The evening world. Newspaper, August 21, 1914, Page 11

ete ein " eee eh iirag <4 ae a eeeaeiaanie P - SaaiEnanaEiiesamtanatmnadiittieoasunatrtemsedacstieelaae con ee The Evening World Daily Magazine. Friday, August 21, 1914 x ODOOOOO “ One: 9OOOHHHHDOSGHDHODIDDHHOHHOOS DOODOHOHHHODOHOD® x ® « OODOOSy A Complete Novel Each Week in The Evening World D > : A Great FRANCO-PRUSSJAN WAR By Robert W. Chambers “In my quality of ex-pompier and bend, glanced right and left, sooges In @ dosen steps they entered the commandant of the ‘Terrors of Mor- back, signalled, and started on. » low doorway, Brocard leading, Lor- teyn’—dy battalion"—bere he made @ hind him crowded a dozen more Uh- raine leaning heavily on Jack's sweeping gesture as though briefly re- lana, lances glancing, pennants stream- al viewing an army corps instead of ing in wind. thick-headed Eng. . fan! to ot. dozen wolfish-eyed \to—"l extend @ got a woman!” whispered next room; let him damned poacher will hang us Suddenly they all gave he to our honored and beloved Chatelaine Lorraine. sleep in peace,” murmured Brocard. What am I to dof” jen and lawns wane emptied wave de Nesville, and to our honored gu They bad @ man, too—a He threw a bianket over the bed, ‘What is it?” asked Jack, im-@ for the writhing wounded aad motien- lesa dead. “Cheer!” gasped Lorraine and the Monsieur Marche, the protection and bearded peasant, with a great livid shoved the logs in the fireplace with safe-conduct of the “Terrors of Mor- his obnalied boots until th sparks teya.' he little fiames ta: battered Chateau again with Five minutes later Jack and Lor- ap. frenzied cries of triumph. i were at supper at a caveedge SOW of @ Uhlan. But wi on the bed, yes in the dark- , Jack's heart fairly ito his covering her bead with her arms; ‘Two tin basins of soup were brought Mouth was to Bt von Steyr Jack dropped into a chair by the fire, to them; they ate it, soaking bits of suddenly wheel in bis saddle and lash looking miserably from Lorraine to You can't see him,” whispered crust in it, the woman across the face with his Brocard. hame. “Brocard caught the di the road ahead was biack aad. bowls, Here and there the bedding ‘and woodwork had caught but the line soldiers knooked it out with their ———aa ‘When Lorraine bad Gnished her “foubled bridle. The next room's door opened and a rattle of his lance in the sti CHAPTER XIV. rifle butts. Whenever Lorraine en- soup, Jack took both plates into the She cringed and fell to her knees, man appeared, dressed in tweeds, gone to ki im, the bloodthirsty . tered @ room they cheered her—the cave and gave them to a man who, pays Neg oe BR OE booted and spurred, and carrying @ Ne Th Warrtor M td young oficers waved thelr even squatted on his Raunches, was, weshe oon 1 Rt) Von travelling satchel. ‘There was & mo- io shoot Le asked Jack aghast. i. ea bugler shea, Lorrain lowed him ~ ere jent’s on! Bilence. “Noi he's broad wi aaiia ea feobly “sounded the “salute to the eat down, ona blanket, Teasing beck Shoot that French dog “Marche!” cried Archibald Gra- me h ng that's the way these brutes an, atrugeting in the Gust. ‘In Rose: beret” “ity whese hasSc” oeking ae aca rang throughh tp forests ” D ey shool LT “Walt for me" said Jack. She drew $n ‘she find fallen among the horses} quentioningly at cach other’ Ne gA scream rang through, the forests Binoy tin there in the darkness f ‘focper spurred forward and raised “Times bave chan since we too—a horse, gailoving, » @ moment, Manoonssious of the amased rope around’ his ‘neck epee rs cat tyne eae Jest, ‘ying 40 regal ate eee Mack col rg he] him, hanging to the eetidie bow, and coolness, , the tearing the rider with teeth and nails. “I know—I know,” sald Sa Eas tain Se ST Bie a Bete TNT tN fe A road ren under the overhamging 11, with a lance-butt, another buried I can never forges her charming wel- 8 Jack ran up the terrace oars, steps the Gallif@ began to By the light