot BT F R E D E R I C K P A L M E R (Copyright, 1914. by Charles Scnbner'a Son*) CHAPTER XXII--Continued. 'i think we have practically agreed that the two Individuals who were in­ valuable to our cause were Partow and Miss Galland," Lanstron remarked ten­ tatively. He waited for a reply. It was apparent that he was laying a foundation before he went any fur­ ther. "Certainly!" said the vice-chief. "And you!" put in another officer, which brought a chorue of. assent. 'No, not 1--only these two!" Lan- in their stares and grasping at a straw. "Only a panic, as I said. If--" his voice rising hoarsely and catching In rage. "We have a new government, a new premier!" Turcas repeated, with firm, methodical politeness. Westerling looking from one fact to another with filmy eyes, lowered them before Bou­ chard. "There's a room ready for Your Excellency upstairs," Turcas con­ tinued. "The orderly will show you the way." ' Now Westerling graeped the fact He drew himself up in a desperate attempt at dignity; the staff saluted again, and, uncertainly, be followed the orderly, with the aide and valet still in loyal attendance. Two figures were in the doorway: a heavy-set market woman with a fringe of down on her lip and a cadav­ erous, tidily dressed old man, who might have been a superannuated schoolmaster, with a bronze cross won in the war of forty years ago on his breast and his eyes burning with the youthful fire of Grandfather Pragini's. "They got the premier in the capi­ tal. We've come for Westerling! We want to know what he did with our sons! We want to know why he waa beaten!" cried the market woman. "Yes," said the veteran. "We want him to explain his lies. Why did he keep the truth from us? We were ready to fight, but not to be treated like babies. This is the twentieth century!" "We want Westerling! Tell Wes­ terling to come out!" rose impatient shouts behind the two* figures in the doorway. "You are sure that he has one?" whispered Turcas to Westerling's aide. "Yes," was the choking answer-- "yes. It Is better than that"--with a glance toward the mob. "I left my own on the table." "We can't save him! We shall have to let them--" Turcas's voice was drowned by a great roar of cries, with no word ex­ cept "Westerling" distinguishable, that pierced ev6ry crack of the house. A wave of movement starting from the rear drove the veteran and the market woman and a dozen others through HIP doorway toward th° stron replied. "Or, I, too, if you pre-'! that he waa no longer chief of staff, fer. It little matters. The thing is that I am under a promise to both, which I shall respect. He organized and labored for the same purpose that she played the spy. When we sent the troops forward in a counter-attack and pursuit to clear our soil of the Grays; when I stopped them at the frontier--both were according to Par- tow's plan. He had a plan and a dream, this wonderful old mafi who made ue all 6eem primary pupils in the art of war." Could it be that terrible Partow, a stroke of whose pencil had made the Galland house an inferno? Marta wondered as Lanstron read his mes­ sage--the message out of the real heart of the man, throbbing with the power of his great brain. His plan was to hold the Grays to stalemate; to force them to desist after they had battered their battalions to pieces againet the Brown fortifications. His dream was the thing that had hap­ pened--that an opportunity would come to pursue a broken machine in a bold stroke of the offensive. "I would want to be a hero of our people for only one aim, to be able to stop our army at the frontier," he had written. "Then they might drive me forth heaped with obloquy, if they chose. I should like to see the Grays demoralized, beaten, ready to sue for peace, the better to prove my point that we should ask only for what is ours and that our strength was only (or the purpose of holding what is ours. Then we should lay up no leg­ acy df revenge in their hearts. They could never have cause to attack again. Civilization would have ad­ vanced another step." Lanstron continued to read to the amazed staff, for Partow's message 'k had looked far into the future. Then there was a P. S., written after the war had begun, on the evening of the day that Marta had gone from tea on the veranda with Westerling to the telephone, in the impulse of her new purpose. "I begin to believe in that dream," he wrote. "I begin to believe that the chance for the offensive will come. now that my colleague, Miss Galland, in the name of peace has turned prac­ tical. There is nothing like mixing a little practice in your dreams while the world ie still well this side of Utopia, as the head on my old behe­ moth of a body