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Show I ffir of KHtJ""-" Lffenrg diiims Jori nmi I r ' tThe woman Mack-remember ? Kingston says her body w 1 found in the lake this morning." . -mP fiJr ' j&lr $k$n&mHSi& ashamed of H I i5!T, t&d&sSf J&j'"" ,';".!iv your part in this great war and in , ,iltfSllHnMu ' com- Hl ISdfipP .rffj'""' ing." His long beard was blowing (rem ast Sunday) MtRAPTER XXV. By Hl$Ki( of rf Goa'.' w Brn v 'ore had Clarkson . trills fate so bitirrly as BMtd-dthat first week in July ftKi he Fas a c ivil:. m. b Hnt hid hid no br.nd in the I'Jbi He shook hif fist in frsilj' smiling countenanc e Bc-J af'cr the captur. .td, if vou don t c 1 1 1 nery fifteen seconds and Mjj4jBhii' many of tln.ni am wBorr minute, I'll oblilcr-""atirel; oblilcr-""atirel; Why. I in ijWfte.'-anrJ here I am out lia'tyou a soldier. Clark," -XacM lac;;, "l!k ir. In-l?olcon In-l?olcon in barbed wire yfertlc baudacrr s ' Tlio -2BHoa't 'jindaze your coun- is;. .... d ' lurk-on "I TP61 Ton for breakfast , (eP k'.on. Remember, ;-.r!). a f fifteen second!" "JrBW E'.5flon in Sv, t yiaihlgh state of delight. aP gla?t the s pic? was t-o -ff would ' 1 p i i i PtW frrrn " the end of the war. and gfoadof thinking hex on 1 mfiL Rumnr, uhlch did a Jfeinj'f In Bern. . cm I woau with saying that ftn-n--. n. -'! i klfd day alter the rep. teekln Clarkson In ' J'111 off'Cc v;kl the WBeranlan v.:, i , U 1 'ng .11.1!, toatferrcd t ;; a--,hlIll jjjjjj.10 f 1 TJJin;tl in- in.. Pas soul t),-., d;,Iur "" i U"rc. but Pau. , WrJ In hi? syrallon r ht "id, -,f v. , h to hr-ar f,, ; : EGcnev'1 """ Ku( at g1',, , pKiejp1"'1 f 'kson. :iH The 'woman iu black' remember? Kingston says her body was found in the lako this morning "Willie the Rat!" Clarkson ground out with au oath. "Never mind. Ray, I won't tell him unless he can stand it. Who's pressing the case with the authorities the colonel?" f "Oh, Michaud, of course," laughed Ray. "It's his case, his frontiers, his country, his triumph, his everything every-thing 'enfin, e'est la victoiro!' That's what he keeps gabbling." "Let him have it," Clarkson answered an-swered soberly. "That's bound to be our fate, Ray. You'll find when the war is over that all we came in for was the joy-ride. That's what all those people will tell you. Never mind, boh. I'm oft to Geneva. Want to t ome along?" "Can't. I'm a soldier," grinned the boy maliciously. In the French hospital at Geneva to which Anthony was taken the night of the Fourth, he lav in a sort of crepuscular light of dim, blunted consciousness between Intervals of violent fever. The bullet had shattered shat-tered none of the bones in his ihoulder, though it had grazed some; but It had made an ugly wound, nevertheless, tearing the muscles and flesh cruelly. The healing, the surgeon said, would require re-quire time, and "eufln" with a shrug "there aro many worse wounds on the western front." Colonel Cole was furious at this seeming callousuess of the French surgeon and Incontinently telephoned tele-phoned for an American Red Cross doctor from Home. IIo was somewhat some-what appeased when old Dr. Tyler i from Springfield, .Massachusetts) repeated almost verbatim the pronouncement pro-nouncement of the Frenchman. "But he'll be all right pull through won't ' he?" gruffly demanded de-manded the colonel. "Why not'" mildly answered Dr. Tyler. "He's young." "These crazy doctors. " thoupht the colonel. "Why can't they answer an-swer yes or no?" When Colon-1 CMe, in dejection, left the hospital, the French surgeon sur-geon came back to his patient, drov a the nurse from the room, and with a surprising show of kindness for one who had spoken so coolly, almost harshly, in the presence of others, murmured In Anthony's ear .