Exeter Advocate, 1915-4-15, Page 6THE
.F.Arik....0F. ANNA;
Or, The South African Millionaire.
CRAPTER 11%-etentimieta. "
"Sae' I shall he &nen in a moment."
For one inetant as the beard the de-
acending stare of the groom of the eham-
boa,
who although, be ritrely contieecend-
ed to elab to the eeeond gear. had done
so Mr; afternoon and refrained from
leaning Mademeiseite Louise. the
beeaue he felt that something of import
wee in the air in keepteg with the hour
and the drawn blinds,wah the silence of
the big beuee, she felt as if bqr heart bad
stopped beating, as if her head were sud-
denly wheeling round and .round. Then
she opened the doer and went delve the
-•big etatreeete whieh invited. nay insist-
ed, on dignity in the using of it.
He -was starelng in the doorway of the
drawing -room with his arras bellieat bane
leek:rig ter her conang.
how Would it be half an tour hence?
lie took her twa bands in lite -as elle
eembed the landing and drew her into
the room and lasted her.
I May. marcia Ita be sad, and there
'wee .the-joyousnese of a vertaiate ta his
VOteo,. the certainty of 'being loved. as lie
locket which bridges over every convert-
tonalnY. even ire Pitteadilly.. and hie
worde, sea*, bie. having kissed her.
her with pain, and it horrible 155a
•inc aueotenty to carry out her teak.
- "After ate why should I? ehe said to
eierself. you done. it yare don't,' said
another S'Oef.• witfell had no time to tell.
every:ham that winald happen, because.
joy and zin, rerattrite Mid terror. hope
• and allatientes were vie Mingled that she
could ree hear what it said. But Ow
!mew it wee threatening, and that some-
thing wither ineated on her telling, he-
e4.1;c•e the own who stood there. Any
other pian it Viell141 riot have mattered so -
meter, but hoe geod angel was to.
day. kier gOod angel and hue were frier -idea
was the thought which piereed, why had
she not spared aim. and +neared berselt
by neon, rather than by confeesiona_
Men, • perhaps because fewer thugs
touch them, or beedeuee their upbringing
/daces them in closer contact with reality
twhile -women often concoct emotion in
order to cull experieneee feel more etroug.
ly. when they do feel, then women do, and
to eir Hubert Gresbam this seemed the
most awful thing be had ever heard.
while, without being aware of it, be was
tellingaitreett that when this sort of
thing happened the woman should go
away somewhere, not be seen again, or
labelled. What he wee also -telling him-
self, unceneciously, was that the horror
bad for the moment swamped the grief
at his own lees. It no longer seemed a
lese, eine-es it lima no longer a desirable
posseesion.
N'ever once did the lbnightof marrying
her in eleeptto of it come to latin-not orate
And as she told bine. the horror of it
seemed to strike her for the firet time,
the nauseating character of it.
As. she told him, she seemed to see it all
I again, the big country house. the moon
• gieaming through the window curtains
to hear the creak of the ancient beards
in the corridor, the footfall nearing the
door, to feel again the heating of her
heart, the strange numbing of her body.
' what emotions aud deeires awoke whieli
seemed like the oompletion of some novel
she had read, with an awful, yet irrevoe-
able climax. and then . . the months in
Palate where she had gone to study art,
they snail, and then the return, at
aarently a gal. yet with the yearning
vain of ueeless, vein motherhood in her
heart, and the empty arms which tiered
not (sleep the repudiated guordou of her
pain.
Bow ghastly it all seemed today. Then,
the event had seemed to preclude some or
the sensibility. Now to -day., nothing re-
mained but its sickening echo, which
seemed to call mockingly from jungles
tbitet with uoieorted weed, where the sun
never penetrated.
Once be uttered alreeet unconsciously:
But It was riot your fault, you couldn't
help it . . .
And hope returned again, fleeting, even-
eseent. like the rem March, leaving a
dead cold shadow behind. Once he ground
hie teeth, and muttered: -The brute - the
low cur . • •
Then, at the end of her recital lie ftood
up and eAtile ta her, and laid les hand
an her eh -tattler.
eY•ea den* know haw sorry I am for
you."