well knows. She had . the right idea with her Bchool. The oath so completely expressed my Ideas--the result of all my thinking-- . that I had a twinge of literary jeal­ ousy. My boy, if you do reach the frontier, in pursuit of a broken army, and you do not keep faith with my dream and with her ideals, then you : will get a lesson that will last you for­ ever at the foot of tfoe Gray range. But I do not think so badly as that of you or of my judgment of men." . "Lanny! Lanny!" The dignity of a staff council could i not restrain Marta. Her emotion must have action. She sprang to his side and seised his hand, her exultation mixed with penitence over the way she had wronged him and Partow. Their self-contained purpose had been the same as hers and they had worked with a soldier's fortitude, while she had worked with whims and impulses. She bent over him with gratitude and praise and a plea for forgiveness in her eyes, submerging the thing which he eought in them. He flushed boy­ ishly In happy embarrassment, inca­ pable of words for an instant; and silently the staff looked on. "And I agree with Partow," Lanstron went on, "that we cannot take the range. The Grays still have numbers equal to ours. It is they, now, who will be singing 'God with us!' with their backs against the wall. With Partow's goes my own appeal to the army and the nation; and I shall keep faith with Partow, with Miss Galland, and with my own ideas, if the govern­ ment orders the army to advance, by resigning as chief of staff--my work finished." to the premier, to the nation, to every regiment of the Browns, to the Grays, to the world. He Bet forth why the Browns, after tasting the courage of, the Grays, should realize that they could not take their range. Partow had not taught him to put himself in other men's places in vain. The boy who had kept up his friendship with engine drivers after he was an officer know how to sink the plummet into human emotions. He reminded the Brown soldiers that there had been a providential answer to the call of "God with us!" he reminded the peo­ ple of the lives that would be lost to no end but to engender hatred; he begged the army and the people not to break faith with that principle of "Not for theirs, but for ours," which had been their strength. "I should lHce you all to sign It--to make it simply the old form of 'the* staff has the honor to report,' " he said finally. There was a hush as he finished-- the hush of a deep impression when one man waits for another to speak. All were looking at him except tho vice-chief, who was still staring at the table as If he had heard nothing. Yet every word was etched on his mind. The man whose name was the symbol of victory to the soldiers, who would be more than ever a hero as the news of his charge with the African Braves traveled along the lines, would go on record to his soldiers as saying that they could not take the Gray range. This was a handicap that the vice- chief did not care to accept; and he knew how to turn a phrase as well as to make a soldierly decision. Ho looked up smilingly to Marta. "I have decided that I had rather not be a Westerling, Miss Galland." he said. "We'll make It unanimous. And you," he burst out to Lanstron-- "you legatee of old Partow; I've al­ ways said that he was the biggest man of our time. He has proved it by catching the spirit of our time and in­ carnating it." Vaguely, in the whirl of hef joy, Marta heard the chorus of assent as the officers sprang to their feet In the elation of being at one with their chief again. Lanstron caught her arm, fear­ ing that she was going to fall, but a burning question rose in her mind to steady her. "Then my 6hame--my sending men to slaughter--my sacrifice was not in vain?" she exclaimed. is strong in what he achieves, not through the gifts he receives or the goods he steals. Indemnity will not raise another blade of wheat in our land. To take It from a beaten man will foster In him the desire to beat his adversary in turn and recover the amount and more. Than we shall have the apprehension of war always in the air, and soon another war and more destruction. Remove the danger of a European cataclysm, and any sum ex­ torted from the Grays becomes paltry beside the wealth that peace will cre­ ate. An Indemnity makes the purpose of the courage of the Grays in their assaults and of the Browns in their re­ sistance that of the burglar and the looter. There is no money value to a human life when it is your own; and our soldiers gave their lives. Do not cheapen their service." "Considering the part that we played at The Hague." observed the foreign "We've Come for Westerling." stairs. Then the sound of a shot