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(knew that she despised her. And after
a few hours of her company she carne
very near
to hating
ating her,Tullln cA E AN `edouutt acstsyeotphezezrdaeinganer e
handernat thevs
letter had bidden her be guided by her
AN EXCITING PRES PIT -DAY ROMANCE mother, and so long as it was possible,
she would obey; but she had an in-
13Y WEAT HERBY CHESNEY
CHAPTER XIII. (Cont'd.)
"You have. quarrelled? I'm sorry;
because I like -you, unit I like Eisa
Carrington. She treated me with a
fair amount of scorn on the night
when she rescued me from the Ring
Rock, and I suppose I ought to hate
her; but I don't, because she was de -
ending her father. Is he the thence
aaa
on which you and ,•l•e have quarrelled,
too ?"
'.VTe haven't quarrelled," said Scar-
borough.
"But your idyll isn't working itself
out smoothly? There is a jarring
note ?"
"Yes."
"Then I'll help you if I van. Mrs.
Carrington is a thorough bad lot. I
don't know her well, but I know that.
Your future wife didn't make a lucky
choice of pareets."
"Can you give me details?" said
Scarborough quietly:
Mona de la Mar ,:hot a quick glance
at hint. His face Iooked almost hag-
gard. He was :•offering. She did not
know how it would help him to hear
what she could tell; but he said it
would. So she told him what she
knew.
"She is a woman of the world, in
the worst sense of the word—heart-
lese. extravagant, selfish. When I
knt•: her, she was a woman of fas-
hion, too, and probably the biggest
pill in all the dose she was made to
swallow two years ago, was, to her,
the necessity of ceasing to play that
part. If Elsa Carrington's father
was a thief—I don't know whether
you consider that doubtful—I think it
was because he had an expensive and
worthless wife. He was a criminal,
a clever criminal; but it was she who
drove him to crime. Her craving
for di, -play ruined him, because he
tried to satisfy it. I believe he lov-
ed her. At any rate he stole for her.
His character was weaker than hers;
for tiers, though shallow, is forceful—
strong in its very defects of glittering
hardness and utter selfishness. There,
that is the portrait of your future
mother-in-law, as I saw her ! How
do you like it?"
Scarborough did not answer.
"There is one thing more," said
Mona. "She was wonderfully beauti-
fuI. That is one quality which her
daughter seems to have inherited from
nor.
Still Scarborough was silent. Mona
leaned forward and put her hand on
his arm.
"I don't know whether I am right in
telling you all this," she said. I don't
believe in the doctrine of heredity
much myself; but perhaps you do.
Are you afraid ?"
"Afraid?" he asked.
"Afraid that the daughter may have
inherited more from her mother than
beauty? I don't think you need be,
and I believe I am rather a good
judge of character."
"If you think that Elsa Carrington
is the sweetest girl that ever lived,
you are.." said Scarborough gravely.
"If you don't think so, I shall take the
liberty of calling you, not a geed
judge, but the pooreet."
"Ah, good! You are right," said
Mona with a smile of relief. "And the
jarring note in your idyll will tune it-
self into harmony presently. Now tell
me why you wanted to know all this?"
Scarborough pointed to the harbor,
A small steamer was coming in under
a cloud of black smoke.
"That is the Funchal, from Lisbon,"
he said, and Mrs. Carrington is on
I e ti
and
co sf ess
Indigestion, biliousness, head-
aches, flatulence, pains after
eating, constipation, are all com-
mon symptoms of stomach and
liver troubles. And the more
you neglect them the more you
suffer. Take Mother Seigel's
Syrup if your stomach, liver, or
bowels are slightly deranged or
MOTHER
SYRUP
have lost tone. Mother Seigel's
Syrup is made from the curative
extracts of certain roots, barks,
and leaves, which have a re-
markable tonic and strengthen-
ing effect on all the organs of
digestion. The distressing symp-
toms of indigestion or liver
troubles soon disappear under
its beneficial action. Buy a
bottle to -clay, but be sure you
get the genuine Mother Seigel's
Syrup. There are many ifnita-
tions; but nut one that gives the
same health benefits. tol5
is the
BestRemedy
WOW K,1 Tv Tr: 'MY) ':l7.It1 ONT Y,
FULL SiZE, Price 1.00 TRIAL, SiZE, Price Bos
board. I wanted to know whether I
should find in her a friend or an en- i
my. You have told me."
Mona laughed.