And by 11;:t, very yams, el.e knew that all
:1W over, eial ehie. eaa there aali her face
in her teo hands and moaned. In the
face his unready spectral, Iris want of
inietaces. a seemed futile to plead, te
plain even, any further.
-Arid you anew that no one -tio one
watt ever Ilan.' trom tee -never. It was
geed of you to tell me I know what it
nmet breve toet you, but . . but
settle day things will look brighter." taw
woefulle lame everything he ',aid. sound-
ed. and he wonted to settee° =eh: that
lie didn't really blame her. that it wits
not her fault and that tare must try and
forget. Yet beeatree the 'words would not
tenne, because the large beautiful room
veliath made the right setting to the wo-
men. seamed to suffocate him, he said
t)n"IlY'am sure that you want to be quiet
now. ai lie down arid reet, and try and
forget all about it. 1.11 go now, and then
you want me at any time, send fur
me; you know I will always be your
friend, don't you?"
And Lady Judith rose. The new expres-
sion on ber face he eerieri not read, the
despair imprinted there by the sudden
realization that. this wile the begaming
of retribution. All that he could not read,
because for weeks past he had been read-
ing something elee. and he could not un-
derstand the new hieroglyphics.
-Yes, perhays I had better lie down now
a little." She smiled, almost laughed,
and he wondered how she could! She held
out her hand, lie held it for one mo-
ment, then he dropped it.
In another moment tie had gone. She
beard his step across the teeeelated hall,
she heard the footman, who always sat
there, open the door and she heard it
slain again. She had one impulse to rush
to the window to see the laet of him, as
he walked past in that breezy way of hie,
with his coat-tails flying like -wings, hear-
ing him onward to triumphs untold. But
she couldn't. She had turned to stone in-
werdly outwardly. The terrible drama
was over, and it seemed a tame ending
that ehe should walk acroei the room and
mount the stairs again, as if she bad only
been entertaining a caller. But there was
a, less tame ending than even she sue-
peeted.
When the door slammed on Sir Hubert
Gresham, it closed on another, a, new and
more awful Lady Judith, a Lady Judith
with a dead soul within her.
CHASTER 'V.
arra in the face of beep:neve, she grew
elionge
' Yon know, thent you, that I love you.
that 1 warn you to marry rue? On, Ju -
dab . ." Ile clasped her bandit a, his
till he eineat tart her. rind hie strang,
true, honest young lave wae- ehireing in
Ice eye, ,41 that it daseed here
Yet !Ile sheer foree of love esomed for
the itiitpieltt to dt...tirate every emotion in
both of caviar then was no: nob et he
voled tee let ea&e,en have ,reythaig to
do weal it., awe tar .Intiele and she. it
etemed to her that eavre.•'..e ,••t teat' at the, ,
moment WC, the only ibiew that could;
P.:1;ee her to iiie :tate. 1
Silts tookte: ere ey, t rad to
teed *here what he 4int.il ray :4 teM. •
"'Vol th''. ii.'; 7. IC 11;1'4 an % "
were a,. geed .1.- it oleo ent,'
arid he to,a tie. inter:Kea,- ea bet' sear, '
icg lok•,,t be ti:e e.;•, -::t Of her tenetem. •
anhougie ie. hind iretureddifferierte
ream-. in -In'laid her freed n les ,
breae, aria titatarig ett to Oier•
I .1. 114:h -44% "el •41. V the weeds; hal
aetera to hear.
We all. hi our' imagaratien. take our
I'S trent thing., we hate read, and he
had mail somewhere ahem e grl eta' had i
hal her le -041 in a mane. wait -aye:, and
ateepertel. "I eat. von." so that he had
'toOlt n^ ...Well tile W•iril:1,
'instead ••yee syned drawn ta ho
al, if by magnetiem.
"lio I? What do yea think?"
-Weald hen st12 ,-are eve!' if Prey; it:
sonevee told you etimethiug :ibex *
Ile del not tell lien' that aeeral peapie
had teal him things of her, advesed Iran
to be careful, belted at her hying fate.
