THE LAST SHOT
By FREDERICK PALMER
Copyright, 1914. by Charle» Sorlbn*r*» Sana.
[Continued.]
impuit, ... ~v through tl
fc««traint that seemed to characterir
Hi* Lanstron of thirty-five. The La:
*n>n of twenty-five, who had ine
oartaatropho because he was "wool
lathering," asserted himself. He pu
fcto hand on Stransky's shoulder. I
"••a a strong though slim hand tha'
looked as If It had been trained to di
the work of two hands In the process
of Its owner's own transformation
Thus the old sergeant had seen a gen
flral remonstrate with a brave veterai.
[who had been guilty of bad conduct In
Africa. The old colonel gasped at such
• subversion of the dignity of rank.
He saw the army going to the devil.
Bnt young Dellarme, watching with
,«Mer curiosity, waa sensible of no
Aunlliarity In the act. It all depended
on how such a thing was done, he was
thinking.
"We all have minutes when we are
Inore or less anarchists," said Lan
•tron In the human appeal of one man
to another. "But we don't want to be
{fudged by one* of those minutes. I got
ft hand mashed up for a mistatce that
took only a second. Think this over
tonight before you act. Then, if you
•re of the same opinion, go to the col
onel and tell him so. Come, why not?"
"All right, sir, you're eo decent
febout It!" grumbled Stransky, taking
his place in the ranks.
Hep-hep-hep! The regiment started
oil Its way, with Grandfather Fraglni
keeping at his grandson's side.
"Makes me feel young again, but it's
<larned solemn beside the Hussars,
■with their horses' bite a-jingling. Times
have certainly changed—officers'
hands In their pockets, saying 'lf you
don't mind' to a man that's insulted
the flag! Kicking ain't good enough
tor that traitor! Ought to hang him—
yes, sir, hang and draw him!"
Lanstron watched the marching col
umn for a time.
"Hep-hep-hep! It's the brown of the
Infantry that counts in the end," he
mnsed. "I liked that wall-eyed giant.
He's all man!"
Then his livening glance swept the
heavens inquiringly. A 3peck In the
blue, far away in the realms of atmos
pheric infinity, kept growing in size
until It took the form of the wings
with which man flies. The plane vol
planed down with steady swiftness,
till its racing shadow lay large over
the landscape for a few seconds before
It rose again with beautiful ease and
precision.
"Bully for you, Btzell" Lanstron
Chought, as he started back to the
aeroplane station. "You belong in the
oorps. We shall not let you return to
your regiment for a while. You've a
000 l head and you'd charge a church
tower if that were the orders."
CHAPTER V.
A Sunday Morning Call.
As a boy, Arthur Lanstron had per
sisted in being an exception to the in
fluences of both heredity and environ
ment. Though his father and both
grandfathers were officers who be
lieved theirs to be the true gentle
man's profession, he had preferred
any kind of mechanical toy to arrang
ing the most gayly painted tin sol
diers In formation on the nursery
floor; and he would rather read about
the wonders of natural history and
electricity than the campaigns of Na
poleon and Frederick the Great and
my Lord Nelson. Left to his own
choice, he would miss the parade of '
the garrison for Inspection by an ex-1
cellency in order to ask questions of I
a man wiping the oil off his hands with '
cotton-waste, who was far more enter
taining to him than the most spick-and
span ramrod of a sergeant.
Upon being told one day that he was
to go to the military school the follow
ing autumn, he broke out In open re
bellion.
"I dont want to go to the army!" he
said.
"Why?" asked his father, thinking
that when the boy had to give his rea
sons he would soon be argued out of
the heresy.
"It's drilling a few hours a day, then i
nothing to do," Arthur replied. "All |
your work waits on war and you don't j
know that there will ever be any war. !
It waits on something nobody wants 1
to happen. Now, if you manufacture
something, why, you see wool come
out cloth, steel come out an automo- |
bile. If you build a bridge you see it
rising little by little. You're getting j
your results every day; you see your ;
mistakes and your successes. You're
making something, creating some
thing; there's something going on all
the while that isn't guesswork. I
think that's what I want to say. You
wont order me to be a soldier, will
yon ?"
