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to bed. and I went down to the lower treach you see to your front. terrace where the weeds grew In Wo wont out of the field tronchee plruty. and told Robert. Homehow. I and made our way back Into tbe wood did not expect him to make fun. al My army officer companion asked mo though ws always joked about every 1 how much I knew about woodcraft thing until thia night. It was after i Because of a life given over to a con- , siderablo extent to natural history nine o'clock.” * purer Its which had carried me Into Tbo comteaao swept one hand to the wilderneea on many occasions, I ward the desert. "A moon like this— said that 1 thought I knew a little only not like this—ma chere. There Edward B. Clark Describes a Visit to the French Trenches Near something of the forest and of “signs was never but that moon to mo tor and seasons “ Then tho officer asked many years. Nancy—Noise of the Batteries Is Terrific—Men Live Under me to let him know If I discovered ”1 thought al first that Hob would ground Day in and Day Out, Yet Keep Their Spirits anything that looked unusual as we kill me be grow so white and terrible. walked through tho lights and shades Ho seemed suddenly to have aged tea Above Ground—Sees War and Peace Side by Side. . of tho birch forest. yuare. I will never forget bls cry as it :*r fir zv AW? ftw.-wr I put all my senses to work and rang out tn the night 'You will marry , never know where of the things la tried to detect some symptom that By EDWARD B. CLARK. that old man when we love each oth SYNOPSIS. tbo dhilors. I wrote about it to Mon IBtaff Correspondent of the Western going to drop. The noise la terrific, everything was not Just as It should erF I bad never known It until then. — 1S — me sieur da Habron. and hr answered Newspaper Union.) and while all the batteries along the be in an ordinary wood. I sensed “We were only children, but ho l-e Comls de Sabron. captain of French from the desert, the night before be At Lorraine's battle fronL Nancy, front may be firing at something nothing out of the ordinary, and was i cavalry, tak«w to his «jusrlern to raise by grow suddenly old. I knew It then,” tn French Lorraine, is the city at miles away, the hearer and the onlook Just about to say so when my knee I Kami a mothertaa» Irish terrier pup. and went Into battle.” da said Madame do la Maine Intensely, "I which I I left the er does not know this necessarily, but struck something hard and I looked nam«» it Mt« h«»une. 11« dines with the "And t' si's all?" urged Madame l M.irtiulae d*E»«’lignar amt meets Ml»» Ju- know It then.” train to > make if he suspects It and thinks that dan down. I was staring straight into the i Ila Hrdmond. American hetrrev He 1« or la Maine. Mho waited for a long time. Over my way under ger is remote he has full realization muxzle of a huge naval gun emplaced dered to Alfter* but la not allowed to said Miss Red moud, "That's all. ” servants or dogs Miss llrdmon«l the face of the desert there seemed to military g u I d - that a variation of an Inch or two at an angle of about thirty degrees. take takes rare of Fttrhoune. who, longing for She drank her coffee. be nothing but one veil of light. The hl» maslvr. rune away from her The ance to the bat to the right or to the left of the muz "You tell a love story very badly. alienee grow so intense, ao deep; the A Well-Concealed Gun. marquise plan» to marry Julia to the Puc tle front. This zle of one of the big guns will change do Tremont Mtchoune follow» Habron lo ma chere. ” This gun was In sn "underground Algiers, «tog an<l ma»ter moot, and Habron Arabs had stopped singing, but the town of France the direction ot the fire so that the "la it a love story ?” For a distance of at least » ’« M I in'NRl.Hi to « P hM dog with him heart fairly echoed, and Julia grow is only a few next projectile may land in bls lap. house.” Puc do Tremont finds tho American "Have you come to Africa for char meditative—before her eyes ibe cara two feet back of the muxzle tho gun ; The brtreas capricious Matron. woundrd In miles distant We reached the firing line. Now, if an engngvm««nt. falls Int«» tbe dry bod of ity? Voyons!” was shrouded with a green growth van abo waited for seemed to come out from where the people have any idea that on the mod a river and i» watched over by Pltchoune. Julia was silent. A great reserve of the moonlit mist, rocking, rocking— troops of the re ern battlefield, except on the occasions which completely concealed It. The [After a horrible night and dav Pltchoune leases him Tremont takes Julia and the seemed to seize her heart, to stifle the camels and the buddled figures of public and the of charges and countercharges, there bouse had a roof, but green things I : mar«ju!se io Algiers In hl» varhl but has troopa of the are thousands upon thousands of men were growing upon It and there was doubts aN>ut Julia*» R<-d Cnes mission her as the poverty of her love story the riders, tbelr shadows cast upon the After long »««arch Julia get» trace of Ha- struck her. Hhe sat turning her cof- sand. empire are at tn view, the idea may as well be fore absolutely nothing to tell that under bron's wherrntxiutM Julia f«»r for the jn«- the cover woe a gun pit. We