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FRANK H. SIMONDS'WRITES OF CAMPAIGNS OF 1915 OTHER
JDUNAJEC, THE SECOND
GREAT BATTLE OF THE WAR
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Frank Simonds Explains Hoiv the Making of Miltcl-
Europa Dates From Mackcnsen's Victory
in Calicia
T WONDER how much lonner the
German people will cofisent to
fight a loslns war," said Doctor Mc
Fabre. He had just been reading of
our progress In raising an army and
getting It to France.
"But do they think they are losing?" j
I asked.
"Ot bourse they do," said Owen, wlth-i
out waiting for the doctor to reply. '
"I would not be .too sure about that.'"
said I. "Look at what they have done, j
They have succeeded everywhere pave ,
on the western front and they have
held their own there for nearly four1
years. They have created nii the war
map a Central European empire, ex
tending from the North Sea nearly I
to Bagdad, and their armies are tak
ing more of Russia almost every.
week. Now that they are confronted I
with the certainty of having to meet,
a powerful Ameilcan army they may
begin to have some doubts of the final
outcome, but the success of their
armies has been such as to keep their
.courage up." I
"I had not thought of it in that ,
light before." Pocfir McFahre ad-1
mltted.
"Most of us have Ignored the Ger
man successes In thp east and have
regarded the western front as the only
important field of operations, t havm
Just been leading the second ntume
of Frank II. Simonds's history of the,
war which deals with the making of
Middle Euiopp. If jou want to have'
your thinking clarified ou might toj
read It. Mr. Simonds discusses the!
campaigns of l'Jln anil their effect mil
the creation of a Central Kuropp tn j
empire. So m.tnv things litup h.p-j
pened since l!)lj that those of us who'
have been following the war from day i
to day are in danger of losing sight'
of the significance of the events of the
past. Mr. Simonds's book will lefreshl
our memories.
"You may be inteiested in a brief
resume of his main points. The Her
mans at the beginning planned to'
destroy the French military power in
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a short campaign and then to dispose
of the Russians at their leisure. The
resistance of the Belgians enabled the
French to mobilize their armies and to
organize resistance. The German ef
fort failed at the battle of the Marne,
which Mr. Simonds Justly descrihes as
one ot the great decisive battles of the
world. In the course of the succeed
ing winter they concluded that It
would be Impossible for the British to
get a formidable force In the field for
another vear. nnd they planned an
eastern campaign. They proposed to
dispose of Russia and then turn to
France again. In accordance with
this plan they took troops from the
western front and massed them on
the east and they fought another bat
tle which Mr. Simonds also calls one
of the great hattles of the world, on
nccount of the events which flowed
fiom It. What battle do you suppose
that .was?"
"The taking of Warsaw?" hazarded
Doctor McFabre.
"No. It was the battle ot Duna
jec." said I.
"I never heard of it," Owen re
marked. "The Germans call it the battle of
Gorllce."
"That does not help me." said Doctor
McFabre.
"The Dunajec." I explained, "Is a
tributary of the Vistula which rises
in the mountains east of Cracow.
The Russian army was massed be
tween the Dunajec nnd the Blala, a
tributary of the Dunajec. The Rus
sian line ran south fiom Poland and
made an elbow at this point where It
extended east Into tlallcla. General
Mackensen elaborated Hip, tactics of
Field Marshal French at Neuve Cha-pellt-
a few months earlier, and suc
ceeded where French failed. The Hrlt
ih commander massed "On heavy guns
on a front of a mile, and by unprece
dented 'drum file' swept away the Ger
man ti caches and barbed whe and
opened the load to Lille. His reserves
failed to at rive and he was unable to
pursue the advantagf he had gained.
General Mackensen massed "000 guns
of the heaviest caliber before the Rus
sian lines at the Dunajec. and sup
poiteil them by an Immense army.
He hammered his way tluough. forc
ing the Russians to retieat on a long
front and compelling their flanks to
withdraw In order to preserve the line.
When he had broken the line he then
reconquered Gallcia at his leisure and
diove the Russians out of Poland.
"Mr. Simonds says that the Russian
revolution became a certainty as soon
as the Germans had won at Dunajec.
The Russian military power was de
stroyed then and it was certain that
the people would not consent much
longer to the rule of the dynasty which
had brought such disaster upon them.