But he had not eared, lie had atwaye
been reterlera and daring, but it hind
been eonfidetey in himeelf. riot reeklpase
nese. WIl&•11 had made him epurn ail
these euggeetions, vonfirierzaa er his tiV, an
judgment of a womaree eharacter. He
didn't believe that Judith was feet, not
more than in the way thet all her set.
and hie for the matter of that, went the
Pace. He wouldn't have eared to marry
woman who waena quite up to date.
but he didn't believe that she was feet,
not in the sense of immoral, and he had
rut down all that had been said to jeal-
ousy, jealousy of the men 'who didn't want
birn to marry the prettie t woman in
London, jealousy of the women because
of her beauty. He remembered that al-
ways he had been friends with a girl
ci meone had said something.
I should like to know who could say
anything of you to me."
she gave an odd smile.
"No one could tell you anything worse
than I am going to tell you myself."
She eat down on one side of the table,
and he knelt, with one knee on a chair,
on the other. Between them rose a huge
epergne, hideous of design, but very valu-
able, being fashioned by Boviero, full of
roeee,
al won't hear it. I haven't told you
yet, 'want you to marry me. Judith,'
and you haven't actually said 'awe not
in the words I mean,"
"I can't, Hubert, unless you hear me."
Now suddenly she rushed into it all,
hardly knowing that she was telling him,
what she was saying, tearing her happi-
ness into shred, as one rips a, piece of
stuff in two, only the tear made no noise,
en the contrary the silence held in it
something awful. Was it only the asp-
halt that deadened the found of the traf-
fie outside, or had all traffic stopped?
The (servants -were they all dead that
none came or went? And Lady GlaucAaurt,
was she still asleep? No bell downstairs,
no telegraph boy,- no sling wagon leaving
a purchase at the door, no cry of news- I
paper boys, only at the back the chire of
sparraws. The roomgiven over to ishad-
ow by the wn . s, by the awnings
outside, given over to a golden, hazy i
shadow, like the russet rich backgrounds
antique pictures, and the flies on the
ceiling seemed istationary• as if -they lis-
tened, her own heart beating seemed to
beat in her ears, and the man breathing s
heavily, leaning forward nate, his two
hands clutching the table, while he etill t
knelt in the arm -chair, his eyes looking t
away from her to one of the veiled •win-
dows, ;bemuse he could not bear to meet t
her eyes, because of the shame he Would t
meet an hers, because of the horror ehe
would read in hie.
And between them, murmured like an
evil incantation, conjuring up wicked t
visions, the story, the foul story of a
bruised lily, a sullied soul, a -virgin soiled.
Never had. anything like this been told
him, not by a woman of herself, never in
Filch surroundings, beneath the gaze of
men end women and children depicted by
sublime painter -a. with the perfume of
flowers wafting across a room hung with
silken panels over carpets soft as wood-
land mass and Buhl and Sheratam
on d
levvelled. tables, on which reposed kniole
knacks, each one of -which represented a
small fortune. Not from the lipshee a
woniaan as fair as this woman.
Why had she allowed it to come to thio,
"He did come, didn't he?"
It was not till they were seated in their
victoria, one of tluese high backed ones
which were, ay the bye, invented and
made the fashion (like so many other
things which respectable and even very
religious women imitate) by a "cocotte"
in Pares, that Lady GIaucourt put the
question which- her lips were burning to
ask Lady Judith, Except for a slight pal.
or, that eould have been attributed 'to
the -teat of the'daa, which, noteeithstancl-
ng the hour, seemed to have concentrated
n dusty haze of glare on the constantly
maeded traffic of Piccadilly, there -were
no traces of the half hour of mental and
alinost physical agony Judith had spent
n the drawing -room, and ehe was looking
away into the street with an almost in-
olent look, as if she queetioned the right
of great wagons to stop them at every,
urn, and eritioized the policemen, and
he Board at Agriculture, or whatever
government -department look e after the
raffle. For England is peculiar in that
he name of its department has rarely
anything to do with its occupation. One
would never /be surprised to hear that, it
was the business of -the Home Secretary
o attend to Foreign miosions, and the ex-
patriation of emigrants, or of the 'War
atinistor to inspect school books and
almshouses. And. Lady Glamcourt, as she
asked the question looked in. little diffi-
dently at her profile. The loveliness of it
had lately ceased to have as much effect
on her mother, as its expression of feel-
in&e...e was not much leve lost between
mother and, daughter. On one side there
was the sense of having failed, for Lade-
Glaucourt eves much more worldly than
she intended to be; and en the other, a
sense of want of appreoletion of the readi-
Twee with whieh the had responded to
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imam; mina.