-o that the black beard brushed his cheek: "Mon ami you will get well You can get well quickly. But put your will into it. Say to yourself, 1 shall get well quickly. Make It a game un Jeu end see how quickly you can do It." Few men can b? lender before an audience. There was no need to extract the bullet, for It had been found in his underclothes. under-clothes. Weak, with harrowing pain but with an otherwise lucid mind, Anthony An-thony awoke on the fourth day staring star-ing about him and wondering at the ways of destiny. From an almost provincial nation America had suddenly sud-denly spread over the globe. Americans Amer-icans like himself were lying ill or wounded everywhere. What was the object of it all? Nothing more concre te than an idea. They would not countenance a war for trade, for land, for empire they give colonies col-onies away like so many old clothes but for an idea tliey ai m and overflow over-flow tho earth. The old Roman Km-pire Km-pire would have laughed at them for dreaming idealists his hard-headed, hard-headed, money-making, practical Imericaiis! He found himself longing und earning for home There was no one there waiting for him, none who loved him, or with the exception excep-tion of old Jim Howard who hoped for his return. Grace Thomas but be had wrlten Joe Sliclburn to see to her needs himself or through tho agency of a lawyer no, there was no one. but the toil Itself was waiting and calling to him like voice He did not tell himself It was sacred soil it was more than coldly sacred Ah! how much more! It was precious that was it precious! Strange how even the loneliest of us cannot move without pulling on the dear fetters that bind uh to home! Deep roots seemed to (C) IMla International draw him, to hold him In a blessed bondage which he had hardly realized re-alized before. He felt like a cast- away, ready to fight or die for a hope of home. To feel tho Joy, to breathe tho peace of home again! Those dear simple people of his! He saw them before him in the mass, with the perspective of great dhtance so bright they seemed, eddying about, so bright and so clamorous and so plain! So loud against Injustice, against the underhand, the shameful, shame-ful, the meanness of life! What a contrast to the o"d, outworn, intriguing in-triguing Europe which was like a parcel of scofding. plotting. Intriguing Intrigu-ing old crones when the day of their vigor and attraction is gone! Tears of weakness, of lassitude, of long Ing sprang into his eyes and flowed gently down to tho pillow Like the heart of a lonely child, his heart kept pulling and stretching toward his image of home. ' Dr. Clovis, the brink French surgeon sur-geon came humming into the room with a "bonjour, mon umi." and examined ex-amined tho chart He then looked at the patient and noted the damp spots on the pillow. "Of what have you been thlnklo my friend?" he demanded with an odd. tolerant crinkling of the crow's feet about his spectacled eyes. "Of home." answered Anthony. "Of home." ho repeated. "Ah, then it will march! Then it will niar.h, my son Get well!" An-i An-i tinny Bald nothing. "There is a friend of yours, praying pray-ing to see you. Shall we give him tejl minutes yes? He is most insistent." in-sistent." "What is his name?" "His name what do I know? These English and American names' Imagine to yourself the name Tlpperalrle! We'll allow him ten minutes." A minute later Clarksou's great bulk filled tho doorway. ttur Smtcr. Inc. Grri t With a subdued holaterousness Olarkson greeted him, Jested with him affectionately and praised hlra in an assumed tone of grumbling. "The old colonel." he announced, "has hot-footed It down to Chau-mont Chau-mont in the Cadillac to make a full report at G. II. Q. of your great deeds." "That's good," Anthony responded respond-ed indifferently, "but the report is the least of my worries." "I Mko that," growled Clarkson. "It certainly means promotion." "What of it, Clark? I'm not a West Pointer. What does promotion promo-tion matter to me with boy majors and colonels filling the world? I want to go home that's what I want." "But you will, son, you will. We'll all go home. Wait till we lick the Hun." Ho then gave Anthony his version of the news of the nine tho devil's baseball team, as he called them. Then abruptly, unable to contain himself, he