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` E SWALLOW
By MARY RAYMOND SHIIPii1 tN ANDREWS.
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IV. I things in North American forests. The
"Thea Boches are good killing,", he , steps came nearer. A star -shell away
had elucidated to his officer. And down the line Iighted the scene so that
finally: "It is well, m'sieur, the col-Hirondelle, motionless on the ground,
ones. One failed to understand that all keen eyes, saw two Germans cern-
the colonel prefers a live Boche to a i ing toward him. Instantly he had a
dead one. Me, I am otherwise, It scheme. In a subdued growl, yet dis-
appears a vermin to let live such ver- tinetly, .he threw over his shoulder an
min. Has the colonel, by chance, heard' order that eight men should go to the
these savages did in Bel-' right and eight to the left. Then, on
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home wounded, with a war -cross on
his breast, by now."
The colonel smiled and shook his
head. "It is that which I cannot do—
show you my Hirondelle. Not here,
and not in France, by maiheel% For
he ventured once too often and too
far, as the captain prophesied, and he
is dead. Goci rest the brave! Also
a Croix reg Guerre is - indeed his, but
to
glum? Yes? But then— Yet I will: his feet, he sent into the darkness a no Hirondelle is there to claim it.
bring to m'sieur, the colonel all there stern "Balt!" Instantly there was a The silence of a moment was a
be desired of German prisoners sputter_ arms thrown up, the inevit_ salute to the soul of a warrior passed
Is to
alive ---en vie; fat ones; en masse." i able "Namcrad! and Hirondelle gid
That night Hirondelle was sent out' ered the first German to pass him,
with four of his fellow Hurons to get,' then a second. Out of the darkness
if possible, a prisoner. Pretty soon emerged a third. Hirondelle waved
he was separated from the others; all him on, and with that there was a
but himself returning empty-handed fourth. And a fifth. Behold a sixth,
in a couple of hours. No Germans About then Hirondelle judged it wise
seemed to be abroad. But Hirondelle to give more orders to hi -s imaginary
did not return. squad of sixteen. But such a panic
"IIe risks too far," grumbled riffs had seized this German mob that little
captain. "Ile has been captured at acting was necessary. Dark figure
last. I always knew they would kill followed dark figure out of the darker
hits, one night." ! night --arms up. They whimpered as
But that was not the night. At one they came, and an a..d on they came
o'clock there was suddenly a sound of out of the shadows. Hirondelle stated
lamentation in the front trench of that he began to think the Crown
the French an that sector. The sol- Prince's army was Surrendering tie
diers who were sleeping crawled out flim. At last, when the procession
of their holes in the sidce of the trench stopped. he—and his mythical sixteen
walls, and crowded around the zigzag, —marched the entire covey, without
narrow way and rubbed their eyes and anyon
the from.
listened to the laughter of officers
es.
and soldiers on duty.- There was H:r The colonel, with this whining
ondelle, solemn as a church, yet with' crowd weeping about him, with Hir-
a dancing light in his eyes. There,' ondelle's erect figure confronting him,
around him, crowded as sheep to a his black eyes regarding the cowards
shepherd, twenty figures in German with scorn as he made his report—
uniform stood with hands up and wet the colonel simply could not ander-
tears running down pasty cheeks. And stand the situation. All these men!
they were fat, it was noticeable that "What are you—soldiers?" he flung
all of them were bulging of figure at the wretched group. And one ans-
beycnd even the German average. wend. "No, my oftices. We are not
They wailed "Kamerad! Gut Kanter• soldiers; we are the cooks." At that
"' l•r a chorus that was sic c i " h! Who, them
to the happy hunting -grounds. And
then I began an another story of Ra-
fael's adventures which something in
the colonel's tale suggested.
The colonel, his winning face all
a -smile, interrupted. "'Does one be-
lieve, then, in this Rafael of m'sieur
who caps me each time my tales of
my Huron Hirondelle? It'appears to
me that m'sieur has the brain of a
story -teller and hangs good stories on
a figure which he has built and named
so—Rafael. Me, I cannot believe there
exists this Rafael. I believe there is
only one such gallant d'Artagnan of
the Hurons, and it is—it 'was- -my
Hirondelle. Show me your Rafael,
then!" demanded the colonel.•
At that challenge the scheme which
had flashed into my mind an hour ago
gathered shape and power. "I will
show him to you, colonel," I took up
the challenge, "if you will allow me."