bye motheee neglect: And between, them
the impenetrable veil of the terrible sea
cret which could only have been Pierced
by one of those complete surrenders of
lootron On both dides, which both were
far loo well-bred to give -way to. On the
one side there should have -been anguish
ed remorse, and on the other ddespair-Inshame, but there was neither,
Lady Glaueourt had suspected, but sit
bad never known for certain. Only eh
had agreed to allow her daughter to 0
and s*udy _art In Perils, much to every
one's curpraie.
But slave the allowed her to go. it Iva
charaeterietie of tody Glancourt that eh
saw to it that the episode pataed off wit
a certain decorum. Judith bad been ac
vompanied by exactly the right sort. o
person, and the story bad, never trau
spired.
When the girl returned, her mother re-
ferred to 21w episode once mid for all,
is all very disgraceful,- cue land said
"and I Met it may never occur again.
Pleeee remember that I know nothing
about it, that I do not, wish to know, so
that if anyone ever asks me I can speak
the truth when I say that I know no
thing.'
There had bee; no tears, and the men
tal anti plryeical anguleli the girl bad
pasted *aweigh eeerned presently to be-
long (xelus:vely to Paris, to some
strange metaporplioris of herself reeenth
ling 41 transfiguration and 'which had no
thing whatever to do with London or
Piccadilly, or even her life. Her father
lived and died without knowing. He was
the kind of man a family keeps .every
thing disgraceful from, and it, VAS 'WOO
derful, con,idering what a very line char
acter he had. that so many disgraceful
things did happen in his family without
his knowing it, If he had known Ito
would never have held up hie bead again,
And to lur mother's question, 'which ir
ritated her, hecauee ebe anew it -was corn-
ing. she answered:
"It you mean Sir Hubert Gresham, yes
he came."
"Of course I mean Sir Hubert. Well-"
A bitch, which this time Judith thought
a merciful interposition, 'brought them
alongelde of a eeretage -with another mo-
ther and daughter whom they knew. The
momentous; question gave Ivey to tin) 114-
ual remarks.
"Did you ever see such a thing?"
"No, we are not going.".
"Gone off dreadfully, don't you think?"
"She Oh. dreadful. They say he is in
defpair."
-"Another?"
"Appendicitis."
"All married women."
"Chamberlain furloue, they say."
"Twenty thonea.nd pounds."
"Constance Morland?"
"Marlborough House."
"Paquin."
It Vas not till they got far away be
yond the parks on the way to the garden
partyeat Roehampton to which they were
driving, that her mother asked the ques-
tion again, this time more pointedly.
"Do you mean to say that he said no-
thing?"
"Ile said a great deal."
"You are always so provoking, Judith.
Of course, since you want the dote on the
its, I mean did he propose? Certainly af-
ter the way you both talked on the ter-
race at the Bradmere's, one felt that there
could be nothing left for you to talk
about unless he proposed."
Judith gave a little bitter laugh.
-It seems that there was something left
to talk about, for we talked for quite an
hour, and then he went."
"Went, and didn't propose."
Lady Glaucourt's face expressed all her
disappointment, and with the feeling that
after all her mother had a right to know,
and that, whatever anguish it was to her
to talk about it, it would have to be got
over, lind that, this time •was as good as
any other, Lady Judith went on:
."Yes, he proposed." , •
Inwardly Lady Giallo t ejaculated:
'Thank goodness."
"So you are engaged, dear; r eel very
glad." She laid her hand on Judith's
without affection, ;but with appreciation.
"No, I am rot engaged, if I had beetle'
would have told you."
A. moment of terrible silence, while Laxly
Glaucourt tried to find adequate words in
-which to express her disappointment,
while Judith felt that her another guess-
ed. Then in lower tones, insistent, almost
-whiepered, uttered with d,ry lips: •
"Was it-wae it about that?"