In addition, this battle freed Germany
from the serious menace of attack in
the east. It encouraged the Germans
to complete In the Balkans the work
of opening the way to Constantinople
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by the destruction of Serbia and the
binding of Bulgaria o their chariot
Wheels. Dunajec was the battle which
made Mltteleuropa a possibility, nnd
It was the battle which made the
Germans to believe that they were
winning the war and could not be
defeated."
"They must be learning hetter now,"
Doctor McFabre lemarked.
"I hope so," said I. "But It will
take time to convince a nation which
has had the war map held up before
it showing Its victories, but the day
will come whfen those victories must
be turned to defeats. The blunders
of the British have conspired to con
firm the Germans In their view In
the summer ot 1915 when the Ger
mans were busy on the eastern front
it would have been possible for the
English to break through the west
ern front If the men sent to Gal
lipoll had been sent to France instead,
and If the shells wasted there had been
fired at the Germans. The Fiench nnd
British could then have gained ground
that the Germans could not have won
hack again, in Mr. Simonds's wpinlon
"The merit of this history lies in
Its .evident impartiality. Mr Simonds
studies the politics and diplomacy as
well as the military moves with the
calmness of a student completely de
tached fiom the conflict. His con
clusions may have to be levlsed when
we have fuller evidence, hut tbev nre
just and fair so far as thp testimony
at hand makes possible. Of course
he does not confine hlmelf to the de
feat of Russia. There are chapters on
the submarine campaign, on Hip en
trance of Italy into the war. on the
battles of Ypres. on the Galllpoll fiasco
and on the campaigns in the Balkans
It cloves with the end of 1015. The
next volume will take up Verdun and
the campaigns which revolved about
that great siege. Mr. Simonds Is mak
ing what Is probably the best war
I
history that was ever written about a '
war while It was in progiess" '
GEORGE W. DOl'GLAS.
MISTOKY OK THK Wcmi.n VVAtt m
Frnnk It Slnmn.ls Kull lllusti n ird
Vol II Th MnUtiK ot .Mldrtk Hump,
(larrlen city Itoubl'di.v. Pai:- ,t Co
t.l .Ml
Acting As a Science As Well
As an Art
Attempts in the past to reduce to
writing the science of acting have been
few and uniformly unsuccessful Most
octnrs have been bad witter and worse
scientists in that they have found them
selves mute when trylnc to express the
principles which guide their ait. even
when they had any ver definite or s.vs
lemallc Ideas about the reasons why and
vvherefnte they were ahle to convince
audiences with their Impersonation-
Not so longer Louis Calvert, one of
the most scholarly and capable actors
on thp KnRlish-i'ppaklnK Ftapp of th
pr5-pnt prnetation, has Issued a tnn(Jp.t
ntume urulVr the title "PtoblemP of the
A'tor." which t a complete and pcirn
tirtcallv arranped treatise upon this dif
ficult and elusive art. To call il thus If
not to be taken to mean that it lt a dry
or prosy pet nf rules whereby the paukv
tyro can bemme a second Irvine or Jef
ferson. Kar fiom that. It is a charmine
Htudy or the experiences and factors in
the professional life of the author, told
with a delightful brpeziness of Mle that
amuses as well as instructs and en
lightens. Mr. Calvert is well known to the place
of Philadelphia. New York and London.
uhpre he has appeared In notabln pro
ductions He has brought to a tine phv
sique and speaking olce a stiong per
sonality and quick intelligence, a skill In
exposition that belong. properly to the
teacher Ar.ybodv leading the book must
realize that to become a ieall first-ratp
actor ivnulres brains as well as good
looks lr is a volume which no admirer
of the drama in its best estate will wish
tr miss leading and adding to the rap
inly growing collection of worth-while
books coering this long-neglected branch
of art
PROBLEMS OK THK ACTOR Rv I,ou. i 'al
ter t. wtth an Introduction bv dnvton
Hamilton. Xpw York. Henn Holt ii Co.
Il.ti
History in the Making I
Some nf the most fascinating pages (
In American history are those which (
hae never been written They deal'
with diplomatic incidents that have
swaed foreign policy and at times hae
been fraught with grarst consequences
for the l nlten States. The general pub-
llc knows nothing nf these quirks In our
international relationships and the In-
trigues behind many of them ; they haxe .
not founrt tliPlr way Intn ,-iny of our
formal histories
Some of the most picturesque of thee
Int'hlents are very entertainingly nar
rated hy Ralph PaRp In "Dramatic SIo
ments In American Diplomacy." No at
tempt at completeness has heen made.