The father, loath to do this, called In
the assistance of an able pleader then,
Eugene Partow, lately become chief of
BtafT of the Browns, who was an old
friend of the Lanstron family. Partow
turned the balance on the side of filial
affection. He kept watch of the boy,
but without favoring him with influ
ence. Young Lanstron, who wanted to
■M results, had to earn them. He real
ised In practice the truth of Partow's
saying that there was nothing he had
ever learned but what could be of serv
ice to him as an officer.
"Finding enough work to do?" Par
tow would ask with a chuckle when
they met in these days; for he had
made Lanstron both chief of Intelli
gence and chief aerostatic officer.
Young Colonel Lanstron's was the duty
of gaining the secrets of the Gray
staff and keeping those of the Brown
and organising up-to-the-moment effi
ciency in the new forces of the air.
He had remarked truly enough that
the Injury to his left hand served as
a better reminder against th« folly of
Wool-gathering than a string, even a
FRIDAY EVENING HXRRISBURG TELEGRAPH SEPTEMBER 4, 1914.
'lar(r« red strins, v.u urcund his fin
der. Thanks to skillful surgery, the
ingers, incapable of epreadiag much,
.vere yet serviceable and had a firm
p srlp of the wheel as he rose from the
,! aeroplane station on the Sunday morn
i ing after Marta's return home for a
I flight to La Tlr.
He knew the pattern weaving under
| ( his feet as one knows that of his own
ii garden from an overlooking window.
q. Every detail of the staff map, ravinea,
ii roads, buildings, battery positions, was
r, stitched together in the flowing reality
n of actual vieion. No white posts were
h necessary to tell him where the
i. boundary between the two nations lay.
1. The line waa drawn In his brain.
h Now that Lanstron was the organ
-0 izer of the avlaUon corps his own
d flights were rare. Mostly they were
e [mad# to La Tlr. His visits to Marta
were tils holidays. All the time that
e she was absent on her journey around
i- the world they had corresponded. Her
n lettera, so revealing of herself and her
e peculiar angles of observation, formed
it b bundle sacredly preserved. Har
t mother's joking reference about her
r girlish resolution not to marry a sol
! dler often recurred to him. There, ha
sometimes thought, was the real ob-
II stacle to his great desire.
t When he alighted from the plane he
5 thrust his left hand into his blouse
pocket. He always carried It there,
1 aa If It were literally sewn In place.
1 In moments of emotion the scarreA
nerves would twitch as the telltale of
hie sensitiveness; and this was some'
thing he would conceal from others no
matter how conscious he was of It him
self. He found the Galland veranda
deserted. In response to his ring a
maid came to the open door. Her
face Was sad, with a beauty that' had
prematurely faded. But it lighted
pleasurably In recognition. Her hair
was thick and tawny, lying low over
the brow; her eyes were a softly
luminous brown and her full llpe sensi
tive and yielding. Lanstron, an lntl- !
mate of the Oalland household, knew
her atory well and the part that Marta
had played In It.
Some four years previously, when a
baby was in prospect for Minna, who
wore no wedding ring, Mrs. Oalland
had been Inclined to send the maid to
an institution, "where they will take
Cood care of her, my dear. That's
what such Institutions are for. It la
t qnlte scandalous for her and for na—
I never happened In our family beforel"
Marta arched her eyebrows.
"We don't know!" she exclaimed
aoftly.
"How can you think such a thing,
let alone saying It—you, a Galland 1"
her mother gasped In Indignation.
"That Is, If we go far back," aald
Marta. "At all events, we have no
precedent, so let's establish one by
keeping her."
"But for her own sake! She will
have to live with her shame!" Mrs.
Oalland objected. "Let her begin i
afreeh In the city. We shall give her !
a good recommendation, for she is |
really an excellent servant Yes, she ;
will readily find a place among i
strangers."
"Still, she doesn't want to go, and It '
would be cruel to send her away."
"Cruel! Why, Marta, do you think ;
I would be cruel? Oh, very well, then ;
we will let her stay!"
• *••••• |
"Both are away at church. Mrs. Oal
land ought to be here any minute, but
Miss Galland will be later because of
her children's class," said Minna. "Will i
I you wait on the veranda?"
j He was saying that he would stroll j
I In the garden when childish footsteps
were heaj;d in the hall, and after a j
curly head had nestled against the j
mother's skirts Its owner, reminded of j
the Importance of manners In the i
world where the stork had left her,
made a curtesy. Lanstron shook a
small hand which must have lately j
been on Intimate terms with sugar or i
jam.