of the candles Jack ( whir like a watchman’s rat- noticed for the _ time that Lorraine § tle; needle-pointed flames Wore the dress Driked he arias from hedge and mati, tat hone en hg wall, where a dark line swayed to the chains of silver. And as she and fro under the smoke. loading the rifles in the emoke-choked Up the stairs he sped and ftung £00, the soldiers saw more than that; @pea the door of a bedroom. Lorraine there—the Province of aig ee etood in the middle of the room, look- they cheered and leaped to the win- “] didnt know we were eo near a ® lance-point in his b but he come, Dear me, but this war is die and the ing out into the darkness. Bhe turned dows, fring trensiediy, the old ‘d Jack, etartiod, ‘Tricasee POG ee, tecth in che Uihlente cacn, Gusting! ien's it new? And what the and clinging like & panth battle ory of Lorraine: “Tiens ta Foy! laid his finger on bis lips ying je Ubian’s evil are you doing here? Heavens, Ble bread knife Gasking ia @t the sound of the opening door: - a dil the Ubian ‘ad pene i . Frappe! Pour le Roy!” ohile ¢he obild “Te is the hi Foad to Gatnetire Dee tnd fall craatl ops man, you're & sight!" ‘Jack! im the bodice and scarlet skirt stood ‘We have more than one Srna eae ne inte the Feed. Lorraine sat up om the bed at the “Hurry!” he gasped; “this time they up straight and snapped back the og on that curve there by the oak ‘o ty — "Me sound of the voices. When Grahame mean business. Where ts your senti- Coa ee chassepota, ene Soe ne Seung, tear "Through the crash and mmoke they S#7 Der, aaw her plight—the worm Bel? Where is the general? Hurry, «once again! For France!” ered are encusts, A the bend in the could wee the jane staggering, sink- steined bodice — my child! Lorraine, as the clameur of the Prus- a He went out to the hall again, and gan drums broke out on the hillaide to and the hoarse trumpets signalled from big police oMlceet” ingetred ool) ‘Tricasee eagerly. Grenoted with blood hin sabre ta and J ren - Gaughter of the oath-breaker, the ‘‘Yes, the Lig one with ee ee ing above his bead. ‘ I, Come now!—and eo am I.” butcher of December, tne sly, slow He died hard. ts They pulled him from his bores, 1 palpitation—nothing but foreboding. ly,” gaid the franc-tireur, ae are Yack crawled to his Races; his chest @iplomate of Europe, the man of Rome, O"\Tinw at the dried blood on bis put, he still raged, | lay ben gs ay threlge a, geome ieee ached, his mouth cracked with a ter- of Mexico, the man now reeling back hairy fists “I got a Bavarian sentry, pirinken 1 ‘They beat him with rible throbbing thirst. Dazed as yet. to Chalons under the iron blows ef af too; Cand ol I grag vee musket-stocks, they hurled stones at he did not even look around; he did Jack look: et, ‘Tricamee 1), : ‘tore! ot try to think; but that weight on @roused people. In Paris, already, they sack with Bie lone With ciutned ‘tmnoss end’ be, yaoed “Bay tm half an hour, Can Mate- ripped up the mail cheat grew toa burning agony, and cursed his name; they hurled insults jag, knife. “They stole our mall; they 1, f “ave they gone—our soldiers?” Re tore af his coat and threw it open. at the poor Hmpress, that mother in ‘will not steal 1t again.” 0 TU Gyan hea, Waas, ROA Bie Om ered een Cena enna bocratn faltered Lorraine. “Is it defeat? Jack, Fae Eat eee bem, Precoes Dy & Bales dempalet casse, sorting the letters and shuffle wen they ahot inte hie ¢wisting body. with «tired, quaint politeness that ger mel” clding the Chateau to began; but at that instant something ‘hen he remembered. “ite ripped open FOF good or fil Jack made up his {hem te carne vse And at Inst they exterminated the made them amile, rotect the retreat, I think. Hark! struck him @ violent blow on the waistcoat and shirt and stared at his mind; he had decided for himself and One by ond he looked them ever, “But the ‘butchery was bot “Then we wish to get ae near to Fetuse The gatling is roaring Uke a