was heard overhead. "The man you seek is dead!" said Turcas, stepping in front of the crowd, his features unrelenting in authority. "Now, go back to your work and leave us to ours." "I understand, sir," said the veteran "We've no argument with you." "Yes!" agreed the market woman. "But if you ever lccvr this range alive we shall have one. So, you stay!" Looking at the bronze cross on the veteran's faded coat, the staff saluted; for the cross, though It were hung on rags, wherever It went was entitled by custom to the salute of officers and "present arms" by sentries. M Pi 'J. i ' . w Westerling and his aide and valet. Inquiring their way as strangers, found the new staff headquarters of the Grays established in an army building, where Bouchard had been assigned to trivial duties, back of the Gray range. Ab their former chiej entered a room in the disorder of maps and packing- cases, the staff-officers rose from their work to stand at salute like stone im­ ages, in respect to a field marshal's rank. There was no word of greeting but a telling silence before Turcas spoke. H1B voice had lost Its parch­ ment crinkle and become natural. The blue veins on his bulging temples were a little more pronounced, hiB thin fea­ tures a little more pinched, but other­ wise he was unchanged and he seemed equal to another strain as heavy aB the one he had undergone.. # "We have a new government, a new premier," he said. "The old premier vas killed by a shot from a crowd that Ike was addressing from the balcony of the palace. After this, the capital be­ came quieter. As we get in touch with the divisions, we find the army in bet^ ter shape than we had' feared it would IMU Ttiere is a recovery of spirit, < to our being on our own soiL" replied Westerling, drowning The sea of people packed in the great square of the Brown capital made a roar like the thunder of waves against a breakwater at sight of a white spot on a background of gray stone, which fcas the head of an emi­ nent statesman. "It looke as if our- government would last the week out," the premier chuckled as he turned to his colleagues at the cabinet table. As yet only the brief bulletins whose publication in the newspapers had aroused the public to a frenzy had been received. The cabinet, as eager for details as the press, had remained up, awaiting a fuller official account. "We have a long communfcation in preparation," the staff had telegraphed. "Meanwhile, the following is submit­ ted." "Good heavens! It's not from the army! It's from the grave!" ex­ claimed the premier as he read the first paragraphs of Partow's message. "Of all the concealed dynamite ever!" he gasped as he grasped the full mean­ ing of the document, that piece of news, as staggering as the victory it­ self, that had lain in the staff vaults for years. "Well, we needn't give it out to the press; at least, not until after mature considerafion," he de­ clared when they had reached the end of Partow's appeal. "Now we'll hear what the staff has to say for ltBelf after gratifying the wish of a dead man," he added as a messenger gave him another sheet. "The staff, in loyalty to its dead leader who made victory possible, and in loyalty to the principles of defense for which the army fought, begs to say to the nation--" It was four o'clock In the morning when this dispatch concluded with "We heartily agree with the forego­ ing," and the cabinet read the names of all the genera] staff and the corps and division commanders. Coursing crowds in tHte streets were still shout ing hoarsely and sometimes drunken- ly: "On to the Gray capital! Noth ing can stop us now!" The premier tried to Imagine what a sea of faceb in the great square would look like in a rage. He was between the peo­ ple la a passion for retribution and a headless army that was supposed to charge across the frontier at dawn. "The thing is sheer madness!" he cried. "It's insubordination! I'll have it suppressed! The army must go on to gratify public demand. I'll show the staff that they are not In the saddle. They'll obey 01 •defcp** He tried to get Lanstrlh on the long distance. "Sorry, but the chief has retired," answered the officer on duty sleepily. "In fact, all the rest of the staff have, with orders that they are not to be disturbed before ten." "Tell them that the premier, the head of the government, their com­ mander, Is speaking!" "Yes, sir. The orders not to disturb them are quite positive, and as a ju­ nior I could not do so except by their orders as superiors, The chief, before retiring, "hpwever, repeated to me, in case any inquiry came from you, sir, that there was nothing he could add to the staff's message to the nation and the army. It Is to