"How do you do, flying soldier man?" I
chirruped Clarissa Eileen. It waa evi
dent that she held Lanstron In high
| favor.
"Let me hear you say your name,"
| aald Lanstron.
| Clarissa Eileen waa triumphant. She
I had been waiting for days with the i
I revelation when he should make that I
1 old request. Now she enunciated it J
: with every vowel and consonant cor j
; rectly and primly uttered; Indeed, she
repeated It four or five times In proof
of complete mastery.
"A pretty name. I've often wondered
how you came to give It to her," aald j
Lanstron to Minna.
"You do like it!" exclaimed Minna!
with girlish eagerness. "I gave her
the m . be;» tiful name I could think
of because"— she laid her hand caress
lngly on the child's head and a ma- !
I donna-like radiance stole into her faca
—"because she might at least have a
beautiful name when"—the dull blaza
of a recollection now burning in her 1
eyes—"when there wasn't much pros- i
pect of many beautiful things coming
Into her life; though I know, of course, j
that the world thinks she ought to be 1
called Maggie."
• •••••• I
Procee. !ng leisurely along the main (
! path of the first terrace, Lanstron fol
lowed It past the rear of the house to ' |
the old tower. Long ago the moat that
surrounded the castle had been filled I
In. The green of rows of grape vines
! lay agaii it the background of a mat
of ivy on the ancient stone walls, which /
had been cut away from the loopholes
aet with window glass. The door was |
open, showing a room that had been
clased In by _ ceiling of boards from
the walls to the circular stairway that ,
ran aloft from the dungeons. On the
floor of flags were cheap rugs. A num- |
ber of seed and nursery catalogues
were piled on a round table covered I
.with a brown cloth.
„ IT« be Continued.l [ t
The Kaufman's Stores Want Their Patrons to Know
That there will be no increase in prices. We have prepared as never before by buying our merchandise early and buying them at the usual
low prices which our ready cash—as always—enables us to do.
We are now ready with immense stocks of fall merchandise in every department and the early buyer will be the wise one, as well you
know that all the good forethought a merchant may have, he cannot guarantee for the future and we have every reas<?n to believe that prices will
go sky-high before many weeks; so take heed and buy early—Buy at Kaufman's where the famous Underselling Prices prevail."
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i| Fall St U lesHave Sta $ e I Advance Showing of
!; I / -Zz, £ V; ( A Here is a different store from that of last week, when nearly || O
;i I everything summery got its passports. This week begins a!> T
j! 1 1 new business season in the KAUFMAN'S STORES. !» pA j 1
I M A Mfeses : $24.75 INew r all
jti\L \\ Paris-copied Fall Suits. <j 1\ /I'll*
1 Material of Broadcloths, Gabardines, Foplins and Im- il \/I 1 I 11T1 7
h ■ ported Serges, in Redingote, Basque and Tailored Styles, j; IV A 111 JUL V
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ij LH I jj r f i;; ;m Wistaria - An actual $35.00 suit; specially priced now, $24.75 jj We are now showing all the new shapes and
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% 111 111 Mil vpjy Fall Suits jj early autumn. The new velvet and plush hats
if J fßtJlmr Vi w) Materials of Novelty Cheviots, Crepes and Men's Wear jl are here in various shapes and styles at the usual
fn WiSftr liW \ N I Ser g e s. stunning styles and hand-tailored. Leading shades, «! , T . ...
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!j brown. An actual S2O suit, specially priced now $15.00 il , ,
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Early Fall Coats The New Fall Dresses j .
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i P a ' tS 3nd '° nR tunits - A big variety of Silk Poplin, Silk Messaline. All- ii All lonpr Russian tun «c styles. In
;An Rarl V Fall Fir* W ° ol mens w . ear serge and cre P e materials! Gor- ii daint y flowered and striped crepes,
o *1 i y/I geous styles, including the favorite new Basque j! tissues, voiles and other desirable
Special, at 4 ICj.'-tO. A Ijj wash materials, in dark a n d light
i it 1 • Kussian tunic styles, in 3,11 tlie newer i• ~ . ■ 1
1 ? JlTn c SergC '» ,n b, . ackand navy blue; actual black and navy blue, Russia green and chocolate ! i patterns and trimmed with those
! value $3.50. Specially priced now $2.45 brown. g chocolate ~ dainty touches which appeal to every I
| ther skirts from $1.95 to $9.50 Other silk and cloth dresses at $5 up to $25.00. ji wom an and miss. All sizes for |g||B i
women and misses. 1111111 | j
BOYS To L 1 Girls' New Dresses j
OCnCDi I For School [K3HI !