asked Anthony: "You weren't sweet on that dame in black, were yon?" "You ought to know." he murmured. mur-mured. "I wouldn't have believed her on her oath but she did hand us a true tip. There is that to her credit. She wants to got back to the U. S. W e'll have to make good and help her." "Well, son, I lee I' won't upset you if I tell you her body was found in tho Lako of Geneva this morning." "Done by Willlo the Rat!" murmured mur-mured Anthony "That's exactly what I said." "Yes, Clark, she's paid tho price. She did us one good turn before she left some good In everybody." He paused. "Her accounts with I'm sorry she Is gone but her account is straight" Clarkson made no attempt to UrlUlD BUhti a rT4. understood. The developments of the succeeding succeed-ing four weeks which Anthony had spent In the hospital are too familiar famil-iar and too pregnant with vast significance sig-nificance for a recapitulation even to be attempted here. One may safely say that the face and tho dls-tlny dls-tlny of Europe and the world were changed during this brief period. Tho Germans made their despairing thrust across the Marne on July the fifteenth, and that proved to be their last. They were hurled back on the eighteenth, and from that day on the French, tho Americans and the British, in the titanic chess game that Foch was playing, kept moving and driving and checking toward the final victory. On August sixth, when Anthony was leaving the hospital and Colonel Cole came down in his car to take him to Berne, he presented him' with an official envelope from G H. Q. brought by the long courier tho day before, and Anthony discovered that he was a captain and that the commander-in-chief bogged him "to n'-cept his thanks." "Blinded the Huns by that little game you pulled oft' on those spies." muttered the colonel gruffly, with, 6parkling eyes "Minded them, that's, what we did. Their whole system's gone to smash. They're too busy running now to build up another." Anthony, still weak from his wound and long confinement, shook ls head deprecatlngly. "I wish I could think so, sir. It's our boys in the line and streaming in by the thousands that are doing the trick more likely." "It's many things. West, my boy. many things. When you're older you Will know on how many seemingly minor things great events depend. Blinded them," he persisted, "that's what you did." It was like his generosity gen-erosity to fasten all the credit on him. Anthony told him roundly then and there. "Why pick on me." he smiled wearily. "What's the matter with yourself, with Bay, with Clarkson all tho rest?" "You're being insubordinate." snapped the colonel In a high state of glee. "I've got a table at the Beau Rlcage." Anthony's arm was still in a scarf and his legs were quaking under him as, arms in arm with his chief, he walked down the steps of the hospital. Old Dr. Clovis declined an invitation to lunch, but he accompanied ac-companied them to the car. "Adieu, mon Ills," ho said, patting Anthony's sound shoulder. "Adieu! the lake, and at the last moment he whipped out a prettily bound copy of Pascal's Pensees, threw it on Anthony's knees, slammed to the door of the limousine and with his short logs ran up the steps. At the Beau Rlvage Michaud was lunching with a Polish nobleman who by hook and by crook had con-t con-t rived to leave Germany. Michaud came over and made much of An-thony, An-thony, for he, Michaud himself, had received promotion because of An-thony's An-thony's exploit. Michaud was a born whisperer He seemingly had no middle register When he did not shout he whispered. "I have the grandest of news," he whispered hoarsely o Colonel Cole and Anthony "That monsieur, the Comto Vladek, a monsieur polo- -nais, comes direct from l'AUcmagne enfin he conversed with (enoral Hoffmann but three days ago you know Hoffmann of Brest-Litovsk infamy And Hoffmann, enfin, told him that they, the Boches, were 1 flni shattered done! They must sue for an armistice, for peace It is Bulgaria that w ill drop any minut now