But the collection will undouhtedly add
materially to the reader's knowledge of
the circumstances that hae shaped the
direction of national conduct and con
tributed to the makliiK and unmakine
of personal fame The author noes back
to the neBinninBS 01 American nisiory
for his earlier episodes, and brings the
series down to the Manila Bay Incident
series uown 10 llie lumiii naj inuieui.
of the German fleet.
..n-v.. in.wu stnrv of Panama" Ik one
of the most Inteiestlnc chapters. The
leading role played ny tne rencn inoe-
pendent Hunau-Varilla, In guiding the were greater events than buihe shells
revrlutlon against Colombia, and In de- which lore great craters In the aith.
terminlng the course of President noose- and submarines which never mavn.il
velt Is described with much dramatic jed caused the author's -es tn bulge
effectiveness. Other chapters show fier- vvith boyish wonder and excitement,
inany's determination, before the war.. Those who anticipate a dramatic rr
to test the Monroe Doctrine, and dem- ' ,.tBl of stirring events that have umde
onstrate by Incidents from the past the ' nstory will be disappointed in the
Interdependence between the L'nited book. Those who share with ' outh the
States and Oreat Britain. The book sheds f.,cujty of finding adventure In the
fresh light on many moot pages of our ; comrnonplace will find the spirited nar
hlstory. and has the thrill and fasclna- rat)ve entertaining. .
tlon of a capital detective tale.
nnAMATli" MOMENTS IN AMKRIL'AN III
,D"toMACT. ny Ralph rase Oarden City.
Doubleday. Taee Co. il 25.
Western Adventure
A turbulent tale of the wild and woolly
West, with enough gunplay and furious
rldlne to appease the most voracious
appitlte for excitement. Is told by Dane
Coolldge In "The FIgh ting Fool." The
n.n9 are crowded with Arizona "bad
men." Mexican outlaws, desperate cow-
' .. w...... I
nnn ail Rfirm nf . t-Ar-Uloca
Dunciieie. - -- .w,.w
lawieesness.
from the gentle pastime
of "shooting up" a town to robbing the
through express or us goiaen treasure.
All of these adventures are spun
about the career of Syc Brown, "the
outflghtlngest fool In Arizona," who,
prompted by personal affection for his
chief and the sheer love of a fight, be
comes deputy marshal in a frontier town,
aids In restoring order by strong-arm
methods, turns blithely to train-robbing.
Is enmeshed In the tolls of the law, re
deems himself by the capture of a Mexl
can murderer, and wins an Indian bride
who has captured his fancy.
It would be captious to insist upon
literary quality In a forthright tale like
this. It lo a "rattlng good yarn,"
brimming oyer with excitement, and the
author writes with a verve and as
surance that amply demonstrate his In
timate familiarity witu the folk, and
. -f- 4 k.' Cam WaU.. - -
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- -,
1 I! k II. SIMOND.S
WHEN THE TANKS I
FIRST APPEARED
A Yankee Describes llnw the
New Machines Terrified
the Germans
The life nf a sobher on the rrnnt. not
only its dark, toil it... lipht side. Is
vividly pictured In- I'orpnial I!. Ivrb.v
Holmes In his "A Yankee in the
TienehPH" A notion man, he enlist' d
In an Knglish leeiment Mvm ve.ns ;ik
and w.xs sent to the French front
Patrol vmk wn. hl pi mciiml up.i-
tlon. In.t he tnnk pirt in shm-hiI attack".
In two nf which he wa wnumleil. in
one of these attack he had an epoii
encc absolutely unp.llalleled. F.llH- in
the moinlng thrie lame fiom the icar.