furnace! Siw ane he fell, striking the floor bare bronst. It wee Giecoloured—a for her. He, would not tell her tB© ported out two, atuffed the rest into sround the bead of the road galloped Se, eT ‘Sf vei ean ” ald eae ane ape the old general came "in a second Lorraine wae at his Blood there, “He looked listiessly atthe secret of per birth. the breast of is sheepskin coat @24 more Uhiana, baited, and tanos. If you could drive ua tovee 50,00 as tar as to pion tome when Laweke, He was lifting him with all the strength ef box on the leaves under him, and Why should he, the man who loved stood up. ig galloped back with harsh cries. Th¢ Lusemburg frontier we would be all CUM And & village very good and kind. Then suddenly her arms, calling to him: “Jack! touch bruised body. Suddenly her, bring to her this heritage of ruin? “There are two letters re shed Nate echoed from above and right—it we had ‘any money.” th oY sentinel on the stairs fell down Jack! Jack!” bis athe grew clearer; he stumbled why should he tear the vell from her Monsieur Marche, that were foie low; the frano-tireurs were sur “You shall have everything,” orted nd we ran out. He was dead; a bullet ‘The soldiers were leaving the win- up, steadying himself against a tree. y Pevotien tang be,read by the Prussian police oot bag ica Grahame; “you shall be aeiten Sild entered from the window at the dows now: the hours rocked and tot; His lipe moved “Lorraine!” Put 2° Cought with blood and broken cathe what ‘do rou think st our new Te sabre, and, bending, Wook’ the ‘send ou wish. 'm looking fore. battle o yy ‘went rr sound came. in, ew, he fam: very: German Mgtt: ‘a of poy ty accea ead we general solid shot. Downstairs an offer cried: to cry out. He c Could Rot speak. Then roars and way, orhie ls bs Fle eve AE a, Stoncleut trampled eae from ‘the dust, He be. deen driving sbout this wreck of 4 tae tec met ie da"aot aha Sant Ter of twtr Raver fas devia, ante eat eee Heke eae AM MARAT wy tera” ei dane, feo hs Ted tie test RS ied Aen oy Road ce A and some ', oa “emf Ritmo heame (1 the Wogoe gating tguened arsine emily o8 Tick 'hinhnito Dade pried enon the Wt, rntneriraad the pages cf an Say gown and rnd them both, gehar beng ronal ne wT © fe Datuta 8 Raebehofen ond For : rl jeave, an y 5 by . , ty the earden began to leave ented 'sdive him.to me; Twill carry him ‘The ‘kalfeblede in the box bent, Eastern diary! There, too, ie VOUT geain and again. "Ce tral Oa tral” hey, The Germans lost three thou- tere 2 own,” he said. sprang back—the box flew open. Jack DF @ sick child of fifteen, bap; “FT Or yack had finished his reading, It wae the Rorrible song ef Me Sand five hundred men at Hea for You” nced right and left, The ““Bhe clung to Jack and turned a looked at the three folded papers ly- Used at Baarbruck, endowed at Be@an ts! 4 "1-344 up at Tricasse, folding te Terror and 5 wag not there artillery were leaving by the stable blank ‘on the soldier. ing within, curiously, indolently. Pres- Sed pitag tts iis heal deep letters and placing them in his breast, the ad. fond: from every aide the infantry “Give him to me,” he repeated: “the ently he took them and looked at the end L bape s forest mould, where the flat steel box was. oat cavalry warged oxeund Toads aed. past across the lawn, run- house {is burning.” But she would not superacriptions written on the back, 'nto the soft fore “Letters from Paria” he sald, “The 20% Mereltea re ri fing when they came to the garden, move nor relinquish her hold. Then in the handwriting of the marquis }'THO Prong while in silence, Uhians have tn the Bure-et- and le! senees: a ring of ving Rtnower of bullets fellamong the soldier seteed Jack and threw him ‘The three papers were inscribed as ,, 1/0, atson & (one “Jne was breath: Seine and at Melun, They are arming OT0' the Nttle group o! bb A captain hastening over his shoulder, running swiftly follows: coming Gown Be ee heey in. Geiforts