any minute then the Haps-burgs, Haps-burgs, and enfin l'Allemagne! " The colonel thanked him warmly and had the news confirmed from Vladek's own lips It is notable, however, such was the universal distrust of the enemy, that when Colonel Cole sent his news to Head-quarters Head-quarters and the Legation cabled it in code to Washington, neither I the one nor the other received so much as an acknowledgment of the message. America was preparing to fight at least another year, and mere intelligence of probable capit- ulatlon was unsavory and dlsre- Btfrde'd. Anthony, however, in common with most people in Uiat little coun-try coun-try that was like a telephone ex-change ex-change switchboard, was convinced that the end of the dreadful sham- H hies across Europe was speedily coming nearer The weeks of ceaseless attack in due season brought their Infallible results In September Bulgaria fell: in October Austria collapsed, and then It was Germany's turn More and more Anthony longed and yearned for home. His light duties, owing to his useless arm, made him feel like an idler In the land. His promotion had brought him no elation whatsoever. What-ever What-ever work he had done here was at an end. Ho hungered for home with tho pangs of a starving man avid of food. The same life for him began over again, the same hostile glances to and from the Continued on Ncjct rage H IR gBH BMa HO liSGBHBflBlaasmS Brail BKI B!HVjNKHETCraK$w WUmEfQBl&Ktji I A HirottiW Mtal Bcmdixce mericaii lM iH 9 Contiinrl frOHl Prrrilinrj J'nnf Teutons (though Von Rathonau, hn I I mm thought, was stalking a shade less 1 arrogantly), the same hideous habit PJJ ;j df glancing over one's shoulder be- PBJ I (ore speaking the most Innocuous ;J ot words It was revolting. He iH n thirsted for work, (or home, for an PBJ J honest ntraosphere. When Swiss jktm 1 IB army officers who had been fawn- PBH.l ing on the Germans came with their PJH j congratulations on Allied lUCOesgSSi 1 alld in tuvn fawned on him and his PJJJ 1 colleagues, hi revulsion know no Ij bounds Ills nerves, still tender 'from the sJiock nf his wound, n i burned as with n contoiming fire, j:. Ho realized v. list many an Ameri- iH'1 can has realized since that we are PJJJ soldiers only when there Is work to PJH'l he done in a good cause. Then no PJJJ i undertaking Is too stupendous, no PJJJ J obstacle insuperable But when PJJJ'fl the work is dnne wo rue ;'onr hands at the soldiering Pffj j Oddly enough Ills very success PJJJ j and the praise he was receiving PJJJ brought to Anthony an accession of PJJJ J bitter self-reproaeh for wasted PJJJ i years and lost opportunities He iH. 1 j had lost Adela. the one human bo- iH 1 1 Ing who could lift him to a higher piPM level of life, and at the end nf PfM J ' nearly thirty years of existence ho PJJl 1 j told himself, lie amounted to notlt- iH j Ing. The continued pain ami stiff PJJJ I ness of his shoulder was an exacer- PJJl bating disability against which ho iH 1 ' hared like a restlre horge When PBI i.jji the exchange of notes began y v. iH 1 j of the Swis Foreign Office be- PJJl i I tween the (iermans and President PBH 1 j Wilson, he hluntlv asked Colonel PJJl a Cole whether he could demand his PJJJ a , discharge when the armistice WM iLH J It was early in Novemher The ibH 1 damn raw air of Berne was aggra- piPj I rating the gain In his wounded iLH 3 shoulder, tnd there was literally PJJH nothing In do but in read the news- PJJJJ 1 paper and wait for extra bulletins PJH 1 of the Itund and other Bf : nese ifl fl new- sheets f(r liie next develop- PJJJJ I zuent in the German peace manoeu- Bfl j Tree. He had crown to hate tho I I dull, half-medieval little city even more than the others of Iti enforced en-forced inhabitants hated it. "You do need a change that's sure." Colonel Cole agreed "Yon II j take some time genius over this, j But look here, my 007, I don't liko aaaaaaaa to lose you. The Huns ought to be PJJH I wiped out but they will get their PJJH armistice I am sure of it princi- PJJH pally because