I turned to the others. "Isn't it pos-
sible for you all to call a truce and
come up to -morrow to my club to be
my guests for as long or as short- a
time as you will? I can't say how
much pleasure ,i.t would give me, and
I believe I could give you something
also—great fishing, shooting, a moose,
likely, or at least a caribou—and Ra-
fael. I promise Rafael. Its not un-
a . k n n^ there was a wall "Ach! `' likely, colonel, that he may have.
to the plucky poihl makeup. Hir-'. will the breakfast cook for my goner-� known the Hirondelle. The Hurons
ondelle, interrogated of many, kept al? He will •schrecklich angry lea for are few. Do come," I threw at them.
his lips shut till the first excitement his sausage and his sauerkraut. They took- it after their kind. The
quieted. Then: "I report to niy col- By degrees the colonel got the story. Englishman stared and murmured:
onel," he stated, and finally he and A number of cooks had combined to "Awfully kind, I'm sure, but quite
his twenty were led back through the protest against new regulations, and impossible." The Canadian, our next
winding trench, and the colonel was the general, to punish this astonndtng of kin, smiled, shaking his head like
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heinsubordination, hadhis arm of
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receive tr. Fitzhugh put
waked toa brotue
what had happened: Hirondelle had unarmed, petrified with terrcr, into brawn about me again till that glor-
wandered about, mostly on his stone- No Man's Land for an hour. They lead sous star gleamed almost on my own
ach through the darkness and peril of there encountered Hirondelle. 'bran- .shoulder, and patted me lovingly as
he said: "Old son, I'd give my eyes to
go, if 1 wasn't up to my ears in. job."
But the Frenchman's dark face
shone, and he lifted a finger that was
like a sentence. It spoke reflection
and eagerness and suspense. The rest
of us gazed at that finger as if it were,
about to address us. And the colonel
spoke. "I t'ink," brought out the col-
onel emphatically, "1 t'ink I damn go."
And I snatched the finger and the
hand of steel to which it grew, and
wrung both. This was a delightful
Frenchman. "Good!" I cried out.
'Glorious! I want you all but I'm
•
ing with guides while travelling in the
woods. One sits in a canoe between
two, but if there is a wind and the
boat is charge •their hands are full
with the small craft and its heavy
hats; when the landing is made and
the "messieurs" are debartittes',,
stantly the men are busy lifting- can-
oes an thet""tFl -heads and peeks on their
backs in bizarre, piled -up masses to
be carried from a leather tump-line,
a strap of two inches wide going
around the forehead. • The whole
length of the spine helps in the carry-
ing. My colonel. watched Delphise, a
husky specimen, road. With a grunt
he swung up a canvas U.S. mail bag
stuffed with butin, which includes
clothes and books and shoes and to-
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wiser guidance that knows and cares
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"And they probably hate it at first,
just as the other beggars do," said
I3et'h with her appreciative smile;
"but at any rate I begin to see the
sense of it, even if my beggar Self
doesn't."
bacco and cartridges and more, ith ---- `
a half -syllable Delphise indicated to ea siero's eaainienx cures Ilanarme,
Laurent a bag of potatoes weighing
eighty pounds, a box of tinned biscuit,
a wooden package of cans of con-
densed milk, a rod case, and a rain-
coat. These Laurent added to the
spine of Delphise.
"How many pounds?" I asked, as
the dark he -ad bent forward to equal-
ize the Strain.
Delphise shifted weigh an-
other grunt to gauge the pull. "About
a hundred and eighty pounds, m'sieur
—quite heavy—asset pesant." Off he
trotted uphill, head bent forward.
The colonel was entranced. "Hfady
fellows—the,making of fine soldiers,"
he commented;. tossing his cigarette
away' to stare.
(I'o be continued.)