and enoeinte, and the city is treurs, from the whirl of larger ece fowatae (ho (2 zl them in down the stairs, that rocked under his “1, For the French Government af- {ng quictly, regularly; her tang, fag provisioned for & siege.” Liye jd pot ge towards the terrace looked at them in firm (lorraine cried out and followed ter the fall of the Empire.” ing Inshee rested on curved chesk® being provisiotes tar ®t ‘Tricase, France!” thousand men, six hund non— PUEDTINO. | stom ried Jack. “Can't him into the darkness, where the “2, For the French Government on ‘elicate ns an infants. |. || 4 | cade Go they died. oe Gel Detector, you hold the Chateau? crashing of tiles and thunder of the the death of Louis Bonaparte, falsely , Walt ferrvoly pounded on the dead vc nodded, sflentty. pe ae = rte F eo Ch has been car- exploding shells dased and stunned called Emperor.” spd ww frane-urenr = ot he resumed: “The CHAPTER XVII. Y 4 Hed eta the captain, “They are her; but the soldier ran on across the “8. To whom {t may ooncern!* ienven Teioe ee gnedider ante o moment Re Teter the eraiy ‘Sedan? Sedant Stecnsed, starved, disheartened army, ” eal 7 i. ‘ r ” . touc'! im J . peror is jedan. jedan inder the and citadel a taking us on the left flank. Madame,” garden, calling to her, and she fol- “To whom it may concern!” he re. “What do you want?” asked Jack, ~ralSfesteres on the south bank of the catty soarcsly provisioned for e regi- a this 1s side. ated, looking at the third paper. sama } ORRAINA hed turned ghast- E ort uerantene ies) otew tm: bidet wagner det vas the forest”— b oteeed tee Spened it and read it, {1 @ vo! that vibrated unpl tly. ing to find him, whi ment. é 4 | i yreotae he gasped. and as he read his heart seemed to There a dangerous light in his ly white; Jaok’s ehocked rerraine, aiting on the edge of the brea ; were already trees, cease 3 his li ‘ew thinner and whiter. Lorraine spoke thiessty: “Are They among the ita beating. bite) ie pick Py ‘doven franc-treurs “nat ‘stared at him, incapable of face wae coloriems as be bed, looked at him silently, but hi he eyes were full of @ horror and an 4 the Chateau with the Then Lorraine seised the man by the = +79 WHOM IT MAY CONCERN! from behind the trees on drew her away from the fa cater” | arm, her eyes wide with despair. 44 _ "Grief has unsettled my mind, yet tvery aide. riftes shimmering in the "PS°™ 1. 14 sao, gontiy, sthinke Fidge ‘with Bm fate the £uish that Grahame could not help the captain, | "Give me my degree Pante® what I now write is true, and, if there subdued afternoon hi ry, wloomy- 4 “ver? Trait me, at lead how we cal forest, The appalling Dorror Rad "wre ace “We are obliged fo see ernie rane caitored the soldier, 12 8 God, y Selerenty Oall SEIN CUrSOs OR: ered. te Uta sleeveless sheepekin Gvold the German lines. We must #tart stunned her! knees gave way, she yet," he cheerfully. “Who knows . ‘ sre rr pon z tng. Lorraine caught Jack's arm. | laying Jack down against a tree, But wuy only son, Rene Philip @'Har- sombre caps and trousers thinly banded this evening” | 1, exety tm the stumbled, but Jack beld ber up by That may happen in the next twenty. nly crouched and took himfr the court do Nesville, was assassinated on With orange braid. They looked St Ce; "iack entered and ant ‘on main force, pushing the undergrowth nelle iil, there are many shots: to be 4 a him without speaking, almost without } uate ay Mae German Tife-fiames began to CHAPTER XV. Party now Meters Misely Gs Nepclens “Your pame?’ geet She men whe hed ang et at ad the vests Ee Bae rend Lenape moved cower the door aad out fiicker along the ° touc! Im on the . ‘) the cave where he was; ly knew seattle, *Panet rang out against the Princess Imperial. THE, Emperor of the French, His paid ‘ore aid not reply at once, One of {ream As they hurried Tom Ue ting the moment it was abeotutely neces- {ne Fad. It was perhaps respect for granite facade behind them. HB