"111 tell you anuther thing," she
said. "If my twenty thousand pounds
were, as we suppose, converted into ,
diamonds, and if Richmond Carring-
ton was robbed of them, and perhaps
lost: his life in defending them, I don't •
think the thief will succeed in getting
away from San Miguel with them I
now.
"Who will?" Scarborough asked
quickly. ._`You, their owner?"
"No. The woman who is advancing
towards ue under that pall of black
smoke—Rachel Carrington."
CHAPTER XIV. '
I think," said Mrs. Carrington, i
"that you have been very imprudent.j
• I don't in the lest expect to find that i
jar in the place in which you say you
put it. What induced you to choose I
such a ridiculous hiding -place?"
"Father said, 'The safest place you •
know.' That was the fissure in the j
Ring -Rock," : aid Elsa,
"Absurd':" said Mrs. Carrington.
"Your father was a fool to trust you."
Elsa bit her lip and did not answer.
Her mother had been in the island of
San Miguel twenty-four hours, and al- }'
ready Elsa had grown tired of the
,useless endeavor to defend the dead
against her sneer:. A dull rage
against this handsome, grumbling wo- I
man was burning in her heart, and it
was only by an effort that she kept
back her tears.
i Mrs. Carrington had landed on the
!quay at Ponta Delgada with a grum- 1
hle. Why was her husband not there
to meet her ? Elsa, in the mistaken !
idea that the truth might be too great
stinctive feeling that soon it would
not be possible.
Mrs. Carrington had demanded to
be taken to the Ring -rock at once, in relationship between number of acres
•
This Experiment Favors Pasture.
The problem that many farmers
en eavar>ng to solve is the proper
are
d
or er at s e m g ge no het and number of cows, Generally I
hands as soon as possible tine packet would say that it does not pay to
which Elsa bad hidden there. Elsa put a large herd of cows on a farm
would have liked to have believed that too mall to atTord pasturage for
this eagerness was prompted by albs- them. Our results at the Ontario
iety to read the evidence which her Agricultural College go• to show that
husband had got together to prove his as . cheap milk cannot be produced in.
innocence; but she knew that it was the stable in summer as can be procluc-
not ro. Her mother plainly expected ed on pasture. At Guelph we pastured
to find something more than mere 82 cows, which produced in fours
documents; and Elsa, thinking again months 81,650 lbs, of milk at a cost
of the story of the diamonds, dared of $;68.28 This figures out to a
'
not ask . tl
ze question which i r ose to
hex lips. But when she saw the production cost of 46 cents a cwt. of
milk and 11 cents a pound butter fat.
gleam of greed in her mother's eyes, In the stable we fed 15 mature cows.
her faith died; the faith in her father . They were better individuals than the
—for which she had fought, against cows on pasture. In the same four
evidence, against her own judgment, . months they produced 56,290 lbs, of
even against her awn love—was killed milk at a cost of $426,21, which figures
in the end by her mother. Rachel , out to 8(3 cents a cwt. of milk and 22
Carrington did not know that, Had cents a pound butter fat, or very
she known it, she would have laughed, ! nearly double the cost of milk pro -
perhaps even pitied, in a sneering duces on pasture.
scorn, a girl who could be such a cred- I One of the causes of high costing
Mous fool; but assuredly she would! milk in the summer may be too much
not have cared,
poor pasture. The natural grasses
As Elsa's boat thought them nearer : in Ontario do not produce pasture for
to the Ring -Rock, the girl's heart the cows for more than one-half of
sank. She had looked forward to ` the summer, and there is no part of
puttinhands,
that packet into her mother's the farm where manure and seed can
hands, in the belief that she would ,1 be more profitably expended than in
be taking the first step in the prom-! the production of an annual pasture
ised vindication; but she realized now crop. The seeding mixture that I i
in the last few hours that hope was would recommend for this purpose'
dead. i is one bushel of spring wheat, one i
grew more Carrington,
arrin eager on eon the once raf t esuser , bushel of oats, one bushel of barley I
and five to seven pounds of red clover. j
by a somewhat natural mental pro- ; One acre of this annual pasture will I
cess, more ready to discount as pos- I pr8duce more feed than three acres of
sible disappointment by blaming Elsa j natural grass pasture. An experi-
for what she had done, ment conducted at Guelph last sum -
"I tell you thatI don't expect that mer illustrates this fully. I
jar will be there,"she replied. "The : In one field we had 28 acres of ar- I
place has been like a dockyard for the ! able land, four acres in natural grass !
last week. Do you suppose that the `pasture, and four acres in rough land
people who refloated that schooner and woods. The mixture mention- ;
won't have explored every inch?" • (ed A 1
One
Ten-.