No Man's Land, enjoying him- defile drew the attention of the colonel
self heartily; when suddenly to the fact that he had promised psis -
he missed his companions and oners, fat ones. "Will my colonel re -
realized that he had had no gard the shape of these pigs," sug-
sign of them for some time. That sug-
gested Hirondelle. "And alio that
did not trouble him. He explained to they are twenty in number. Enough
the colonel that he felt "more free." en masse for one man to take, is it
Also that if be pulled off a success not, my colonel?"
he would have "more glory." After The little dinner -party at the Fron-
two hours of this midnight amuse- tenac discussed this episode, "Almost
ment, in deadly danger every second, too good to be true, colonel," I oh-
Hirondelle heard steps. He froze to jeceed. "You're sure it is true? Bring
the earth, as he had learned from wild out your Hirondelle. He ought to be
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"Aunt Nan," said Beth in a tone of
perplexity. "I've been reading that
text in the New Testament: "If any
man will come after me, let him deny
himself, and take up his cross, and
follow me.' It seems so hard, some-
way, and stern. Why should you al-
ways be denying yourself? You've
been horn with your Self, and its
wants and wishes. Why should you
have to deny them?"
"That used to puzzle me, too,"
answered Aunt Nan, sympathetically.
"In fact, I never crier quite see until I
ran upon a little phrase in one of
Whittier's poems:
'Then duty leaves to love its task,
The beggar Self forgets to ask.'
The `beggar Self,' you notice. Not the
wicked, or even the foolish; but just
the beggar, always asking with out-
stretched' !land. Nowadays we are
taught to `deny' beggars on principle
—to refuse their small pleas for the
moment's relief, and instead hand over
their cases to some sane and wiser
agency.
"Why 1 - Not for our own comfort
'surefv. - I4any time it would be much
easier to open our purses, hand out a
few pennies, -and go on with a glow
of self-satisfaction over our charity..
But the truth is that the beggar on'
gliosis w n the street doesn't really know what
mightily pleased to get one, Colonel, he needs, and consequently is not ask -
you're a sport." ing to have the highest need satisfied.
"But, yes," agreed the colonel hap- ( The wiser hands in which we put hint
pily, "I am sport. Why not? I haf may give him just the little lift that
four clays to wait till my sheep sail. he asked for, but they are almost cer-
Why not kip --haw you :ay?—lcip in
my hand for shooting—go kill moose?
I may talk immensely of zat moose in
France—hein? Much more chic as to
kill Germans, n'est-ce-pas? Every-
body kill Germans."
At one o'clock next day the- out -of -
breath little train which had gasped
up mountains for five hours from l
Quebec uttered a relieved shriek and
stopped at a doll -house club station'
situated by itself in the wilderness.
Four or five men 1n worn but clean
clothes—they always start clean
waited on the platform, and there was
a rapid fire of "Bon jour, m'sieur," as
we alighted. Then ten quick eyes took
in my colonel in his horizon -blue ani -
form. I was aware of a throb of
interest. At once there was a scurry
for luggage because the train must be
held till it was off, and the guides
ran forward to the baggage -car to
help. I bundled the colonel down a
sharp, short hill to the river, while
smiling, observant Hurons, missing
not a line of braid or a glitter of but-
ton, passed with bags and paequetons
as we descended. The blue and black
and gold was loaded into a canoe with
an Indian at how and stern for the
three-mile paddle to the club -house.
He was already a schoolboy on a holi-
day with unashamed enthusiasm.
"But it is fun --fun, tis," he shout-
ed to me from his canoe. "And lequel,
m'sieur, which is Rafael?"
Rafael, in the bow of my boat,
missed a beat of his paddle. It seem-
ed to me he looked - older than two,
years back, when I last saw him. His
shoulders were bent, and his Merry
and stately personality was less in
evidence. He appeared subdued. He
did not tern with a smile or a grave
glance of inquiry at the question, as
I had expected. I nodded toward him.
" Mais oui," cried out the colonel.
"One has heard of you, mon ami. One
will talk to you later of shooting."
-Rafael, not lifting his head, answer-
ed quietly: "C'est bien, ni'sieur."
Just then the canoes slipped past a
sandy bar decorated with a fresh
moose track; the excitement of the
colonel set us laughing, This man
was certainly a joy! And with that,
after the long paddle down the wind-
ing river and across two breezy lakes,
we were at the club -house. We lunch-
ed, and in short orders -for we. wanted
to make camp that night --I dug into
my pacquetons and transformed my
officer into a sportsman, his huge de-
Iight in Abernethy & Flitch's crea-
tions being a pari of the game. Then
we were off,
One has small ,chance for associat-
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their surface appetites call for. So,
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LOOKING FORWARD
This is Punch's idea of an. evening •
t
in a suUtlrba_t home in 1980, when the
aeroplane has become as fantiliar as
the automobile.