glare from the Chateau stabbed Im to death with their bay- the men began to laugh. ani dorieas cavalry horse by one hand: Ger thems Go got as far the grief of this young French girl “Come!” he cried, sharply, wut the Morteyn, now wrapped in onets, in front of the Cafe Tortoni. I ee he. icons e nepner ee prise ar Bold ie vite, the a ped Mlb teres ee that sobered | their face a sent atipped from ane ES torrents of curling flame, carried his body home; I sat at the anothers butt dripping with blood. Seeeitte trom Cnet ‘a lewues ways who, now used, sat up on the moss but ” , butcher’s work. Lorraine knew it, 24 means of getting across the Luz- Roprime were beating somewhere in ‘threw long crimson shatts Window, with my dead boy on my M0, Agu er he continued: “And that | ““Atlence” he motioned, 10, tne, eran cried to recover her coctneas S=UUrE érontier without further de- the disvant forest—ahrill, treble drums oetignt far into the forest, The #om- ride into the Rue St. Honore with his 1s the iittle chatelaine of the Chatead Porte oy tteeney at the cavalry and ber strength ey. 9 ack, left alone with Lorraine —and %m every hillside the hollow, bre trees giimmered like live'cinders; murderous Lancers, and I saw chil- de Nesville, He took of ht: J ore. ‘The schabraque was blue, Men tr tet ease: bana, agi atom Mae tote foom, fose aad harsh | assian trumpets spoke Thon a wa bronsed ae aren spit at him and hurl curses at Visored cap. t, aallow faces edged with yellow: the saddle-cloth i rew b 4 came a sound, deep, menacing—® far the wet moss erisped a him from the barricade. ao eee ot foun Lorraine stood bore the number M11." faintly: “Jack—I—I am not strong— | “Don't be unhappy,” he sald. “The ery? : the red radiance played through the ""ivow"y Guibert, Marquia de Nes- Stew, friendly, and, es Torres one Sttmiant’ He formed the word with I am—e—iittie~faint.” Tears were ‘ide of fortune must turn soon; this wna dont iereriae ed tattered thickets, The bright, wavering fire- ville, awore to strike. And I struck, to"me other, capa were dofted, rifle his lps. running over her cheeks, peror ena ao our part. Dow't Bak Larval mounting the terrace. The glow fell full on Jack's body; his face not at his life—that can walt. Istruck jit. fa ¢o the ground. ‘The franc-tireur nodded with a Lorraine mjooked at her in suprise. was hidden in the shadow of Lor- at the root of all his pride and honor | wwhy, i¢'s Monsieur Tricasse of the ghastly amfle and glanced down at Jack peered out through the trees that way, Lorraine, my darling!” He yk her in bis arms. She put ; , ty "etruck ‘at’ that which he held gay" ar Tricasse Gn, fis dripping qunstook. Into the narrow wood road. Immedi- too on eae Jack caught her arma; she shook him raine’s hair, Tears Gest nat Ma dynesty! Saint-Lya Fompters!” she seid, “Did Lorraine's hand closed on Jack's ately @ man bafled him from some. srme around his neck, and aid her off, impat Hently. sq again, “Ta France _ Twice the timid young soldier drew © “Do the people of France remember ee ete Bruni Emile, my. son, erm. where among the trees, and he but she crept back, mur- when came the news that the expected why are you not with your regiment?” “Come to the hill,” she sald? “T can- rank fixed Vor a while he held her, watehing @umb?" She raised her hand. her away, bu ° _ ahrank back, teeth set, eyes fixed in the fre with troubled eyes. The MT se'France™ shouted the ar- muring Jack's name; and at last the helr of the Emperor and Empress, & The dark faces ighted up: somebody not etand that ridge “esperation. room grew darker; © wind. ares dow! ; Brun, a conscript of the On the crest of the wooded "We tillerymen, catching her jour. “Vive soldier seized the body in both arms *{, Gilbert de Nesville, was in the snickered; sd been havied by the crouched Tricasse, bared sabre stuck ‘Who are yout came the summons among the forest trees, stirring dried Ia Patrie! Vive Lorraine