``spoon'
fol
of "SALADA" for every tzc'o cups—boiling
water—and five minutes' infusion will produce
a most delicious and invigorating beverage.
TEA
AT 35 HE HAS
HUGE FORTUNE
MARCELLUS HARTLEY DODGE 18
VERY RICH.
Was Left $30,000,000 and Made $60,-
B191 000,000 Himself in War
Munitions.
Mr. Marcellus Hartley Dodge, of
New York, is, at the age of 35, the
richest individual of his age in the
United States bo -day.
Out of the smoke of cannon and
rifle fire in Europe has comp most of
his immense fortune, now estimated
at $80,000,000. And, ;through the Eu..
ropean conflict, it is increasing daily
at the rate of thousands of dollars.
Marcellus Hartlley Dodge is a new
type of the American Croesus. He
never has speculated, and he never
has gone out to get what he was af-
ter. Wealth always has come to him,
seemingly without his bidding.
IIis grandfather, Marcellus Hart -
'•ley, owned a firearms and sporting
goods store on Broadway. He also
controlled the Remington Arms and
Ammunition Company and the Union
Metallic Cartridge Company. I•Ie had
two daughters. One of thorn became
Mrs. Jenkins and the other Mrs.
Dodge.
Hartley outlived Mrs. Dodge. Af-
ter her death he took a great interest
in her son. He had the boy with
him as much as possible. He trained
him carefully in business methods,
sent him through High school, and
then to Columbia University.
Inherited $20,000,000.
Just before he had finished his
studies at Columbia his grandfather
died. When the will was read he
found himself worth $20,000,000. Hart-
ley had left $40,000,000, and the other
half of it went to Mrs. Jenkins.
One of the first honors bestowed on
him—before he had reached his ma-
jority—was bis election as a director
of the Equitable Life Assurance So-
ciety. That was before he left the
university. When he was graduated
one of his friends said to him: "See
here, Marcellus, you've worked pretty
hard. Why don't you take a rest? A
nice trip to Europe would help a lot."
"Not for me," he replied. "I'm go-
ing to work, and I'm going to -day.
Good-bye, boys." And then he jump-
ed on a car and rode down to the
sporting goods store where his grand-
father had his office. That was the
beginning of his career.
For three years Marcellus Hartley
Dodge "kept his nose to the grind-
stone." Then, in his steam -yacht
Wakiva he went on an extensive cruise
in South American waters, including
a voyage of exploration up the Ama-
zon. w
That was his first vacation. And
yet it wasn't a real "young manrs
outing," for he took with him a party
of scientists who studied the flora
and fauna of the Amazon regions.
Married Miss Rockefeller.
In 1907—the year following the Am-
azon cruise—young Dodge married
Ethel' Geraldine Rockefeller, daughter
of William Rockefeller and niece of
John D. The match was a romance
pure and simple, and strangely enough
the grim god Mammon didn't figure
in it, although each of the young
people was worth millions.
Miss Rockefeller brought to her
husband fully $75,000,060. Yet he
would not bake one penny of it.
The young man's duties when as a
benedict he settled down to the rou-
tine of business life consisted in look-
ing after the Remington Arms te
Ammunition Company and the Union
Metallic Cartridge Company, those
plants having been left to the family
by his grandfather.
It was a steady "grind" for him
until August; 1914, when his great
opportunity came. The war in Europe
brought it. He secured a contract
from the British Government for $3,-
200,000 worth of ammunition.
Early in 1915, soon after the execu-
tion of this contract the alert Mr.
Dodge organized the Remington Arms
Company of Delaware for the pur-
pose of manufacturing military rifles,
as distinguished from the sports-
man's rifle turned out in the Bridge-
port (Connecticut) . factory of the
Remington Arms and Ammunition
Company.
. Big Order—No Plant.
That was a master stroke in busi-
ness. Tho first thing the new com-
pany did was to obtain a contract
from the allies for the manufacture
of 2,000,000 Lee -Enfield rifles. And
at that time it had ,no plant. But it
leased the Eddystone plant of the
Baldwin Locomotive Company and
equipped it for a large rifle produc-
tion.
1n October, 1915, the Midvale Steel
and Ordnance Company was incorpor-
ated for $100,000,000 in Delaware. At
its first meeting, held] in New York,
the new corporation acquired bhe Rem-
234 ington Arms Company of Delaware,
paying $20,000,000 in stock, or in
• other words, giving Mr. Dodge 400,000
- shares of New Midvale securities.