he says, "a tremendous whining, bull
ing, rumbling buzz, like a swaini o
giant bee." It was made b fie tank;
"an absolutely new thing t
secret had been pu.irded
s Their
larefitlty
een in our own army that
our bat-
talion had heard nothing of them '
He
gives a remarkabh intM eating
and
thrilling description of the way in which
the one he followed clojelv numbed the authors for the development of Pan-f.er-Oerman
trenches, causing "the grabacks . mama and its dating asaults upon the
to swatm up out of shelters and dug-
outn lltetally In hundreds and hold up
their hands, whining. "Mercy Katne
iad'). 1 When on pattol dut one night some
of the mpn with him stormed a !er
nian trench "and they brought bark the
hody of a man nailed to a t ude riiiciftx
The man was the sergeant I had talked
to earlier In the night
What had hap-
pened was this He had. no doubl
been taken bv a Herman p.i'rol. Prob-
, ably he had refued to answer questi'uis
Perhaps he had Insulted an ofiicer. The
medical otficer who viewed the bodv
said that without question the man had
been crucified alive. A No It was said
that !he same thing had happened be- author'- have devnted valuable spate In
fore." With his enmtades. the P.titish one of the later t hapten to a discussion
"Tommies," and their slangy and at of the vapoiing of Norman Angell. even
times rather ulgar way of talking, one though thfir puipo-e has been to em
gets well acquainted nnd agiees with phasize the etise of false Mcutitv felt
him tha they aie "loyal and luave and' by those who lived tn a "fool's patadise"
hard fighters.'' befnie hostilities began Such pett con-
A YA.VKKK IN THi: 'IFJKM'UKS Rv K Itioversy has no legitimate place in a
rrhv Holme, torprral of th Twentv 'book dealing with niajoi affaii and In-
PA.nn.l Lonrlrm Hatiijtlnii of the Ouon , l(,nflrfi nH a "otk of permanent his-
Itoval -t Surre RpRinvnt ItiUMt raterl iri"" ""
from phntotciHphs. Itnaton Llttl". Itruwn toriral value.
x. i'.i 11 as
-
An American Boy in France
A sventeen- ear-old Princeton freh-
nnnaiia ..nt1'i,n.cii n.tunc nr uB
arUn,.c in th.' v.nPH,,n' mh..in,J
V ' " Fran,; u r m t fl i S .
months of 1017 In "Amhulanc 4fit " I When the war is oxer and the time
I.Ike many other volunteers In the am- ' for the reckoning arrives Germany s ter
hulance. he confesses that after at- uhle debt will be determined, not by the
lug high school, he found his job. "after i shrillness or olume nf anathema, hut h
sK long month, becoming monotonous, the pitiless. Impersonal marshaling nf
and I was aching to get away. f try concrete facts, by the Implacable record
my hand at something else " And so. he of Indisputable evidence It Is doubtless
iiavs. "It didn't take much to urge me , In anticipation of this Inevitable dav nf
on arter reading a piea tor amnuiance
workers.
The narrator's exper.ences were 1 pl
cal nf those nf scores of other youths
nho were animated to olunteer a', am-
bulancn drivers, partly by a desire
aid heroic France, partly In a spirit
neslre to
nf
"i' ii-iv... . -- -.
adxenture He found everylhlnK inter-
estlnir. and recounts every scrap of news.
every Incident In the dally round, with
unnapTKinK trr.i
Letters from home
fuiely Illustrated. New Vork The Mac
mlllan Compnn). 1 nn.
Health Without Drugs
New health theories are likely to be
viewed askance by the public. Long ex-
' , has taUght us ,
I ...',. 0r,,,'. f ,h,
hat the over-
these enthuslas-
. exploited "systems"
uc p
I .' , ... i...,,.i
are proved
be the veriest
quackery The Irreverent are particu-
' . , 'ned . huri the slang epithet
..-- .,
.. n rt-ins nrnnhofH ivnn venlUrA In
I . ,r...npri wlth tt cosmic philosophy
p,,. ....... .... ", , ,
which involves spiritual anu nieniai
oniittlhrlum as
well "as physical neaitn.
Since this ambitious undertaking Is
the object of Dr. Alma C. Arnold in
"The Triangle of Health " the cautious
person is likely to approach it with mis
givings, If not suspicion. The surprise
Is all the more delightful, consequently,
to find that the little book contains noth
ing that conflicts -with the Inner prompt
ings of common sense. The basis of the
author's system of drugless medicine is
chiropractice, but whether the reader is
(or or against this method, the author's
remarks about exercise and diet appear
to be eminently sound and reasonable.