entered And now Tri-mout would bo forever grips along one gone. mrnt turn» matchmnkrk* In behalf of Tre fee-spoon between her fingers, her There are two big armies in tbe house by means of some concealed m«»nt. Hanunri AI hmi eyes downcast. Hhe had ver” little changed In her mind. A man who had telle the Mar- of the moot hot the field here, and yet you don't see quloo whore be think« Hebron may be Hbe might never have any suffered from his youth, a warm hvart- ly contested them, so to speak, individually. The steps and there we found a detach found Tremont dr«'Id«-« to «o with Ham. : to tell ment of men ready to make tbe gun met Abou to find Habron . t’itchoune Yet this was her love ed boy. defrauded of bis early love. It ........... nn*1a ....... more to tell. fronts in this soldiers of France and Germany here speak when a returning air scout a Village, twelve hour» journey away, and story. But the presence of Habron seemed to her that be was a charming world war. somehow make« Fateu A....*, are eltner covered by the dense woods Anni understand should give tbe gunners directions as his master*» desperate plight I Habron was so real, and she saw his eyes figure to lead Habron. _ la It is the am- or else they are underground like so rescued bv the village men but growl clearly looking upon her as she had to just where to let a shell drop. "Therese,” she murmured, "won't hition of the many thousands of ribbits in their weaker without proper rare. It was while I was tn this gun pit aeen them often; heard tbo sound of you tell mof” French army to burrows. that rapid firing was heard at the ex his voice that meant but one thing— "They thought 1 had gons to bod.” Edward B. Clark. CHAPTER XXIII take German The cannonading la terrific and yet treme edge of the wood. The can and the words of bls letter camo back said the Comtesse da la Maine. "and 1 Lorraine and to hold it for all it Is difficult unless you happen to nonading was from a French battery to bar. Hhe remembered her letter went back to my room by a little stair Two Love Stories. time. German took this province be at the exact point where the engaged In driving off a German aero If it had not been for her absorbing to him, rescued from the field where cue. seldom used, and I found myself away from France in 1870. and France shells fall, to tell what al) the row is plane which unquestionably was seek thought of Habron. Julia would have he bad fallen Hha raised bsr eyes to alone, and I know what life wu and wants to take it back. It is probable about. In this section of the coun ing to locate this big gun which had [roveled In tbe desert and tho new ex- the Comtesse de la Maine, and there what It meant to be poor.” that the French soldiers here have try the French biplanes and the Ger- caused trouble In tbe German lines, "Ilut,” interrupted Julia, horilfled. , perioncee. As It was. its charm and was an appeal tn them. an added spirit for the fighting be man taubes make their high and lofty but whose position the enemy had The Frenchwoman leaned over and "girls are not sold In the twentieth magic and the fact that he traveled cause fair Lorraine, their one-time excursions for tbe purpose of detect been unable exactly to determine. aver It helped her to endure the Inter kissed Julia. Hhe asked nothing more. century." possession, is the prize at stake. ing some point tn the enemy's line The next day from a rock rising al val. Hhe had not learned her lessons tn It was not my thought that 1 should which it is considered the part of "They are sometimes tn France, my most sheer to a height of nearly seven discretion to no purpose. see any of the real battling until I war wisdom to bombard. It may be a dear. Robert wu only seventeen. Ills In the deep Impenetrable silence she hundred feet 1 looked through tbe At night they sat out In the moon father laughed at him, threatened to reached the actual front, but strange blockhouse hidden In the woods but •eemed to hear her future apeak to clear air toward Metz, the capital ot | her. Hhe bullevod that It would either light. white as day. and the radiance ly enough perhaps I saw fighting of commanding some pathway through send him to South America. Wo were German Lorraine, which with its cir ' i be a wonderfully happy one. or a hope over the sands was like the snow a kind which 15 years ago could not the trees, which has been discovered victims.” cling fortresses is the prize most cov flowers. Wrapped in tbelr warm cov have been witnessed, and I saw it by the sky pilot When such is the lessly withered life. “It wu the barvest moon,” con eted by tbe French. Tbe artillery of , erings. Julia and Therese de la Maine from a hotel window in the big city case the artillery will open as accu- . I cannot ride any farther!” Iky on the rugs before the door of tinued Madame de la Maine gently, the republic emplaced on a ridge to 1 sf Nancy. The windows of my room rately as possible upon the spot des- the right and a little in advance of'"' "and It shone on us every night until axclaltned the comtesse. their tent, and above their beads thia position has succeeded in reach- ; She was an excellent horsewoman shone the stars so low that It seemed my wedding day. Then the duke kept ing with its shells one of