an and stumbled on again, calling Lor- forest when the Empress of the French Glase of "71 who had been neice bed, {athe sround before hime revolver seein !n French. Jack did not answer. Jeaves on brittle stems; the ped ee 08 ‘Again the short, barking, Proved fol i. When separated from. tho pesle,ffom vit end twiddied is in elther fist, Around him lay bis Fresently @ man in a blue blows the hearth drifted like gray enow- _ cheer sounded, and again the artillery. Mayr poqlireen the {Hlomination others she called to Morny, and bade thumbs men, fiat on the ground, eyes focusse’ Carrying & whip, stepped out into the flakes men answered it, chew on cheer, him drtve for the love of Heaven! And “One by one the franc-tireurs came on the turn in the road below, Their ‘om, the farther ier gtiliness began to troutie Provii btm. France, for the Land, for the N08 taded out among the trees; the bIGK they Grove—they drove to the Trianon, shambling up to pay thelr awkward eyes glowed like the eyes of cared “de, of the slope: He bent in the dusk to see her face. of Lorraine, Up in the windows of Voo4s crowded in on every side: th® and there wasn one there. And there respects to Lorraine and to Jack, while beasts, thelr sinewy fingers played jii'0 be allel wofliy, 4, he was asleep, Terror, pity, the ‘Goataan, the lee ee ose of the crackling flames, the the child was born. Morny held tt 1n ‘Tricasse pulled his bristling mustache continually with the rifle-hammers —,1nos tooked af Din. The mie the dreadful uncertainty: ha stained cheering toot the, © ting, the bi ttle of drums came out to the colon- and clattered his sabre in ite sheath Jack hesitated, his arm around Lor. furned bis gla riendly @04 hep child's nerves to the utmost! af= roof, stamping out el eed Smee reat cal taut ped analy olding it in his arms, and calling approvingly. When his men had ac- ratne's body, his eyes fixed nervously Purymi amie, 1 1 J ter that came the deep fatigue that ian: flames, swung thelr caps and echoed grew fainter and fainter, and lees of fOr & messenger, I came, and when I quitted themselves with all the awk- on the bend in the road. arte eet * follows torture, and ene lay 1m te the shouts from terrace and window. . died out in the soft, was close to Morny I struck him 1n ward sincerity of Lorraine peasants, Something was coming; there were “Mii youl) faked deck. | 1 arms, imp, pallid, exhausted. Hee che adlreiry vi Meton of hundreds ‘DSynen they halted the young soldier the face and he fell senseless. I took he advanced with a superb bow and erties, the trample of horses, the oop was almost the unconsciousness jer—at your service, And you are ft in my cloak. flourish, lifting his cap from his gray shuffle of footsteps Suddenly a Di of coma; she scarcely breathed. , a shout? Jack on the moss, then held [he child and wrapped the young nephew of the Vicom! ie Of hoofs—there came et Hourra’ Dit‘tis hands, Lorraine touched them, ‘TMs ts the truth! head: Uhlan rode cauttousty around the sroefoyn, and that te the little Cha’e- , Te fire on the hearth went outs ‘ : “They dared not tell it; they dared 7 ,Oeue the smoking embers glimmered under infant Parr gud aia caer away with. bene uereelt tare prostrate Oe tr’' not, for fear and for shame, They sald laine do Nesvillel | Coeur Dieu! ‘feathery ashes, Grabame entered, ~~ canes Feo ga he the same ae a moment t the soldier touched S an hele bed been hor aad and oo? Answer me, Monsieur Marche— ORETIER Jf Jantern. “Poor td d <¢ iret he: moment, over the park walls swarmed her again timidly on the shoulder: was only a daughter. She is alive; she now you and I know the little thing!—ean't. T tepares. "Poot bey ‘e're in the the Bavarians in a forest of bayonets. “Have I done well?” loves me, and, God forgive me, I hate chatelaine—ob, I know!