THE SEMI-WEEKLY TRIBUNE. NORTH PLATTE, NEBRASKA. !' i The Last nr FREDERICK (Copyright, 1914, by 11 SYN0P8IS. At tllclr home on Hie frontier between Um llrnwnM unil drays Mnrtu (Inlliuul ami lier mother, entertaining Colonel Wester JltiK (if I liu Gray, se Captain r.iutatron of the Urowns Injured by a. fnll In lilt iicrotiluiic Ten yearn Intur. Weslerlliifr, nominal vice but real rlilef of ntarT, rc-on-forci-8 Houth 1m TIr ami meditate on war lit' i-nlli on Marin, who In vIhUIiik lit tho lr en pi ml. She tells him of her teach ing rhlldren the folllc of war hiiiI mar tini patriotism, anil eg hi in to prevent war wlillo he Ih chief of Ktaff. On the mm ill with the 53d of the Hrowna I'rl. vnte Htraimky, niinrchlM, In placed under nrreiit Colonel Lanstron beK him off. Ijinntrnn calls on Murta at her home. Itu tnllH with Keller, the Hardener Maria tt'lls I-iriHtroii that Hhe lielleves Keller lo bo a ep. linntron confesses It In true. J.aiiMlroii shows Mart a a telpphone which Keller ban concealed In a Hecret passago tinder the tower for use to benefit tlio. lirnwriH In war emergencies. Lanstron le clareH Ills lovo for Marta. Weuterllng and tlm Gray premier plan to use a trivial In ternational arfalr to foment wnrlltca pa triotism In army and people and strike, be fore declaring war I'm (aw, Urown chief of staff, and Lanstron, made vice, iIIbcuuk (he trouble, and the Brown defenses. I'ur tow reveuln li Ih plans to Lunstron. The Oniy arm crosses the border line and at tack The. Drowns check them. Artil lery Infantry, noroplancs and dirigible iiKHKe Stransky, rising to mnko the nnarclilst speech of his life, draws tho Oray nrtlllery lire. Nicked by n shrapnel splinter he goes Berserk and Debts "all n man " Mnrtu has hor first glimpse of war In Its modern, cold, scletitlllc, mur dermis brutality. The Browns fall back to the Oulland house. Htranskv forages. Maria sees n night attack. The Orays nttack In force CHAPTER XII Continued. I ' Hut she hurried on, Impelled by sho know not what,, through tho dining room, and, coming to the veranda, stopped short, with diluting eyes and a cry of grievous flhock. Two of his men were carrying Dellarmo back from the breastwork, where they had caught him In their arms as he full. They laid him gently on tho sward 'with a knapsack under his head. His face grow whiter with the flow of blood from tho red hole In tho right breast of his blouse. Then ho opened his lips and whlspured to the doctor: "How Is It?" Something In his eyes, In the tone of that faliit question, re qulrod the grace of n soldlor's truth In answer, "Had!" said the doctor. "Then, good-hy!" And his head fell to ouo side, his lips sot In hlu choory smile. i H(u company was a company with Ills smile out of Us heart and in its )huo blank dospalr. Many of tho men had stopped firing. Some had oven run back to look at him unit stood, cups off, backs to tho enemy, minor Ablq In their grief. Others leanod agulnat tho pnraiwt, rlfleo out of hand, ntnrlng nnd dazed. 'They have killed our captain!" "They've klllod our captain I "still a captain to them. A general's stjira could not havo rnlsed him a cubit In their estimation. "And onefs wo callod him 'llaby Del Inrme,' he was so young and bashful! Him a baby? Ho was a king!" "Men, got to your places!" cried tho surviving lloutonant rather hopelessly, with no Dellarme to show him what to do; and Marta saw that few paid any attention to him, In thut mjnuto of demoralization tho Grays had thefr chance, but only for a mlnuto. A volco that aoemed to speak Homo uncontrollable thought of hor own broke In, and It rang with the au thority and leadership of n maturo or fleer's commund, oven though coming from a gardonor In blue blouse and crownleas straw hat "Your rifles, your rifles, ciulckl" called Feller. "We're only beginning to light!" And then another voice In a bull roar, Stransky's: "Aveugo hlH death! They've got to MM the last man of us for killing him! llflvcugo! Itovongo!" That cry brought back to tho com pany all the lighting spirit of the cheery smllo and with It another spirit for Dellarmo's sukel-whlch ho had never taught them. Stransky picked up one of several cylindrical objects that wore lying at Ills feet "He wouldn't use this ho was too soft-heartedhut I will!" ho cried, and flung n