the moet 1,1had ridden all her life, but her as though their hands could snatch his threat and sent Robert out ot formidable forts BiaiJUlUK standing guard r,*Hog “ of late bad ronalstrd of a can them from the sky, At a little die- France. lie continued bls studies In Dl« IDTU Kumu over Viet .............. ' vunmn u Wl a < UB When the French break down, j !or *n *he Bola de Boulogne at noon. tance their servants sat around the England and went into the army of Metz. 1 ____________________________ if they can break down, the defenses j*nd It was sometimes hard to follow dying fire, and there came to them the Africa ." There was a silence again. of Metz, an army will spring from the . Julia's tireless gallops toward an ever plalntlvo song of Azrael, is ba led ”! did not see him until last year,” ground and advance toward tbe Ger lisappearfng goal. their singing: said .Madame de la Maine, "after my "Fbrglv' me." said Miss Redmond, man goal of its ambition. Metz, how- And who can give again the love of yea- husband died." ever, while really only a few miles and brought her horse up to her terday? Can a whirlwind replace the sand aft or It away, is a long ways off, because be friend's side. Is scatlon-d? tween the outermost French lines and CHAPTER XXIV. It was tbe cool of the day. of the What ran heal the heart that Allah has the city of desire lies a German army, fourteenth day since Tremont had left smitten? The Meeting. and right here on thia line within j Algiers and the seventh day of Julia's Can the mirage form again when there are no eyra to see? the next few days or weeks, or per excursion Under the sun, under the starry A fresh wind blew from "I was man led," said Madame de la nights Tremont, with hie burda-n. jour haps even months, there is sure to the west, lifting their veils from their come fighting of a quality so fierce as telmets and bringing the fragrance of Maine, "when 1 was sixteen.” neyed toward the north The halts to put all other fighting along thia ithe mimosa Into whose scanty forest Julia drew a little nearer and smiled were distasteful to him, and although 500-mlle line into the class with things . they had ridden ho was forced to rest be would rather The sky paled to to herself In the shadow. tame. have been cursed with aleeplosaness ward sunset, and the evening star, Thia would be a real love story, Views the Battlefield. second In glor;- only to the moon. "1 had Just come out of the con- and have journeyed on and on. lie From where I stood there Is a bird's- hung over the west vent. We lived In an old chateau. rode his camel like a Bedouin; he grow eye view of a great battlefield. We Although both women kuew per- older than the history of your coun brown like the Bedouins and under the made an early start in order to be jfectly'well the reason for this excur- try, ma chere. and I had no dot Rob hot breezes, swaying on his desert able to climb this needle-like rock be- ision and Its Importance, not one word ert do Tremont and 1 used to play to ship, he sank into dreamy, moody and fore the sun was high. This hill la j had been spoken between them of gether In the til lees of the park, on melancholy reveries, like the wander called Mousson, and on its crown Habron and Tremont other than a the ti rrace. When his mother brought ing men of the Sahara, and felt him there is a chapel built in tbe eleventh natural Interest and anxiety. him over when she called on my self part of the desolation, as they century and which affords a fair and They might have been two hospital grandmother, he teased me horribly were. commanding mark for the enemy's ar nurses awgltlng their patients. "What will be. will be!” Ilatnmet because the weeds grew between the Big French Guns In Action. tillery. Tbe Germans for some rea Abou said to him a hundred times, and They halted their horses, looking Tremont wondered: "Will Charles live faced east I was at the top of the ignated by the flying machine scout, son or other have left this pinnacle .over toward the western horizon and to see Algiers?*' hotel. The view before me was un and then after the shells have rained alone for the main part. On occasions jits mystery. "The star «lines over broken to the hills eastward under for a while there will be an advance they send shells over it, and today tbelr caravan," mused Madame de la Habron Journeyed In a litter carried was one of the ocacslons. A shell Maine (Julia had not thought Therese whose shadow the German troops are of infantry to capture the position. between six mules, and they traveled passed over my head while I was poetical), "as though to leai" them slowly, slowly. Tremont rode by the lying. Seated by the window just be Labyrinths cf Barbed Wire. It did not seem possible to me that climbing the rock. I heard its whiz borne." sick man's side day after day. Not fore sunset I heard in quick succes sion the reports of a fusillade. I there was so much barbed wire In this zing distinctly, and Instinctively I once did the soldier for any length of Madame de ia. Maine turned her face I looked out and in the air at a distance big world of ours as is strung along crouched, much to the amusement of land time regain his reason. He would pass Julia «aw tears in her eyes. The of perhaps