—I, who have 1) 1 here ip you, Maro! ‘we go back?” "t me from I rising to her Weare 4 watched you at your pretty love- Walts here's a rug. So—w it A wagon in front started on; at the ‘The Chateau vomited fia Bhe sobbed her thanks, 4 ge y aati Jolt ry sounded ngted on Are You Going Away for Vacation? plied a ey When you go out of town for vacation you may find tt ts diffl- every window; the Gatling, pulled knees. The soldier, of eighteen, Der for defeating my fust vengsenct, ., making there in the Neaville @round her feet. Can you carry her? : ed out ightened up; el laid forest while 1 waa setting my snares Then follow; here, touch my cost— another, another—the deep sighs: Peck into the Soneke af fire, Jack his knapsack ead ‘Raversack ca the cult and costly to provide yourself with the right sort of reading} for pheasants and hares! Dame! One I'm solng to put out the light in my the dying, the groans of the a dragged Lorraine to the first floor; ground, trembled, swayed, and sat must live! Yes, I am Brocard—I do Jantern. Now—gently. Here weare.” the muttered curses of teamati cited. Almost at once down, muttering vaguely of God and CHAPTER XVI. matter. not lie, T have taken enough game Jeck climbed Into the post-chaiee: rose in one terrible plaint. A Tee its scwn ‘and ‘began to load the honor of France. "presently he The Shadow of Pomp. Why send to the elty for novels at $1.25 or $1.50 each or buy} from your uncle in my” time; gan 1 Orahane, Holling Lorraine 1a Ie wagon started. the wounded rifles, passing them to Ji went away, lurching in the darkn them at a fancy price in some country store? service to his nephew?” hha hea’ anol started —another —anot passi a like a drunk , on, deep into JHE long evening shadows Jack briefly explained their plight, *#0/n. @ had no! and the long train creaked on, athe hd as eis the Body whe ety “ light or | were lengthening among the You can supply yourself with the best, most delightful summer | Brocard nodded. Sean rn ited ore going tt Im alr vibrating with the weak pro! 7 dow was torn in and the mattress on sound penetrated, And when he could trees; sleepy birds twitted | reading for six cents a week. He stepped out Into the road and bd P J tions of miserable, mangled she quenched the flames with no longer stand he sat down, his . Soler froma pitcher: and when the young head in his hands, and waited, ta due thickets; Lorraine , soldiers hesitated at the breach, she His body had been shot through and P beckoned Jack and Lorraine, When Might within?” tossing their thin arma toward they came to his side he pointed toa “You,” nodded Jack. sky. And now, too, the sold! stone cottage, low and badly thatched, The chaise moved on for a moment, moving out into ¢! By subscribing to The Evening World for the rest of the summer you will secure a complete novel each week. Not some old book a start . Id her back h. ied. Jack still stood staring at the paper hidden among the trunks of the then suddenly stopped with a jerk. and Pg hy Ale Bll ved vie Tee ane at tla ene the in his hands, trying to understand the | country dealer has not been able to sell, but the finest up-to-date fiction | young beech growth. A team of Jack heard Grahame whisper, “Bit alloped past, mattresses into the shattered window. gray mystery of dawn was passing purport of what he read and reread, | Dy the foremost living authors, horses harnessed to @ carriage was sti)l, you fool! I've got pusweay sit er mounted Below in the garden the Bavarians through the silent forest aisles; the wae “inning around the house, ham. beeches, pallid, stark, loomed motion. Until the page became @ blur and his mering with rifle butts at the closed less on every side; the pele veil of hot eyes burned, shutters, crouching, dodging from sky-fog hung festooned fr: tree to All the significance of the situation standing before the door; smoke rose stil!” apidated chimney, “Let go!" murmured Brocard. guest,” he saidi “youneed ‘Sit still!" repeated Grahame, in not fear him. 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