hand-grenade, and then n sec ond, ovor tho broastwork. Tho oxplo (ilous were followed by agonized Kroana from tho drays hugging the lower side of tho torrneo. For this they hud crawled acrowi the road in the night to find themselves unablo to move either way and directly undqr tho flashes of tho Urowns' rifles. Feller's and Stransky's shouts roao together in n peculiar unity of direc tion and full ot the fellowship thoy had found In thoir first exchange of glances. "You engineers, make ready 1" "Hand-grenades to tho men under tho trcol That's where thoy'ro going to try for it no wall to climb over there 1" "You engineers, take your rlllca and bayonot into unythlng that wears gray!" "(let back, you men by the tree, to .avoid their hand-grenades I Form up behind them, everybody I" "No .matter If thoy do got In at llrst! Jlack, you men, from under tho troe!" There was not a single rifle-shot. In a alienee llko that before the word to Are in a duel, all ordora were heard Shot PALMER Charles Scrlbner's Sons) and tho more readily obeyed because Dellarmo's foresight had impressed their senso upon the men, In his quiet way. The sand-bags by the tree wore blown up by tho CJrnys. Then, before tho dust had hardly settled, camo a half Bcoro of hand-grenades thrown by the first men of a Gray wedge, scram bling as they were pushod through the breach by tho pressure of tho mass behind. In that llnnl struggle of one net of men to gain and another to hold a position, guns or automatics or long-range bullets played no part. It was the grapple of cold steol with cold steel and muscle with musclo, in tho billowing, twlBtlng mob of wres tlers, with no sound from throats but straining breaths; with no quarter, no distinction of person, nnd bloodshot oyos and faces hot with tho effort of brute Blrongth striving, In primitive desperation, to kill In order not to bo killed. Tho cloud of rocking, writhing arms nnd shoulders was neither go ing forward nor backward. Its move ment was that of a vortex, whllo tho gray stream kept on pouring through the breach as if it were only the first flood from eomo gray lako on the other side of the breastwork. Marta had come to tho edge of the voranda, nt once drawn and repelled, feeling the fearful suspense of the combat, tho savage horror of It. and hcrBolf uttering sounds llko tho strain ing broaths of tho men. What a place for her to bo! But she did not think of that. She was there. The dreadful alchemy of war had made her a stranger to herself. She was mad; they were mad; all tho world was mad! Ono mlnuto two, porhaps not three and tho thing was over. Sho saw tho Grays being crushed back and realized that the Urowns had won, whllo tho. last details of the lessening tumult fixed her nttcntlon with their gladiatorial simplicity. Here, indeed, It was a caso of man to man with tho weapons nature gave him. "1 thought sol" cried Feller. "At tacks on frontal positions by daylight are going out of fashion!" It was ho who mercifully arrested tho shower of hand-grenades that fol lowed the exit of tho enemy. Two of tho guns of tho castle batteries, hav ing changed thoir position, were mak ing havoc onough at poTntblnnk rnngo, with a cholco of targets between tho Grays huddled on tho other side of tho brenBtwork and those In retreat. One of tho Grays, his cheek bearing tho mark of u boot heel, raised him self, and, In doflanco nnd tho Batlsfac- "You, There, In Your Straw Hat and Blue Qlouie." tlou ot tho thought to his bruises and humiliation, pointing his linger at Fel ler, Marta heard him say: "You there, in your straw hat and Mud blouse, they've scon youn mun lighting and not In uniform! If they catch you it will bo a drumhead and a llrlug squad nt dawn!' "Thnt'B o!" replied Foller gravoly. "But they'll have to make a bettor Job of it than you fellows did It they're going to" Ho turned away abruptly but did not move far. Ills shoulders relaxed Into tho gardenor's stoop, and he pulled IiIb hat down over his oyeH and low ered his head as It to hide bis faco, Ho was thus standing, lnort, when a division staff-olllcer galloped Into the grounds. "Where Is Major Dellarmo?" Whou he saw Dellarmo's still body ho dismounted nnd in a tldo ot feel ing which, for tho moment, submerged all thought ot tho machtuo, stood, head bowed and cap