a mile a German taube through the woods and fields of this the French army-officer who stood at Frenchwoman's control vai usually from coma to delirium, and many was wheeling and dodging in the part of France. It is a deadly wire, my side. "The thing you hear,” he perfect, she treated most things with times Tremont thought he had ceased I.............. half a i mocking gayety midst of showers of shrapnel. There for it has more prickles than any burr said, “never hits you. Its to breathe. Hlonder, emaciated under -------- - J The b'lght t-oftness ------ tbe were 29 shells fired in less than as that grows in the fields, and these mile past you before you • hear his covers, Habron lay like the Image of her eyes touched Julia. many seconds—at least so it seemed. prickles are of steel. The wire is sound.” of a soldier In wax—a wounded man "Therese!” exclaimed the Ameri In climbing the hill of Mousson The projectiles burst about the flying strung into labyrinths through which carried as a votive offering to the can girl. "It Is only fourteen days!” machine seemingly only a few yards it is impossible to thread one’s way there are many places where one is altars of desert warfare. Madame de la Mabie laughed. There away from it and yet so far as I could except under guidance. Back of these out from undercover. Walking up the was a break In her voice. "Only four (TO HE CONTINUED.) discover it withstood the hail unhurt mazes of barbed wire are the trenches, hill was difficult, but running was more teen days." she repeated, “and any and in these trenches are the soldiers than difficult, and yet I had to run be one of those days may mean death!" Things That Have Been Condemned. Watches a Cloud Battle. If we banished from our tables all As each shell burst a wreath of of France, although you do not know tween the covered points. On this She threw back her head, touched the commodities which — like pota light smoke formed, perfect In con- it until you drop down Into their hill we were within range, not only of her stallion, and flew away like light, shell fire but of small rifle Are, and tour, and as sightly as all things are midst. toes—have been condemned In print, and it was Julia who first drew rein. which follow the curved lines of beau Here they are with their periscopes the journey up and down had its un our diet would be decidedly monoto "Therese! Therese! We cannot ty. There was not a breath of air stir watching and waiting in the lull times pleasant moments. nous. "Food faddists are most aggres go any farther!" When half-way down this Rock of ring, and the crowns of smoke touched for a chance to pick off a foeman sive persons,” Henry Labouchere once "Lady!" said Azrael. He drew his by the setting sun were Ilka halos. who is looking through his periscope Mousson the cannonading grew louder. complained. "In my time I have known big black horse up beside them. "We There were 29 shells fired, and each in a trench some hundreds of yards The truth was that a new battery had them preach that we should give up must go back to the tents.” gave forth its wreath of smoke, and away. This is like squirrel shooting. opened, one much nearer to us than meat, tobacco, alcohol, soup, starch Madame de la Maine pointed with the last one had burst before the Probably not more than seven or tbe guns which had been thundering (Including bread and potatoes), salt, her whip toward the horizon. "It is smoke crown gave the least sign of eight men are killed in 21 hours by before. We looked down from the hill tomatoes, bananas, strawberries and cruel! It ever recedes!” disintegration, It was a war sight, but this sharpshooting process, but the side to the village of Pont-a-Mousson bath buns. 1 have also witnessed • •••••• Into it was appealing. soldiers indulge in it all the time in which lay nestling at our feet. movements for giving up boots, waist At Night They Sat Out In the Moon- "Tell me, Julia, of Monsieur de The German taube finally turned order to make their enemy keep under the village the shells were pounding. coats, hats, overcoats, carpets, feather light. Sabron," asked Madame de la Maine and planed down behind the hill and ground, and If they can, to make All that we could see was clouds of beds, spring mattresses, cold baths abruptly. was lost to my sign* I knew that it them keep their hearts underground dust and smoke mingled as we knew linen clothes, woolen clothes, sleeping stones of our terrace, lie was very “There is nothing to tell, Therese. ’ with mortar, stone fragments, and went well within the German lines, with them. more than six hours, sleeping less rude. "You don't trust me?" the ground powder of plaster. but whether its crew of two men es Keep Up Their Spirits. than nine hours and lighting fires at "Throughout our childhood, until I "Do you think that, really?” caped injury or not, I do not know. I do not understand how men can Short Ereathing 8pace. was sixteen, we teased each other the bottom.” In the tent where Azrael served The French were content perhaps that live underground day in and day out We reached the foot of the bill, en and fought and quarreled." their battery had driven the enemy and keep their spirits aboveground. tered a military automobile, and were them their