"Yee, it -was about that." Lady Judith
spoke too, with dry lips. her voice was
hard, andasha emphasized the word "that,"
bitterly. It would always !be "theta tem
in her mind. Surely her mother had no
need to ask But she had long a -go real-
ized that their relations to each other
were different to that between herself and
other women, only from the fact, -that her
mother dared ask her more cruel ques-
tione than anyone else. At that instant
when her mother failed to spare her, she
hated her.
Yet, the tact that she had told her, that
there was nothing mere to come, calmed
her a little.
"But how on meth did he know?" Lady
Glaucourt asked presently.
"I told hint." -
Lady Glamcourt sat up In the carriage
for a moment, and stared at her daugh-
ter's face,
"Yam?"
"Yes I told him; I had my reasons," •
"Good heavens!"
Two carriages ;passed them -with friends
In both, and, les they paeeed, Lady Glau-
court poked the .groom with her parasol.
"Aren't we going very, slowly, George?"
The eoachmen whipped up the horees,
and soonthey were beneath the duet of
the carriages in front of them,
"Stop, stop I" Lady Glance -art, poked
George again in the ribs. "We can't
stand that dust!"
'George -wee' eaeustonied to pokes, and
hadd, a, lowed piele of sr diboaxd under his
waieteoat. in the ;place' Lady Glaecourt al-
ways chore. Ceiee mate :the co/eel:main
reined in his loreese lie, 'too, .hed' grown
patient -with the wham, et- -women.:
"You will have to,marrY Ilagh,Gloyer."
"That I 'will nevez do," ezel Lady' Ju-
,
dith, ad they- Pulled UP an Oleg -fume --af
carriage° within the •gates 'of the amnia -
fat house,, which, her all its magnilieenee,
was yet eniburban,' and, while sairaelian,
was beautiful as &aerate in Bpain;
"Well, I don't see what else you are, go-
ing to do," eala her -mother, taking a
beautiful wrap of black lace from the
groom's hands. Lady Judith followed her
mother into the garden with the !sweetest
smile on her lipe. This, she told benself
grimly, wee her firet appearance en pule
tic iti her new Tole, s
ero be tontinueda
PROP. ADAAt mom,
Since Youth His One Real Interest
Has Been Economy Study.
Prof. Adam Shortt, of the Civil
Service Commission -t Ottawa, is
generally described as "Canada's
leading political economist." -
Prof. Shortt was born in an old
Ontario mill village called
Xii-
worth, on the banks of the Thames,
near London. His father was a mil-
ler. Later the village disappeared
altogether, although another ham-
let which sprang up some miles dis-
tant bears the name Kilworth
Bridge, As a boy the coming poli-
tical economist was a hard worker.
He was a good student at the High
School at Walkerton„ and he "put
himself through" Queen's, as most
university students did in those
days, by teaching school. After
graduation „at Queen's he went, in
1884, to Scotland and took post-
graduate work at Glasgow and
Edinburgh Universities; repeating
his record at Queen's by becoming
in each institution a medalist in
philosophy. His long vacations he
spent tramping through Great Bri-
tain and continental Europe pick-
ing up first-hand knowledge of Old
World social and industrial condi-
tions. His interest steadily con-
centrated on political economy,
and, returning to Canada, he was,
in 1889, aptaointed lecturer in poli-
tical science at Queen's, and three
9. years later he became professor in
e the same subject, the chair even-
tually being endowed by the ,late
Senator Gowan and other admirers
of Sir John A. Macdonald, whose
name it bears.
b, Meantime, in 18$8, Prof. Shortt
• mavied Elizabeth Smith, M.D.,
who has herself become 'well known
for her services in directing the
terests of Canadian women into
, helpful channels,
His Books.
Prof. Shortt is a well-known
. writer on economic and historical
subjects. Some years ago he eon
tributed to the journal of the Can-
Prof. Athini Shortt.
adian Bankers' Association a series
of articles on the development of
the Canadian banking and currency
systems which represented an im-
mense amount of research and
whieh were much discussed. Per-
haps his best-known contribution
to current problems is his "Imper-
ial Preferential Ikade from a Can-
adian Point of View," a study of
the British fiscal situation. It re-
vealed his belief in freedom of
trade, coupled with recognition of
the fact that wide variations of in-
idustriaPand social conditions make
it impossible to maintain that any
one fiscal system is expedient for
all times and places, and also his
f6ith in the efficiency of autonomy
as the only enduring basis of Im-
perial co-operation and unity.