be given to the soldiers the first thing in the morn­ ing, and he will let you know how they regard it." "Confound these machine minds that spring their surprises as fully execut­ ed plans!" exclaimed the premier. "It's true--Partow and the staff hSve covered everything--met every argu- | ment There is nothing more for them to Bay," said the foreign minister. "But what about the indemnity?" demanded the finance minister. He was thinking of yictory in the form of piles of gold in the treasury. This question, too, was answered. "War hasrnever brought prosperity," Partow had written. "Its purpose is to destroy, apd destruction can never be construction. The conclusion of a war has often assured & period of "Good Heavens! It's Not From the Army. It's From the Gravel" minister, "it would be rather incon­ sistent for us not to--" "There is only one thing to do. Lan­ stron has got us!" replied the premier. "We must jump in at the head of the procession and receive the mud or the( bouquets, as it happens." With Partow's and the staff's ap­ peals went an equally earnest one from the premier and his cabinet. Nat­ urally, the noisy element of the cities was the first to find words. It shouted In rising anger that Lanstron had betrayed the nation. Army offi­ cers whom Partow had retired for leis­ urely habits said that he and Lanstron had struck at their own calling. But the average man and woman, in a daze from the shock of the appeals after a night's celebration, were read­ ing and wondering and ^asking their neighbors' opinions. If not in Par­ tow's then in the staff's message they found the mirror that set their own ethical professions staring at them. Before they had made up their minds the correspondents at the front had set the wires singing to the even­ ing editions; for Lanstron had direct­ ed that they be given the run of the army's lines at daybreak. They told of soldiers awakening after the de­ bauch of yesterday's fighting, normal and rested, glowing with the security of possession of the frontier and re­ sponding to their leaders' sentiment; of officers of the type favored by Par­ tow who would bring the industry that commands respect to any calling, tak­ ing Lanstron's views as worthy of their profession; of that irrepressi­ ble poet laureate of the soldiers, Cap­ tain Stransky, I. C. (iron cross),break­ ing forth in a new song to an old tune, expressing his brotherhood ideas in a "We - have - ours - let - them - keep - theirs" chorus that was spreading from regiment to regiment This left the retired officers to grum­ ble in their corners that war was no longer a gentleman's vocation, and si­ lenced the protests of their natural al­ ly In the business of making war, the noisy element, which promptly adapted itself to a new fashion in the relation of nations. Again the great square was packed and again a wave­ like roar of cheers greeted the white speck of an eminent statesman's head. All the ideas that had been fomenting In the minds of a people for a genera' tlon became a living force of action to break through the precedents bora- of provincial passion with a new pre­ cedent; for the power of public opin­ ion can be as swift in its revolutions as decisive victories at arms. The world at large, after rubbing its tore- head and readjusting its eye-glasses and clearing its throat, exclaimed: >; "Why not! Isn't that what we have all been thinking and desiring? oAly Dobody knew how or where to bo- gin." The premier of the Browns found himself talking over the long distance to the premier of the Grays in as neighborly a fashion as if they had adjoining estates and were arranging a matter of community interest. "You have been so fine in waiving an indemnity," said the premier of the Grays, "that Turcas suggests we pay for all the damage done to property on your side by our invasion. I'm sure our people will rise to the sug­ gestion. Their mood has overwhelmed every preconceived notion ot mine. In place of the old suspicion that a Brown could do nothing except with a selfish motive is the desire to be as fair as the Browns. And the practi­ cal way the people look at it makes me think that it will be enduring. "I think so, for the same reason," responded the premier of the Browns. "They say it is good business. It means prosperity and progress for both countries." ' "After all, a soldier comes out the hero of the great peace movement," concluded the premier of the Grays. "A soldier took the tricks with our own cards. Old Partow waB the great­ est statesman of us all." "No doubt of that!" agreed the premier of the Browns. "It's a senti­ ment to which every premier of ours who ever tried to down him would have readily