Food, exercise and thought constitute
the trinity governing' the trinity of soul,
brain and body, and It Is the author's
aim to shqw their interdependence and
cepnevv.wtu , r
JS T.KIAWHk 'MWanjC ."J-,
"x
THE GROWTH OF
PAN-GERMANIA
The Roots of the War Exposed
in a History of Europe From
1,170 to 1911
No nnr in the Immtv nf the worlo
has had Its orimn in causes more , nm.
p!c than those tespnusihle for the pres
ent michtiest of all armed conflicts
Some of these causes have been dis
cussed separately bv various authors
in special phases unite other writers
have viewed the snuggle fioni some spe
cific ancle, dealing with Its mllllai.v
-peels. Its diplomatic bacUa-mod or
lis M-onomic fejilutes The authors of
The limits of the Wnt"- thlee pro
fessors in the I'niversilvof Minnesota
inovlde a clear uell.bal.in.efl Bi.oiiil
sin ev of antecedent hlstoiv dining the
-flftv-vear opor'l hefore the war, the
f I book Is suicinetlv and accurately de
i scribed in the subtitle as "A Noti-Tcch-
nlial lllsinrv of Kuropp H7"-1!H1 A P"
The undvlnR hate between France and
iieim.inv. the more lecent ennillv be-
iAPii Uriat Hiftaiu and (!rman and
Mil' niont piobleni of the Halkuus arw
tin Ihiee haMc reasons assigned bv (he
civilized world Thev follow the de-
v iou
nuise of these factors n-id forces
In many pl.it es. discussing uch things
a the poc of HismarcK. the desire to
fall heir to the dying "Sick Man of
Kurnpe," the consolidation of modern
Itah the dtscontnnt elements In Aus
tt in-llungarv . affaits in France after
tb fall if the ihiid rmphe, the failure
of The Hague Peace Conference. Russian
pnMi nnd the e p nf the final atnc'ysm
The pn-spectiw of the book is fop the
nioM pait admuahle The arlnun his
tot leal incident which might in any
way thtmv light on the struggle are
molded with meticulouq ft gat d for
truth Hut it Is unfortunate that the
IHK ROOTS OK THK WAR Rv William
J t earn "IMS Wlin npeciti nmpipri i
Willi tm Anderson nnd Mnpon W Tv lr
With i mnw New Yrk The iVnturj
fumpanv It
h.r i..f t. : .
r rifitUJ Uincs uvnuu
rerkonlng that the two companion
volumes "The German Tel ror in Belgium"
and "The (leiniau Tenor in Fiance"
h.ive been written Based squarel.v nn
otlicial reports, they furnish a concrete
and consecutive account of the delib
erately planned, inexorably consummated
campaign nf "frigbtfulness" which
marked the early day of the German
Invasion of France and Belgium
The scope nf the new volume dealing
with France Is Indicated hy the chapter
luadlngs: "From Liege to the Marne."
"Between Namur and Vet dun." "The
Bald Into Lorraine." "From Mallnes to
the Vser." It continues the narrative
fiom the point at which ft was suspended
in the earlier hook The author Is con
cerned with the militaiy campaign only
Incidentally. His chief purpose Is to
make the woild lealize fully the extent
ano savagery nf the German atrocities,
and while he recapitulates material that
has long since been made familiar, the
cumulative eltect achieved la powerful
and profound
THU r,RHMAN TERROR IN KRANCK By
Arnold J. Toynb with maps and Illus
tration New York. Georua n. Doran
Cumpuny, $1.
Letters of a Soldier
The rplrlt In which the youth of
America Is entering the war I? admir
ably leflected In a little sheaf of "Let
ters from an American Soldier to His
Father." now published, with virtually
no editing, other than the elimination of
Irrelevant personalities. The letters are
from Curtis Wheeler. Second Lieutenant
of Field Artillery. V. P. n.. to his father.
Kdvvard J. Wheeler, editor of Curren
Opinion.
There is little fresh information about
the war In the letters, and the clash of
battle Is negligible In them. But they
do exemplify the high spirit and youth
ful zest of the author In a manner that
should Inspire potential soldiers In the
army of democracy and their parents
and friends with hope and cou"rage. The
letters reveal the fact that the writer's
tnoughtB were centered more on artistic
tastes Oa'sw-orthv d Arno'd Ben
nett. Carlyle and Grieg's music than
on the grim things of war Yet when
the time comes '"" service he is ready,
and the note of good cheer Is pervasive
and Infectious to the last.