SEND FOR A TRIAL
PACKET
Mali us a postal saying
how much you now pay
for ordinary tea, and the
blend you prefer—Black,
Mixed or Green.
"SALADA," TORONTO.
14,
",.:�� u �ririn : •: ^�'3 £±kd: ter'
bushels; beets, 6 lbs.; cabbage, Ys lb.,
one ounce equals 2,000 plants, car-
rot, 4lbs.; cauliflower, ees lb.; celery,
ria lb.; cow peas, bushel; cucumber,
21bs.; kale, 41bs.; lettuce, 11b.,
equalling 1-8 ounce to 50 feet of row;
melon„ musk, 3lbs.; melon, water, 4
lbs,; millet, 1 to 3 pecks; onions, 5
lbs., equalling % ounce to 50 feet of
row; parsnips, 6 lbs.; potatoes, 8 to
12 bushels, equalling 25 tubers per
' 50 feet of row; pumpkins, 5 lbs.;
radish, 10 lbs.; spinach, 12 lbs., equal-
ling 1/s oz. to 50 feet; squash, 4 lbs.
to 6 lbs.; sweet potato, 1r/e to 4
bushels; tomato, i4 lb. or 33 plants in
i 50 feet; turnips, 11b, or r/a .ounce to
50 feet of row.
Oats and Bran for the Calf.
The beef -calf must be kept growing
j from the start. In the pure-bred
herds it generally sucks the cow from
the beginning. As time goes on it
is necessary to give some grain, pulp-
ed roots, silage and alfalfa or clover
hay. „ In looking over the beef herd
at the Ontario Agricultural College a
few days ago, we remarked that never
had we seen, at that Institution, a bet-
ter lot of calves, all in excellent con-
dition and apparently good doers. We
enquired as to what they were being
fed. Of course, they were sucking
the cows, but calves four, five and six
months old were getting, besides all
the good hay they would eat, about
three pounds per day of a mixture
composed of half rolled oats and half
bran. It looks as if this was a good
mixture of grain for the calf being
raised as these calves are, in fact it
is not a very bad grain mixture for
any calf.—Farmer's Advocate.
""I don't see why they should," said was sown on psi 30, with an ad -
a shock, had told her fires that he was Elsa, wearily. "They had their dition of two and one-half pounds
ill, and .had marvelled to see the an- work." !Canadian blue grass; two and one-
ill,
met with a shrug and a. E "Well, if they haven't, someone else i half pounds meadow fescue, these
•
probably has." 1 t
"Who ?" -
"I don't know who," Mrs.. Carring- !b
ton answered irritably. "But I do
know that your foolishness went the j.
very best way about to excite suspi- I,c
cion. You - couldn't help the Sea -
Horse being wrecked I daresay, but h
you might have avoided letting your -12
self be seen. Anyone with a grain of t
intelligence would know at once that e
sneer. When at length she did sum-
' mon up courage to say that he was
i dead, Mrs. Carrington had stared at
•
her for a moment and then had brok-
en into a hard laugh, saying:
"Why didn't you tell me that at
!first? Did you think I should faint,or
! scream, or cause a ecene in the cus-
s tom -house ? Do you think, child, that
• I care? I don't. He was a fool,"
i "He was my father," said Elsa.
"I don't see that that fact disproves
my assertion," Mrs. Carrington had
answered. "I expect you are a fool,
too."
"He was your husband."
"And thereby he made me the wife
I of a notorious criminal. Do you know
that my portrait, or what was said to
be my portrait, was published in the
I Police News ? Yes, he was my hus-
i band; du yrru think I have anything
to thank him for in that?"
Those few sentences struck the
key -note, and the motive never varied.
i The woman was selfish, callous, quer-
ulous; she thought herself ill-used
and was shameless in self -revelation, i
Elsa had never expected sympathy
from her, had looked forward with no
pleasure to the day of her mother''s
arrival in San Miguel; but she had'
looked for the news of a husband's
death being received with sorrow.I
Instead it was received with a whine, I
a sneer, a grumble. There was not
even the decency of pretence. The !
woman plainly did not care, and in
fthe hearing of her daughter at least,
did not think it worth while to seem
I to care
Was it the tragedy of two years ago
grasses being addled to provide pas-
ure for the next year. On June 8
vve turned into this field 14 mature
eef cows, six beef heifers one to two
years old, 17 dairy heifers one to two
and one-half years old, four dry dairy
ows and 32 milking dairy cows.