subscribed!" The every-day statesman Bmiles when he sees the people smile and grows angry when they grow angry. tiow and then appears an Inscrutable genius who finds out what Is brewing in their brains and brings it to a head. He is the epoch maker. Such an one was that little Corsican, who gave a stagnant pool the storm It needed, un­ til he became overfed and mistook his ambition for a continuation of his youthful, prescience. * * * * * Marta had yet to bear the shock of Westerling's death. After learning the manner of it she went to her room, where she spent a haunted, sleepless night. The morning found her still tortured by her visualization of the picture of him, Irresolute as the mob pressed around the ,Gray headquar­ ters. "It is as if I had murdered him!" she said. "I let him make love to me --I let my hand remain in his once-- but that was all, Lanny. I--I couldn't have borne, any more. Yet that was enough--enough!" "But we know now, Marta," Lan­ stron pleaded, "that the premier of the Grays hpld Westerling to a com­ pact that he should not return alive if he lost. He could not have won, even though you had not' helped us against him. He would only have lost more lives and brought still greater indignation on his head. His fate was inevitable--afld he was a soldier." But his reasoning only racked her with a shudder. "If he had only died fighting!" Mar- tar replied. "He died like a rat in a trap and I--I set the trap!" "No, destiny set it!" put in Mrs. Galland. Lanstron dropped down beside Mar- ta's chair. "Yes, destiny set it," he said, im­ ploringly. "Just as it set your part for "you. And, Marta," Mrs. Galland went on gently, with what Marta had once called the wisdom of mothers, "Lanny lives and lives for you. Your destiny is life and to Jnake the most of life, as you always have. Isn't It, Marta?" "Yes," she breathed after a pause. In conviction, as she pressed her moth­ er's hands. "Yes, you have a gift of making things simple and clear." Then she looked up to Lanstron and the flame in her eyes, whose leaping, spontaneous paBsion he already knew, held something of the eternal, as her arms crept around his neck. *You are life. Lanny! You are the destiny of today and tomorrow (THIS END.) After Lanstron's announcement to the Brown staff of his decision not to cross the frontier, there was a rest­ less movement In the chairs around the table, and the grimaces on most of the faces were those with which a practical man regards a Utopian pro­ posal. The vice-chi^f was drumming on the table edge and looking steadily at a point in front of his lingers If Lanstron resigned he became chief. "Partow might have this dream be­ fore he won, but wonld he now?" asked the vice-chief. "No. He would go on!" "Yes," said another officer "The world will ridicule the suggestion; our people will overwhelm us with their anger. The Grays will take it for a sign of weakness." "Not If we put the situation rightly to theip," answered Lahstron. "Not If we go to them as brave adversary to brave adversary. In a fair spirit." "We can--we shall take the range!" the vice-chief went on in a burst of rigid conviction when he saw thai opinion was with him. "Nothing can stop this army now!" He struck the table edge with his fist, his shoulders stiffening. . "Please--please, ' don't!" implored Marta softly. "It sounds so like Wes­ terling!" The vice-chief Btarted as If he had received a sharp pin-prick. His shoul­ ders unconsciously relaxed. He began a fresh study of a certain point on the table top. Lanstron, looking first at one and then at another, spoke again, his words as measured as they ever had' been in military discussion and eloquent. H<? began outlining his own _ message which would go with Partow's 1 prosperity attributed to war. A man I "Wait until Ton Teeter is cold! PRISON TAUGHT. Twenty-Five Years 'Ago Willie Sells Was Defendant in Murder Trial. HAS OWN DRUG STORE Sentenced, as a Boy, He Served 18 Years, But Always Insisted He Was Innocent--Was Drug Clerk.In Prison. Kansas City, Mo.