meal, under the celling of Soma Lost Motion. "This is not a love-affair, Theresa,” back into his own lines and had pre The French are doing it, however, and whirled Into Pont-a-Mousson. A Philadelphia mathematician has The Turkish red with Its Arabic charac said Mies Redmond. vented the dropping of bombs into the I suppose by the same token that the cannonading had ceased and the vil ters iu clear white, Julia and Madame "There are all kinds, ma chere, as figured It out |hat the telephone com streets of Nancy, or perhaps the tak Germans are doing it also. Once in lagers, men, women and children, de la Maine sat while their coffee was there are all temperaments,” said panies lose 125 hours' work every day served them by a Ryrlan servant. ing of observations which might have a while they get surcease from stag again going about the streeta. through the use of the word "please” No "A girl does not come Into the Sa Madame de la Maine. "At Assump by all operators and patrona. Another been of assistance to the foe. nation by an order to charge. It is one knew, however, when the fusillade tion—that Is our great feast, Julia— It was the next day after this cloud an event, the effect of which in buoy- would begin again. It did begin hara and watch like a sentinel, does the Feast of Mary—It comes tn Au has discovered that the froth on the battle scene that I went to the front. ance of spirits lasts for weeks, when again, not long after we left the town, not suffer as you have suffered, ma beer pays the freight But as yet no gust—at Assumption, Monsieur de la It is not far from Nancy L. .he firing one side of the other takes a single and 20 people met their death inside chere. without there being something one has estimated the total horse Maine came to talk with my grand line, and long before you come to the trench from the enemy and holds it of an hour from the time the first to tell.” mother. He was forty years old, and power wasted In swallowing cigarette "It Is true,” said Miss Redmond, place where the shells are fired you smoke and forcing It through the nose There is a curious looking telescope gun spoke. bald—Hob and I made fun of his rMv "and would you be with me. Therese, get to the place where the shells drop. in use In the French trenches. At Instead of blowing It from the mouth. Pont-a-Mousson Is not fsr from Metz. hairs, like the children in the Holy —Newark Nows. It could not have been more than four first sight I thought It was a silver The same river supplies «Ster to both If 1 did not trust you? And what da Bible.” miles out of town before the pound mounted flute, for it looks like a flute cities. One Is In France and the oth* you want me to tell?” she added Julia put out her hand and took the ing of the guns hit my ears and hit more than anything else. Instead of er is in Germany. The French say naively. Scandinavian Housekeeping. hand of Madame de la Maino gently. The comtesse laughed. them in a most unpleasant way. When looking through the "flute” lengthwise that before the snow flies sgaln both In Scandinavia the peasant wom She was getting so far from a love "Vous etes charmante, Julia!” the tenderfoot goes forth to war the you look though It "sidewise,” and in cities will be In France, and that both en who worked all day In tbo fields, “I met Monsieur de Sabron," said affair. tenderness of bis feet is likely to find it you see mirrored the rough line will belong to France for all time, I have had their tireless methods of "I married Monsieur de la Maine In companionship with the tenderness of which shows the outer edge of the Ger do not know whether this will prove Julia slowly, "not many months ago In cooking for a long time. While break six weeks,” said Therese. bls heart. In other words, the heart man intrenchments, but you don't see true or not, but I do know that all Tarascon. I saw him several times, fast was cooking, the pot containing “ Oh, ” breathed Miss Redmond, "hor sinks into the boots where the feet any Germans unless yjp watch care along this line it French are fight and then he went away." the stew for dinner was brought to "And then?" urged Madame de la rible!" are. fully for a long time. Then you see ing with a doubt strengthened heart,, a boll then placed Inside a second Madame de la Maine pressed Julia's Noise Is Terrific. a little movement perhaps and then and perhaps v ,h a doubly strength MaJjie eagerly. pot. and the whole snugly ensconced hand. "He left his little dog, Pltchoune, The trouble with the Infernal shell a rifle at your right or left speaks, ened ferocity. between the feather beds, still warm They want Lorraine, "When It was decided between my with “ me, and Iiraiuuiii Pltchoune I ran after ui» bls w— ... .„iu I*, nuu ail «nei ing as far as It affects the man who and then you know that possibly there ■ and t Lorrain« . «key are (olnf to get If m„tM. t0 MsrsMBes. flfnidnir himself gv^ndmother and the romte, I escaped from the night's occupancy. Some of la going forth to see It, is that you Is a dead or a wounded man in the valor can w n IL these woman had a loosened hearth Into the water, and was rescued by a night, after they thought I had gone stone and r. hole beneath. ni5 LOVE 5TODY MACIE VAN VOIZ51^r> ILLU5TPAT1ON>(^PAYWALTER5