In his Life of Lord Sydenham in
"The Makers of Canada" series,
Prof. Shortt describes the course
of events in the momentous days of
the establishment of responsible
government in' Canada. In colla-
boration 'with Dr. Doughty, the
Dominion Archivist, he edited a
collection of constitutional clocu-
nients on the period from 178a to
1791, many of which are made ac-
cessible for the first time. A sec-
ond volume deals with the period
from 1791 to 1841. These ,works led
to the selection of Prof. Shortt and
Dr. Douglity as joint editors of a
new ten -volume history of Canada.
When the first Labor 001MMig-
sion was formed under the Lemieux
Act; Prof. Shortt was appointed
chairman, his colleagues being
Wallace Nesbitt and G. O'Don-
oghue,to apply the'A
ict in the dis-
pute n April, 7907, between the
c9-17ani;dtsT. r"k ThailwaY and its 1:12'
In 1908 Prof. Shortt was appoint-
ed One Of the Civil Service Coannaiiii-
sioners under the new Act, the idea
being to take a step forward in the
direction of the abolition,. of the
p atro g.e system, tip ``take the
civil service but of patios."
Of late years Prof. Shortt bps
done a good deal of speaking ..at
Canadian clubs and other gather-
ings. They, say he never reads a
ti,rivrd Hip chief hobbies are gar-
dening and wood carving.
In 1911 he was created a, cora-
,
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panion of St. Michael and St.
George in the Coronation favors.
110W PARIS WAS SATED BT
THE EN GUSH.
By Chas. M. Bice.
The inside facts about the famous
retreat from Mons in Belgium, are
slowly coming out as the war pro-
gresses, "Retreat" is a word
which no Englislunan likes to pro-
nounce, but it has gained an hon-
orable meaning by recent exploits
The retreat of General French and
his army from Mans, is, one of the
grandest and most brilliant mili-
tary achievemeuts .111.-- the world's
history. It adds a, brand new page
to British gallantry, and inita the
name of Sir john French on the
highest pinnacle for military ae-
complishments.
The ehargt of the Germans
against his little army, was the
mightiest and fastest cyclone of the
great struggle — that sweep to
wards Paris beats anything the an
nals of war have ever known. The
Allies and Germans had just touch-
ed"tufts," in the parlance of pug -
The strong French line had gone
and was 80 miles in the rear:
French's army of 80,000 held out
against the oncoming tide of Ger-
mans.
Ten thousand Custer Massacres,
all rolled into one were at hand or
a rout such as history has never be-
fore known. Some must stay and
fight, while -the others fall back and
prepare the trenches. The heron.,
lean task may be realized when we
consider that there was artillery to
move and thousands of tons of
plies and ammunition to be trans-
ported in autos.
There were horses to save, and
the roads would hold only so much
traffic, and there must be no jams,
cool heads must plan it all. Soma
must fall far behind and dig trench-,
es, so that the retreating army
could hide and put up theiradaily
and nightly fight with the Germans.
Others must have time to eat and
sleep, and the wounded must be
taken care of. All these things
were done perfectly and no genera',
• in history ever had such a perilous
- retreat to direct. General French
was dashing about everywhere in
his auto, and measuring the physic-
al foroe his little array had left. He
ilistic nomenclature, before the on-
slaught began, and then the enemy
with overwhelming numbers and
equipment, rushed in with a torn -
1
melt, not oaly the exaet strengtt
of his own. army but the strengta
of his apponent as well. '
Tito lightning blows sent in by
ado of blows they had been saving the Germans were terrific, the
up for over forty years, Ninth Lancers were mowed doter
Germany had caleulated that this
first round would be a. knoek-out,
and probably 'no army in all history
has ever taken the beating and lived
through the milling, keeping its
legs and head, as did the English
army through the thirteen awful
i
days n which the Germans put in
their lightning strokes,
It was an all but irresistable on-
slaught. If General Freneh had
stood his ground and fought, in all
probability it would have been a
clean knock -out, for he had greatly
inferior numbers, if he ran it
would be a complete rout and prob-
ably annihilation.