off, looking dowu at Dellarmo's faco, J!, WmmHm "I wnB very fond of him I Ho was at school when I was teaching there. But a good death a soldier's death I" ho said. "I'll write to hlo mother my self." Then tho voice of tho machine spoke. "Who is in command?" "I am, sir!" said tho callow lieuten ant, coming up. But tho men of the company spoke. "Bert Stransky!" thoy roared. It was not according to military etl quotte, but military ottquetto moant nothing to them now. Thoy wore above It in veteran superiority. "Where's Stransky?" demanded tho staff-officer. "You'ro looking at him!" replied Stransky with a benign grin, Seeing that Stransky was only a pri vate, tho officer frowned at tho anom aly when a lieutenant was present, then smiled in a way that accorded the company parliamentary rights, which he thought that thoy had fully earned. "Yes, and ho gots one of those Iron crosses!" put In Tom Frnglnl. "Yes tho first cross for Bert of tho Reds!" "And we'll let htm make a dozen anarchist speeches n day!" "Yes, yes!" roared tho company. "Tho ayes havo it!" the officer an nounced cheerfully. He lifted his cap to Marta. With tender record and vgravo reverence for that company, ho took extreme caro with his next ro mark lest a set of men of such dy namic spirit might rcpulso him as an Invader. "The lieutenant Is In com mand for tho prosent, , according to regulations," he proceeded. "You will retire Immediately to positions 48 and 49 A J by the castlo road. You havo done your part. Tonight you sleep and tomorrow you rest." Sleep! Rest! Whore had they heard those words before? Oh, yes, In a distant day beforo they went to war! Sleep and rest! Better far than an Iron cross for every man in tho company! Thoy could go now with something warmer In their hearts than consciousness of duty well done; but this time they need not go until their dead as well as their wounded were removed. Feller started to pass around tho corner of tho house; he was confront ed by Marta, who had come to tho end of the veranda. Thoro, within hearing of the soldiers, the dialogue that fol lowed was low-toned, and It was swift and palpitant with repressed emotion. "Mr. Feller, I saw you at tho auto matic. I heard what the wounded pri vate of tho Grays said to you and realized how true It was." "Ho Is a prisoner. Ho cannot tell." "1 feel that I havo no right to lot you go to your death by a flrlng squad," sho interrupted hurriedly, "und I shall not! For 1 decide now not to allow the telephone to remain!" "l"r he looked around nt the auto matic ravenously und fearsomcly "It Is nil simply nrranged. There is time for me to uso the telephone before tho Grays arrive, I shall tell Lanny why you took charge of tho gun.". "I've changed my mind! Exit gar donor! Enter gunner! I'm going with you!" ho cried in a Jubilant voice thnt arrested the attention of every one pn the grounds. CHAPTER XIII. From Brown to Gray. "You, Marta you arb BtiU there!" Lanstron exclaimed In alarm when ho heard hor volco over tho tunnel tele phone. "But Bafo!" ho added In re lief. "Thank God for that! It's a mighty load off my mind. And your mother?" "Safe, too." "Well, you'ro through the worst of It. There won't bo nny more fighting around tho house, and certainly West orliug will be courteous. But where Is Gustavo?" "Gonol" "Gonel" ho repeated dismally. "Walt until you hear how ho wont," Mnrta Bald. With all the vividness ot her Impressions, a partisan for tho mo ment of him and Dellarme, she Bkctchcd Feller's pnrt with the auto matic. As he listened, Lnnstron's spirit was twenty ngain. "I can seo him," he said. "It was a full breath of fresh air to the lungs ot a suffocating man. I " Marta was off In Interruption In the full tide of an nppeal. "You must I promised you must let him havo the uniform again!" she begged, "You must let him keep his automatic. To take It away would bo llko separating mothor nnd child; llko separating Minna from Clarissa Eileen." "Bettor than w. automatic a bat tery of guns!" replied Lanstron. "This is where I will use any Influence I havo with Pnrtow for all It Is worth. Yes, nnd ho shall havo tho Iron croBs. It is for uuch deeds as his that the Iron cross was mrnnt." "Thank you," alio said. "It's worth something (to make a man as happy us you will make him. Yes, you are