our Allies are just as PJJH weary of lighting as the Hun?. We PJJH could go on for quite a space yet PJJH but the pre nob and tho British aro I! "Tell you what 111 do. VM I II five you a letter to G. H. Q. recommending rec-ommending jrour discharge. Von go there, by way of Paris- and that will give you I little change, any- aaaaaaaaj way. Tho may not Rive yen your PJJH discharge immediately but it will PJJJJ c a furlough and a chance iH 80 at last, on the tenth of No PJJJJ cmber, Anthonv j-aid r"rd hy to igjgV bis friends, to Kav and ( larkson J and Sidney and the others. Colonel iH Cole insisted upon motoring h3 iH down to Geneva, and as he looked PJJJl back through the rear window of iH the car at the stolid city that had fl tor so long (or lncredlbb eeoai of Pl time been bis home, he observed 1 that the city was beautiful PJJJJ "I have never seen Heme look so PJJJb well." he murmured guilelessly. PJJJJ "UTien you've got your back PJJJJ turned to it!" laughed the colonel. PJJJB ' Well, well, my boy. don't be too PJJJJJ bard on it brought you PJJJB and promotion." PJJJJJ Anthon made The PH colonel would have fell pained had PJJJB he known for how little both of PJJJB (hose assets counted with hlfk "4 111! that moment He armed in Han- the following h ' inomtug after tortured night nf H chill and discomfort in the neg- H lected war-time French train from H Hellegarde, and no sooner had he H washed the stains of travel from I htm In the Hotel St James e iiiiH d'Alhany and swallowed some cof- H lulj fo, ,na0 Bedlam broke forth in the H Hue de Rivoli belere him and on the H neighboring Place Concorde He H looked out of bis window iuto the H, etraste, and amid a mad tumult of H'' j sirens, whistles, horns and bells be H saw the crowd -urging, swaying H 1 and swirling hither and thither like B a mass nf ants on an ant heap. The 1 door l.-it open behind him H "They have signed'" cried the iiiiiij portly chambermaid, a plain woman H 1 9f some fifty Summers, with her H white cat1 awry. H' j "They have signed!" repeated the H . 1 let. a dark. gre llttl man ith 1 .1 s hlu? donlm apron. rtM-klng beside H A thrill, a tingling. Hks rj J shock of elfotrlcity shot up his 1 1 He tur.ied toward 'the pair vl lly d their dull faces were trans- IIIIBnl i tlgared. Illlllll 'h' Qonklr- 1 a grand Hll j. tbey cried in unleon. each 1 ! j. rrlpplnjt a hand, the little valet glv gw iJfi ! lnK kai1 t boulder a violent wrench. A spasm of pain parsed j danc across h. faee but tbey though , ? suddenly sur- I was emotion at their news, lie j j u j A M , . . . rounded him and kt&sed 4$ was dazed for a moment and mur- , . , - v N , .. . . , s, ,,Q him violently on the i : ( mured he knew not what. He J. .. 4ttm) JBr , 1 .... . y 1. 1 u checks and hps until B i loosed his right hand to which iho .5 , . - maid was clinging, brought forth a hc al, bul V- Uandtnl of money and gave .hem blinded by their , m each a flte-franc note, with a urgtnfr faces. habble of thanks they ducked and dF nodded and Bed from the room. - efat.' Br A moment later the concierge, in gflB da B blue gallooned fro ip n ' r hand, burst in wi' 1 a f.crfunciory .7' ' S .D J and .icu'n apprised him that ,r. 3Bf JF ' ' ft f "Fnfln. It i ended!" mumbled the emotional oncierge, and tears fell from his overflowing eye; upon An thony's hand The concierge also departed sniffling, enriched by five francs. "This won't do," muttered Anthony An-thony to hlinelf "Muf get into my uniform" his unifo-m l-. used in neutral Switzerland. And as he locked the door his own bom I seemed ho full and Bia tended thai he felt a pang of fright lot it should overflow like the concierge's. Once In his uniform he slung his left arm In the black scarf he had so long worn to prevent accidents In the crowd, and faied forth into the street. The Paris sun was shining, tho noise was deafening and the crowds Vere swirling wildly. He found himself caught as in powerful wavo of sheer, nameless joy. It was like the abstract essence of joy descended from somo secret mountain moun-tain cave, whence on1 niggard trickles had ever been allowed to escape before. It settled like a new incredible atmosphero over the sparkling city. Men, wonjen, children, chil-dren, old and young, soldier and civilians, American Red Cross girls, Trlauglo girls, nurse.