I ' I Rest assured, mothers, that you will
a&fc |Make Your Purchase at Kaufman's J |
and You Will Save MONEY I ; sweetest - DRESSES that wi " & ive i
long satisfactory service and be pretty {
$6& $6.50 Extra Pants Suits $3 90 KNICKERBOCKER s(}c MUCT'BE™ ™A N iOB <
FOR YOUR BOY PANTS .... STORES c.IN SFLL {
v pß,cEs ,, s iTili !
readv for you. Sizes 6to 17 years knickers are double stitched. your K irls school dresses here to-mor- " I f I £ I
xt rji t i , c , , . _ seams all taped. You could row. w
Norfolk made of tweeds and cassimeres. Two pairs not h.iv th*™ «i nn j„ v ' - 'I {
of peg-top trousers. \ou could not buy as good for $6.50 in anv other store 6 to 17 t
any other store in town. vpara 1 "\ \
Girls' Washable SCHOOL DRESSES, JQ I
Boys' School ( J Qft Boys' At BOYS' SCHOOL Ap 75c Value, Choice For 4"C
C«;^2pair»of^/B ,yU Sm'fc a * 3 -50 1 BLOUSE WAISTS, Up Made of and gmgham, fast colors, all the newest 1
jUItS Knickers Value B 50c MATERIAL styles, high neck and long sleeves. Sizes 6to 12 years. '
A $7.50 Value 6to 10 IN THESE . . . v 1
Pants lined. Belt to match - - - - Good Blouses, made with Girls' Washable School Girls' Washab'e School Dreuol
watch fob, coats the newest Boys Corduroy Nor- <trfc CQ Vain#, in Si oo„ " , ' uresiei,
Norfolk models. 6to 18 folk Suits, a $5.50 jl—— open cu ff- s > collar. sto Over 100 patterns to choose aue *° $2.50, Choice $1.45
years. Value, Btol6 . . y ears from. Dresses made of ging- Made of all the fewest ma- 1
ham and galatca cloth. All the terial, in all the newest styles. (
We Have Found 125 MEN'S SUITS, We Sell More l nwn ,
Plain and Mixed, $lO, sl2 $C 00 Pants Than Any GIRLS' WASH DRESSES, $3.50 d»o ir 1
&sls Qualities we cansellfor 2 Stores in Town «U: very m „ae,s T«. 6 !
We have found them—because we set out to look for suits Why? Because we areaa- t0 14 "
to sell to our customers at a much lower price than they wa / s 011 the lookout for bar-
could buy at any other store. ' <lr i 1°!" customers,
REMEMBER THlS—Every suit a man buys -from us about % you'll° pay fn GIRLS SERGE DRESSES, $3.50 djO AT
carries our guarantee—even if he only pays $5.00 for it. other stores. Value Fof • • • • « •
FOR TO-MORROW Made of wool serges, in the newest models. Sizes Bto 14. 1
500 pairs of Men's Durable '
MEN'S FALL SUITS at $7 50 pockets. M Sofd W else- Pr ° I f GIRLS' SERGE DRESSES,! ( SPFPIAI 1
__ a —— where at $2, for wl J5 nn Value Choice Fi»P $1 QS O* ,
These Suits are all woo) serges *• 750 Pairs of I lade ofl all P ure wool A handsome assortment of
£• L *». J * I . " f i Men's Pants . *|) JL iOU serges, in all colors, every oneffirl ir s and Street J
line CnCVlOts snd cassirneres. Lots or tnem Handsome worsteds, made a new Fall model. Sizes 6to fosses. . lzes 6to 14 ,for %
hand tailored. Values in this lot to $ 16.50. <£» Se C " d . . po . ck . I $5.90 to $15.00 J (
Stoce °P enß at 8:30 A - Closes at 9P. M., Saturday. |
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