HSreRS "? e'ERtAN 2M?EB
fm -giff A"t"J"A'- ' vim wva
WAR BOOKS
SOME VERSE
OF WARTIME
Poetry, Goad, Bad and Indif
ferent, Owes Its Inspiration
to the Great Conflict
War poetry nf commanding greatness
Is seldom born until long after the heat
of the conflict has waned. The really,
notable poems evoked thus far by the
war might be counted on one's fingers,
although the llteiature of Action,
description nnd es.ay have been en
riched by a number of works nf strik
ing power, that owe their origin direct I)
to the struggle.
Traces of sincerity and vitality may
be found In. a few of the latest books
of war poem, hut for th mol part
thev do not require detailed analls or
'eminent It is said that Captain Cyril
Morton Home's "Songs nf the Shrapnel
Shell' were written tinder lire In the
lieiicheo A mind distracted and
In mused bv the imminence of death !
not in the ideal nmorl for the creation
of poeli.v, but Captain Home has writ
ten some gnorl verse The most spon
taneous and sincere tilings In the book
are "To the Lnve nf a Year Ago." with
Ms haunting w istfulnes'. and "llngland."
obviously written In the glow of pas
sionate pilde and love
Theio l a far lasler lilt, and far
greater vitality and vaiMv In the
'Bough niiyme;, of a Padre." by "Wood
bine Willie" tti A. Studder-Kennedy.
M c. c F.) Theie Is not a preten
tious poem In the collection, but the
unpolished, slangy peei h nf Tommy in
the ttenches H teprndllced with a de
gie nf naturalness and a lark of af
fectation that nevtl stlains Him reader's
sens.' nf leallly. Kssentially dlffeient
in spirit are the fragment. "War." and
tin- optimistic. "The Spirit." hut they
aie linked bv the pervasive not.- of real
hnmanlt.v which dominates the bonk
Tvplcal magazine verse of fair merit
comprise -To Arms:' by Laura L.
'liich.iuls Frequently they Just avoid
degeneiatlng inln doggerel, but they
' have the light ling
Whjle not piimaiil.v a vnlnme nf war
eise. Marietta M. Andrews's "Songs of
a Mother" (niitalns half a dozen or
innre veises inspired direct ! bv the war
Conventional in form, anil familiar in
sentiment, the verges are, nevertheless.
(d'sllmilj above the average of their
Mirt The aie imbued with the spirit of
whimsy and tenderness that gives them
sine popular appeal, and the spirit of
tenderness Is h.ippil.v seldom maireil by
niawkishness. In their entltety the
verses tun the gamut of a mothers
emotions, anil the varying monds are
quite Infectious-,
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77it Devil lo Pay
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ground of a scene at the scaffold,
wheieon a murderer has paid the su
preme penalty, Frances Nimmo Greene
has woven a story nf an unusual sort
The bank teller had been tried, con
victed and sentenced, and the mandate
nf the law had been fullllled vvith due
solemnity. Another trial was impend
ing, that of the president of the bank,
one of the most prominent citizens of
the town, who had been indicted as
an accessory, but who, nevertheless, en
Jojed the lespect of all his fellow
citizens These latter tegardrd the
great man as the victim of the jeulnus
and malevolence of the dtstilct attot
ney This uncharitableness was as
cribed by the banker's fi lends tn the
fact that the lawyer had been "cut out"
in his love-making by the financier
A joung fellow Just out of college,
brother to the young woman who had
thiown over the lawjer for the banker,
thinks himself a horn detective, and
starts nut to vindicate his prospective
brother-in-law He goes lo live with
the latter In the capacity of private sec
letary. wheie. his doting sister per
suades hun, he will be able to clinch the
proofs of her fiance's Innocence. Oddl.v
enough, the attorney, for vvhoin the hov
entertains a lively personal regard,
despite the fact that In the peiformance
of bis official duty he Ih preparing the
case against the banker, approves the
youth's decision It will give him an
nppoiiunlt.v to find out just what an Im
peccable individual the latter is. argues
the shrewd prosecutor.
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the case mildly. Mysterious telephone
messages are received in the dead of
night, in which the voice of the speaker
at the other end nf the wire has an odd
familiarity that gives the youth a cold
shiver and whets the curiosity of the
reader nf Miss Greene's novel. And the
denouement vindicates the prosecutor's
acumen, even if It does leave one in a
puzzle as tn just what induced the au
thor to give her story the bizarre title
of "The Devil to Pay."
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