- all 1 s were in a mad frenzy of happiness. They moved and came swaying and dancing on the pavements, In the street, In every nook of space, in I'll : l! 1 f i every doorway. In every blind alley. They danced and they hugged and they kls.-ed one another, they embraced em-braced tho officers and the soldiers mn embraced men and women women, as simply ar.d as Joyously as they embraced the opposite sex. And the tears of Joy were flowing like water. Some American army motor trucks came dashing down from the Champs Elysees to tho Place Concorde filled with soldiers and girls, dancing, singing and shouting as the uncurbed trucks swung dangerously from side to side, until it seemed that all those joy-maddened people would any in-atant in-atant be dashed in a mangled mass to the asphalt A troop of lilting and dancing girls suddenly surrounded sur-rounded him and kissed him violently vio-lently on the checks and Hps until he was all but blinded by theii surging surg-ing faces. They danced on nnd left him. and suddenly he noted that what he had feared , had happened. One of the lorries had lurched and Hdlled all of its occupants some twenty. soldiers and girls, who were now a writhing, squirming mass on the pavement. By an Inch, it seemed, the truck in the rear had sworved and passed the scrambling mass with yells of laughter. To Anthony's astonishment the fallen ones all picked themselves up. Joined hands and danced after their lorry clambered aboard and continued to dance. Pain passed them by. they were impervious to It Through the tumult c$li heard strains of the Marseillaise, end suddenly in tho midst of hifl laughter and panting under the vlo lent kissing of circles of girls who surrounded him. and released him only after each had had her em brace, he beheld a sight that startled star-tled and touched him like nothing else In this orgy of happiness. I'uurAdd men. "optuagenariaiMt all of them at the very least, were ttlffly zigzagging over the square, and In cracked rofesi were singing that "the day of glory was arrived." The hauntipg treble of children s olces Is not so moving as the singing sing-ing of old men There was something some-thing pitiful and great and Homeric .bout Anthony', fce4ft 1 I! ' I violent leap. His itarctjWl 1 1 10 bursting and h '.M-"BIr tears ana ow n e rs. He was startled by M French officer with tv. t... n airman suddenly isugflfl ' kl n hi.'. "'J I h- stood there ;auh" 1 .3 shopkeeper they ,f fme him friatinuJBl ,po htl to rr. a, htagB rhe joy and the CSggHl too Intense for tfrnaW needed rest. Bl II "M1 of -.o.en'l N 1 Ij from Pla'o to Knier hidgW MPfl ;,r"1 " I' bganf idV I 9 u n for this -.-X; 11 I'iouded JnyE A rouldn t it he .,. WKl to hKr "population" in Cie coaerdsa ied and -iin:,:d tni tl; ujgh (he vast ' i.nd tnajH 1 w ere jeriding ntsiKjf Cr through their feet t. V' to eyes,to iheb udgV earth was stirring. MrbgaLj i i 'iitTx.nr laHBp of t j is toeBs ' -BW'"': 'BBff " - i' ieS ' j glimpse of the fiMB1 : no man could IxBK and live And be vm'-dK&N once, geological f had lia-tered ttBtsaw l-.id wanted to diB " " lo- wanted to live dot Hjki n -II what the earth t could not eat, it U 1 bat diy. rj liberated spire he felt MaBLPM ( B ' gm'-t n again he vptlH his wiy peBjJ c ,,). 1, vlo gK door on the hgH the crowd should sweep '"tjSgl In. Once on the pivtoSkVita fc " tLr u feJBih 1 tgfcfc; : '.miiier ion tinr am lie c a me 1 eiieatedly ' ' HBv ! the In the tt tiSH f iiappiness- to face tt tzi tfr t up ortuiBMi undying energy in Is' 'faBp :ng shock of the w-j'encfcajtf lie c I 'R so full ele 'rlc ,BT : of happiness UUbHJ ing up and breakinj TB, taking place all orer the this was humanity at IB from time to tine is h lHP darn. 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