real Jlesh and blood to do this, Lanny." Her point won with surprising easo, when she had feared that military form and law could not bo circum vented, bIih leaned against the wall in renctlou. For twenty-four hours sho had been without sleop. Tho In terest of her appeal for Foller had kept up her strength after tho excite ment of the fight for the rodoubt was over. Now thoro seemed nothing left to do. "That's flno of you, Lnnnyl" she Bald. "You've taken It like a good stole, this loss of your thousandth chance. You really believed in it, uldu you?" "Forgotten already, llko tho many other thousandth chanceu that havo failed," ho replied cheerfully. "One of tho virtues of Partow's steel au tomatons Is that, being tearless as well as passionless, they never cry over spilt milk. And now," he went on soberly, "wo must bo saying good by." "Good-by, Lanny? Why, what do you mean?" Sho was startled. "Till tho war Is ovor," ho said, "and longer than thnt, perhaps, lf La Tir remains In Gray territory." "You speak as If you thought you were going to lose!" "Not whllo many of our soldiers are alive, If thoy continue to show tho spirit that they have shown so far; not unless two men can crush ono man In the automatlcgun-recoll age. But La Tlr Is in a tangent nnd ulready In tho Grays' possession, whllo wo net on the defensive. So I should hnrdly bo flying over your garden again." "But there's tho telephone, Lanny, nnd here we are talking over it this very minute!" she expostulated. "You miiBt romovo It," he said. "If tho Grays should discover it they might form a suspicion thnt would put you In on unplensant position." The telephone had becomo almost a familiar Institution In her thoughts. Its secret had something of the fasci nation for her of magic. "Nonsense!" she exclaimed. "I am going to be very lonely. X want to learn how Foller 1b doing I want to chnt with you. So I decide, not to let It be taken out. And, you see, I linve the tactical situation as you soldiers call it, all In my favor. The work of romovnl must be dono at my end of tho lino. . You're quite helpless to enforce your wishes. And, Lnnny, It I ring tho boll you'll answer, won't you?" , "I couldn't help It!" ho replied. "Until then! You've been flno about everything today!" "Until then!" When Marta left the tower ehe knew only that sho was weary with the. mlnd-wearlness, the body-weariness, tho nerve-weariness of a spectator who ha3 sharod the emotion of every actor in a drama of denth nnd HndB the ex citement that has kept her tense no longer a sustaining force. As she wont along tho path, steps uncertain from sheer fatigue, her sen sibilities livened again at the bight of a picture. War, personal war, In the form of the giant Stransky, was knock ing at tho kitchen door. His two-days-old beard was matted with dust and there were dried red spatters on his cheek. War's furnace flamce seemed to havo tanned him; war seemed to be breathing from his deep chest; his big nose was war's promontory. But the unexposed spneo of his forehead seemed singularly white when he took off his cap as Minna came in answer to his knock. Her yielding lips were parted, her eyes were bright with in quiry nnd suspicion, her chin was flrmly set. "I camo to sco if you would let mo kiss your hand again," said Stransky, squinting. through his brows wistfully. "I seo your nose nns boon broken once. You don't want It broken a sec ond time. I'm Btronqer than you think!" Minna retorlqd, and held out her hand carelessly ps if it pleased her to humor him. He was rather graceful, despite his slzo, as he touched his lips to her fin gers. Just as he raised his head a buret of cheering rose from the yard. "So you've found that wo have gone, you brilliant intellects!" he shouted, and glarod at the wall of the house In the direction of the cheers. "Quick! You have no time to lose!" Minna warned him. "Quick! "quick!" cried Marta. Stransky paid no attention to tho urglngs. He had something more to say to Minna. "I'm going to keep thinking of you nnd seeing your face the face of a good woman while I flght. An,d when tho war is over, may I camo to call?" he asked. His feet wore so resolutely planted on the flags that apparently the only way to move thorn was to consent. "Yes, yes!" gald Minna. "Now, hurry ! ' "Say, but