Foot -work and a cool head, side-
stepping and protecting his body
would have been the tactics of a
great ring fighter. French followed
these tactics exactly. But the thing
that makes Britain gasp, and -will
make the world wonder when ap-
prised of the details of that great
retreat from Mons, was not a prize
fight, but the most frantic and ter-
rible rush of the greatest and best
disciplined army the world has
ever known. For a man to have
kept his head in all that, as if the
event were a mere prize fight, with
only a knock -out at stake, instead
of the annihilation of 80,000 men is
the thing that the world will wond-
er at. It was on August 22, 1914
that the English and Germans first
met in battle at Mons, the English
having only arrived on the scene
the day before, and were informed
by the Frenth that "There axe not
more than two German carpa in
front of you." General French and
his men had just come to the scene
and he had taken the Frenchmen's
word for it. Sunday afternoon
came the 'surprise. A courier
brought a message to General
French from Jioffre'the French
General. It said in effect; "Four
German army corps are coming up
again at you. We have fallen back,"
like grass: the Stir Hussars were
almost wiped out. Bullets flew
around General French as around
the most ordinary soldier. Poi
thirteen days in this great runnin2
battle, he kept his men as cool-
headed almost as himself. At last
the English reached the Marne.
This gave them a, chance for mud:
needed rest, but the Germans were
tired out, to. The tool foot -work
of the English had exhausted them,
they were tired out trying to hit
the tiny foe which always eluded
their blows.
The German general, Von Klink,
made his mistake, he turned his
flank to the English, intending to
pass before them, and move over
-to join the axmy of the German
Crown Prince and advance on Pa.
ris. French was watching, and
saw that Von Klink had dropped
his guard and had exposed his jaw,
and the lightning English spaxrer,
the man whose fists were armies,
struck like a flash. The Germans,
off their guard, received a blow •
they could not parry. They lost
hundreds of big guns and thousands
of men. The French were doing
their part, 60,000 soldiers in taxi-
cabs and autos came to back. up
the English'but General French'e
blorw had taken the nerve all out of
the Germans, and their retreat be-
came an ignoble rout. Thus was •
Paris saved mad the German plans
completely frustrated by a mere
handful of England's first expedi-
'tionary force.
CHAS. M. BICE,
Denver, March 30, 1915.
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forgetting, me, said Miss Pec -his,
as she- entered the parlor. "I am
for getting you," said the youth;
'that's why I came to -night. May.
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110W PARIS WAS SATED BT
THE EN GUSH.
By Chas. M. Bice.
The inside facts about the famous
retreat from Mons in Belgium, are
slowly coming out as the war pro-
gresses, "Retreat" is a word
which no Englislunan likes to pro-
nounce, but it has gained an hon-
orable meaning by recent exploits
The retreat of General French and
his army from Mans, is, one of the
grandest and most brilliant mili-
tary achievemeuts .111.-- the world's
history. It adds a, brand new page
to British gallantry, and inita the
name of Sir john French on the
highest pinnacle for military ae-
complishments.
The ehargt of the Germans
against his little army, was the
mightiest and fastest cyclone of the
great struggle — that sweep to
wards Paris beats anything the an
nals of war have ever known. The
Allies and Germans had just touch-
ed"tufts," in the parlance of pug -
The strong French line had gone
and was 80 miles in the rear:
French's army of 80,000 held out
against the oncoming tide of Ger-
mans.
Ten thousand Custer Massacres,
all rolled into one were at hand or
a rout such as history has never be-
fore known. Some must stay and
fight, while -the others fall back and
prepare the trenches. The heron.,
lean task may be realized when we
consider that there was artillery to
move and thousands of tons of
plies and ammunition to be trans-
ported in autos.
There were horses to save, and
the roads would hold only so much
traffic, and there must be no jams,
cool heads must plan it all. Soma
must fall far behind and dig trench-,
es, so that the retreating army
could hide and put up theiradaily
and nightly fight with the Germans.