"You're late, John," said Millie.
"Yes, dear; I missed the five -forty
D.H. from the Battersea Park take-
off. Jones brought me lionte on that
neat little knockabout spad lie's just
bought. Small two-seater, you know,
Then I walked from the 'drone just
to stretch myself. Those planettes
cramp you so!'.,
"011, I'd just love to have an aero-
plarietto like that!" exclaimed Millie.
"Mrs. Smith says she simply couldn't
do without hers now. She can pop
up to town, do her shopping and get
back in an afternoon."
"Um—that pilot of theirs," went on
Millie, "seems just as safe with the
'piip' as he is with their great twin -
engined bus."
"Yes.,' said John; , "must be quite
an undertaking getting Smith's tri•
plane on the sky way. Lt's useful for_
a family party. I hear he packed
twenty or thirty into it fur the picnic
at Jolin-o' Groat's last week. I3y the
way, aren't the ful;insuns corning to
dinner?"
"Yes," you'd -better hurry up and
change," said Millie.
The Robinsons werevery up-to-date
people, John dei J:, -do as they sat
down to the met.I. Ho had not met
thetas before.
"Very glad to know such near neigh-
bors," he said cordially. "Why it
can't be more than forty miles to your
place, I should think."
"It is just forty-seven kilometers, to
be exact," Robinson volunteered. "We
diel it without - any trouble at all in
something uncler twenty minutes."
"Quite gond flyii g I call that," said
John.
"We. canto by the valley route, too,"
put in Mrs. Robinson. "John was good
enough to consider my wretch -6d air -
pocket nerves rather than his petrol."
"It's a couple of miles farther," ex-
plained Robinson, "but my wife isn't
such a stout flyer as her mother,
though the old lady is over seventy.
idy pilot was bringing her from town
last week—took the Dorking -Leith Hill
airway, you know, always bumpy over
there—and I suppose from all ae•
counts he must have dropped her a hum
dred feet plumb, sideslipped and got
into a spinning dive and only pulled
the old bus out again when they could
count the furrows in a ploughed field,
The old lady just leaned forward in
her seat and, When Janes had
adjust.
ed his headpiece, she tapped him on
the shoulder and coolly reprimanded
hint for stunting without orders."
With the dessert came letters by
the late post.
"Oh, please excuse me," said Millie,
as she took them from the maid. "I
see there's a reply from auntie ---the
Edinburgh aunt, you know," she ex-
plained. 'I wrote her this morning,
imploring her to come over to -morrow
for the bazaar."
"What my wife's aunt doesn't know
about flying isn't worth knowing," re.
marked.. John, "and she'll never see
forty again. How's that for an up-to-
date aunt?"
Just at that moment a peculiar
noise, evidently very"`near the house,
arrested the attention of the party.
'Sounded like something breaking,"
said i\Iillie. John had already gone
out to investigate.
In a minute or two he reappeared,
ushering in a jolly old gentleman in a
flying suit.
"A thousand pardons, Mrs. Green,"
said the new .arrival. "John collected
me in the paddock. Hal hal You
know my theory about the paddock."
"Well, the theory's =lashed, any-
how," said John decisively, "and se's
my fence "
"No! No! I won't hear it," laughed
Brown; "I aclntit the fence, but not
the theory. You see," he went on,
turning to 1\Irs. Robinson, "I've always
insisted, as Green knows, that there's
plenty of landing space in his paddock,
provided you clo it up wind. The fact
is 1.was a couple of points out in niy
reckoning and so failed to stop the
old bus short of the fence. You know,
Green," he added, with an injured air,
"you ought to have a wind -pointer so
there'd he no doubt about it."
"Just to encourage feckless old
gentlemen to smash up my tifemises,
I suppose," retorted John. "Bat 1 ad-
mit I found some consolation -for lily
snnslled fence when I observed the
Pathetic appearance of your under
carriage after your fame u0 land"rnh.
2,000,000 E3rioks in Chimney.
Standing 20t) feet high, a chimney
stack nt Northampton, which con-
tained 2,000,000 bricks, end to tk two
years to build, was felled recently. It
was file third highest in the 1cit:gdcsln.
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