you make me happy I Watch mo poke It Into tho Grays for you!" he cried and bolted. Within tho kitchen Mrs. Gnllnnd was already slumbering soundly in her chair. Overhead Marta heard the exclamations of male voices and the tread, of what was literally tho heel of tho conqueror guests that had como without asking! Intruders that had entered without any process of law I Would thoy overrun the house, hor mother's room, her own room? ' Indignation brought fresh strength as she started up the stairs. Tho head of the flight gave on to a dark part of tho hall. There she paused, held by the scene thnt a score or more Gray soldiers, who had riotously crowded into the dining-room, were ennctlng. They wero members of Fracnsso's company of tho Grays whom Marta had seen from her win dow tho night beforo rushing across the road Into the garden. i When, finally, thoy burst Into the redoubt after It wns found that the Browns hnd gone, all, oven tho judge's Ron, wero the war demon's own. The veneor hnd been warped and twisted and burned off down to the raw ani mal flesh. Their brains hnd tho fevor itch of callouses forming. Not u sign of brown there In tho yard; not a sign of nny tribute after all they had en dured! Thoy had not been able to lay bauds on the murderous throwers of hand-grenadeB. Far away now was barrack-room geniality; In oblivion wero tho ethics ot an Inherited civili zation taught by mothers, teachers nnd church. But hero was a houso a house of the Browns; a big, lino Iioubo! They would soo what thoy had won this was tho privilcgo of baffled victory. What thoy had won was theirs! To tho victor tho Bpollsl Pell-mell thoy crowded Into tho dining-room, Hugo with tho rest, feeling himself a straw on tho crest of a wave, nnd Pllzor, most bfttcr, most ugly of all, his short, strong toeth nnd gums showing and his liver patch red, lumpy, and trem bling. In crossing the threshold of privacy they committed the act thnt .leaves the deepest wound ot war's In heritance, to go on from generation to generation In tho history of fami lies, "A swell dining-room I I llko tho chandeliers!" roared Pllzer. With his bayonot ho smashed tho only globe left Intact by the she'll flro. There was a laugh as a shower of glass fell on the floor. Even the Judge's son, the son of the tribuno of w They Saw Pllzer Go Down. law, Joined In. Pllzor then ripped up tho leather seat of a chair. This In troductory havoc whetted his appetite for other worlds of conquest, as the self-chosen leader of tho increasing crowd that poured through the door way. "Maybe there's food!" he shouted. "Maybe there's wine!" "Food and wine!" "Yes, wine! We're thlrBty!" "And maybe women! I'd like to kiss a pretty maid servant!" Pllzer added, starting toward the'hall. "Stop!" cried Hugo, forcing his way in front of Pllzer. He was like no ono of the Hugos of tho many parts that his comrades had Been him play. His blue eyes had be come an inflexible gray. He was stand ing half on tiptoe, his quivering muscles In tune with the quivering pitch of his voice: "We have no right In hero! This Is a private house!" "Out of the way, you white-livered little rat!" cried Pllzer, "or I'll prick tho tummy of mamma's darling!" What happened then was so sudden and unexpected that all wore vague about details. They saw Hugo in a catapultlc lunge, mesmeric In its swift ness, and they saw Pllzor go down, his leg twisted under him and his hend banging the floor. Hugo stood, half ashamed, half frightened, yet ready for another encounter. Fracasse, entering at this moment, Was too Intent on his mission to con sider the rights of a pcisonal differ ence between two of his company. "There's work to do! Out of here, quick! We are losing valunble time!" he announced, rounding his men to ward the door with commanding ges tures. "Wo are going In pursuit!" Marta, who had observed the latter part of tho acene from the shadows ot tho hall, knew that she should never forget Hugo's face as he turned on Pll zer, while his voice of protest struck a slhglng chord in her Jangling nerves. It was tlie voice of civilization, of one who could think out of the orbit of a whirlpool of passionate barbarism. She could see thnt he was about to spring nnd her prayer went with his leap. 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