Others must have time to eat and
sleep, and the wounded must be
taken care of. All these things
were done perfectly and no genera',
• in history ever had such a perilous
- retreat to direct. General French
was dashing about everywhere in
his auto, and measuring the physic-
al foroe his little array had left. He
ilistic nomenclature, before the on-
slaught began, and then the enemy
with overwhelming numbers and
equipment, rushed in with a torn -
1
melt, not oaly the exaet strengtt
of his own. army but the strengta
of his apponent as well. '
Tito lightning blows sent in by
ado of blows they had been saving the Germans were terrific, the
up for over forty years, Ninth Lancers were mowed doter
Germany had caleulated that this
first round would be a. knoek-out,
and probably 'no army in all history
has ever taken the beating and lived
through the milling, keeping its
legs and head, as did the English
army through the thirteen awful
i
days n which the Germans put in
their lightning strokes,
It was an all but irresistable on-
slaught. If General Freneh had
stood his ground and fought, in all
probability it would have been a
clean knock -out, for he had greatly
inferior numbers, if he ran it
would be a complete rout and prob-
ably annihilation.
Foot -work and a cool head, side-
stepping and protecting his body
would have been the tactics of a
great ring fighter. French followed
these tactics exactly. But the thing
that makes Britain gasp, and -will
make the world wonder when ap-
prised of the details of that great
retreat from Mons, was not a prize
fight, but the most frantic and ter-
rible rush of the greatest and best
disciplined army the world has
ever known. For a man to have
kept his head in all that, as if the
event were a mere prize fight, with
only a knock -out at stake, instead
of the annihilation of 80,000 men is
the thing that the world will wond-
er at. It was on August 22, 1914
that the English and Germans first
met in battle at Mons, the English
having only arrived on the scene
the day before, and were informed
by the Frenth that "There axe not
more than two German carpa in
front of you." General French and
his men had just come to the scene
and he had taken the Frenchmen's
word for it. Sunday afternoon
came the 'surprise. A courier
brought a message to General
French from Jioffre'the French
General. It said in effect; "Four
German army corps are coming up
again at you. We have fallen back,"
like grass: the Stir Hussars were
almost wiped out. Bullets flew
around General French as around
the most ordinary soldier. Poi
thirteen days in this great runnin2
battle, he kept his men as cool-
headed almost as himself. At last
the English reached the Marne.
This gave them a, chance for mud:
needed rest, but the Germans were
tired out, to. The tool foot -work
of the English had exhausted them,
they were tired out trying to hit
the tiny foe which always eluded
their blows.
The German general, Von Klink,
made his mistake, he turned his
flank to the English, intending to
pass before them, and move over
-to join the axmy of the German
Crown Prince and advance on Pa.
ris. French was watching, and
saw that Von Klink had dropped
his guard and had exposed his jaw,
and the lightning English spaxrer,
the man whose fists were armies,
struck like a flash. The Germans,
off their guard, received a blow •
they could not parry. They lost
hundreds of big guns and thousands
of men. The French were doing
their part, 60,000 soldiers in taxi-
cabs and autos came to back. up
the English'but General French'e
blorw had taken the nerve all out of
the Germans, and their retreat be-
came an ignoble rout. Thus was •
Paris saved mad the German plans
completely frustrated by a mere
handful of England's first expedi-
'tionary force.
CHAS. M. BICE,
Denver, March 30, 1915.
"It's so long singe you ealled.that,
I was he -ginning to think yon werei
forgetting, me, said Miss Pec -his,
as she- entered the parlor. "I am
for getting you," said the youth;
'that's why I came to -night. May.
have you?"
nitaEy ,r1
as,
et•
ata
Make your home more
attractive, and protect it
,from fire with these beau-
tiful, sanitary
" Metallic "
1,71.4,::::th.a. ,,,, ,lit,,,....11,A
m..,- -..,..*..,,:*:....... r• •
,t e ....... q - -,.,1 ..... .....:w
• ......... ! , 4,.
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4;-- •_ip grigetair.
41
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5
Ii
eas
ili
Cengs and Walls
They win out -Jest the banding end are very inexpensive. They can be brightened
from year to Year tAkith little pini at a trifling cost. Made In innumerable beautiful
detageseuitable to all styles of rooms. Can he erected over old plaster as well as in
new buildings, 'Mite for catalogue. •
We maaefacterea complete line of Sheet Metal Building Materials, 9
THE METALLIC ROOFING CO., LIMITED
haIaitufeeturere
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