--It was seven years ago last Christmas that Willie Sells, who was Bent to the Kansas State penitentiary when a boy to serve a life sentence for the murder of his mother and father and brother and sister, sat in the library of the p^mtentiary waiting for a Christmas gift that did not come* He had ex­ pected it all that day, an envelope from the governor of Kansas contain­ ing his pardon. It was a gloomy Christmas that day for Willie Sells, but he didn't lose hope. % He worked on and on at his task assigned by the warden until April. Then one day when he wasn't ex­ pecting it the warden called him to the office and handed him the letter with the pardon. His Desire to Make Good. That night Willie Sells left the Kansas> penitentiary 'behind him. No money in his pockets, few friends; but a desire and a .will to make good, that was all he had. "It was a long time coming, but it was worth waiting for," W. B. Sells, druggist, said the other day in his own drug store at Thirteenth street and Garfield avenue, Kansas side. "I've been out seven years now and I have worked hard to show the world that a man can make good even if he has spent eighteen long years behind the walls of a -penal institution." ^ It was the same Willie Sells who 25 years ago figured. In one of the most sensational murder cases the history of the West. Circumstantial Evidence. Through the long dreary days of his trial for the quadruple murder Willie Sells maintained his Innocence. Served 18 Years In Prison. His conviction was based on circum­ stantial evidence. The trial was held at Erie, Kan. Sympathizers with the boy, who be­ lieved he had been persecuted, started many petitions to obtain his release without success. A petition contain­ ing thousands of names of persons in all parts of the state and some from other states was presented to Gov­ ernor Qoch seven years ago and It was planned to free Sells Christmas- day, but Governor Hoch delayed the matter until April. "Came Back" by Hard Work. Willie Sells "beat his way back" by hard work. His education practically was obtained in the penitentiary. He v.orked some in the prison drug store, where he learned to "fill prescriptions. So when he got out he obtained em­ ployment in a drug store in a small western Kansas town. He worked and saved his money. Three years ago he cam^to Kansas City and ob­ tained employment in the drug store he owns today. peace; and peace gave the Impetus of I cold." GOOD FOR LONG WARM SPELL Widow Teeter's Opinion of Her De- parted Husband Evidently Was Not an Exalted One. The Widow Teeter's husband had been dead only a few weeks when there were syrfafce indications that she was about to marry again. The late Mr. Teeter had not been exactly a model husband, and It was the general opinion that his death was a Stroke of-'good foni-One for Mrs. Teeter, but still the relatives of the deceased thought that his memory re­ quired a widowhood of at least a year. When the Indications of the approach­ ing marriage became apparent, Bome of her late husband's, friends waited on Mrs. Teeter, and one of them said: "We hear that you are about to marry again, Lucy Ann?" "Well, I don't know that it is any of your business," replied Lucy Ann, "but if it will give you any satisfac­ tion to know the facts, I don't mind telling you that I shall be a married woman again in about two weeks." "But Tom has been dead less than three months," protested another. "Well, I suppose he's dead as he ever will be, Isn't he?" "But," said a third, "you ought in common decency to wait until he is repeated the widow, with fire in her eye. 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Ten bush; enough sceil to plant an acre of Schroeder's Famous Ohio--that great Potato--goofl in early Summer, good in Winter, good in Fall, gOod all the year around--the 10 bushels blood blue seed •tock cost b«t $15.00. Order now of u*. Headquarters for Alfalfa. For 10c In Postage We gladly mail our Catalog fcnd sample package of Ten Fa­ mous Farm Seeds, including Speltz, "The Cereal Wonder " Rejuvenated White Bonanza Oats, "The Prize Winner;" Bil­ lion Dollar Grass; Teoainte, the Silo Filler, etc., ete. * Directors' Meeting in Trench. London.--In a dug-out in the trench­ es at the front. Capt. Stanley Low and Capt. Geoffrey Cox, directors of Vach- er & Sons, Ltd., parliamentary print­ ers, held a meeting and passed on the company's summary of the year's ac­ count sent from London. Gets War Names. Whitely, England.--Mrs. Edward Griffin's seventh baby, who was born during the German bombardment, has been christened George, after the king, and Shrapnel, in memory of the bom- bardme«t. Or 8«nd 12c And we will mail our big Catalog and six gener*nw packages of Early Cabbage, Carrot, Cucumber, Lettuce, Radish, Onion--furnishing lots and lots of juicy dehcious Vegetables during the early Gpring and Summer. Or aend to John A Sal««r Seed Co., Box 700 La Croaae, Wis., twenty cents sad reoelve both above collec­ tions and their big catalog. Let's remember the kind sots of otlk* ers, but forget our own! o # Granulated Eyelids* :xpo»- sure to Sun, Oust and Wlnl quicklv relieved by Murln# E y c B e r a e d y . N o S r ; a r t i u f o just Eve Comfort A| Your Druggists 50c per Bottle Murine £y§» Ssi vtin Tubes 2 5c. For Book el I he Ey e f ree as%» Druggists CT Marias Ctwf »j> Sore Eyes inflamed by ex Eyes