Altogether we pastured on the field 75
ead of cattle from June 8 to August
1, Then the 32 cows were taken off
o second growth clover, and on Sept-
niber 8th the 14 beef cows were re -
you had not gone there alone, on the!
day after your father's death, for no- i
Ithing. The obvious inference would is
be that you were hiding something.
j The jar won't be there,"
! c
! Elsa did not reply, but began to { h
make ready to lower her sail. The j s
1 entrance to the Ring -Rock was only l o
a hundred yeards away now. I r
Suddsnly Mrs. Carrington gave a 1 f
short cry, and pointed forward. i r
"Who is that ?"
A boat shot out from the opening in , .
the circle of the Ring-Rock—a small : t
i boat with one man in it.
y i
and the man i
"Keep yodr sail up, Elsa! We can t
catch him!" I
"Why should we try ?" asked Elsa. ' o
"Besides, I don't think we can." ! `
1 The man had stopped rowing, and a
was running. up a sail. I
i
d
There was not time during the rec-
on when that pasture could not have
ended more cattle. I will admit
that last season, with its extreme
umidity, was unusually favorable to
uch an experiment as this. The
my supplementary feeding was to
orne cows running in Record of Per-
ormance. In en ordinary season the
was rowing as though he were in al.
hurr
esults might not be so good, but in
any season they would more than
ustify this method of feeding. Na -
ural grass pasture require.> two acres
CAN GET VERDUN
FOR 300,000 MEN
THE PRICE GERMANY WILL
HAVE TO PAY.
When They Got the Town They Would
Find It An Empty
Victory.
If the Germans want the overrated
fortress of Verdun badly enough they
can take it by the middle of July at a
total cost of 300,000 men, says Amo
•rent or Dosch-Flemst, writing in the New
York World. .Then when they get it
they will find they have a hollow vic-
tory. The French will simply withdraw
to a much stronger position they al-
ready* have fortified on the west bank
of the Meuse.
Verdun has been in a precarious
position ever since the beginning of
the war, when the Germans in their
original rush against a half -ready
French army seized among other
places the strategical position on the
heights of the Meuse at St. Mihiel.
They swept around three sides of Ver -
there is room dun and could not be dislodged with-
Brea
•
it notee an
that
"This
Business MetI ods in Farming.
The present is an opportune time
or putting the live steels industry on
- • ' a more business -like basis, says E. S.
• i Archibald, B.A., B.S.A., Ottawa, in an
address. I do not think that any one
would deny that1 for
Movement is Assuming Large Propor-
tions in France. 1
The movement in favor of rnechan- 1
ical farming in France is assuming';
large proportions. Wherever trials
have been made with traction ploughs '
they have been conclusive, and co-op-
erative societies or farmers have been
formed to put them in use. A great
many have been delivered during the
past few months, and a great many
more have been ordered.
The General Agricultural Society
is making a census of different agri-
cultural regions to determine in what
localities it is possible to secure large
tracts of land, which the society will
undertake to plough in the autumn;
also to ascertain in what localities
sufficient acreage of harvest can be
combined to justify the sending of
traction harvesters. The machines
that the society sends for this work
it is intended to leave in the hands of
the farmers individually or organized
in co-operative societies. The pro-
spect for the development of this
kind of farming is such that it is pro
posed to organize a school for the
training of farm traction drivers. Thus
far all the machines, come from the
United States. French industry will
probably be unable to meet any con-
.siderable part of the deinand for a
few years to come.
1 h' 1'
Even on the best of our farms there French General Staff has never con -
is a constant waste. Our endeavor sidered worth while.
Precedence.
Ethel—Jack, papa asked me last
evening what your intentions were. •
Jack Impeeune---He didn't happen
to say anything about his fdivn, did
het
It isn't difficult to retain your.
friends if you do not put them to the
gold test
should be to plug the leaks. The
only secret of imlli'ovement in this
regard i': the application cf more bus-
iness -like methods. The present
time, when the demands upon our
farmers are so great, seemsto me
to be a very opportune one for im-
provement in farm management and
for introducing more efficient methods
into our.,$s,rm practice.
The fixed charges on a farm are the
same whether it is run at a profit or
a lose. The interest on the capital
invested in farm, buildings and equip
ment is a constant charge against the
business. These overhead or fixed
charges cannot be cut down, but their
relative amount can be very material-
ly lowered by increasing the volume
of businees and cutting down losses.
By --keeping better cows and feeding
them better, and by growing more
and better feedstuffs from the same
ground, the volume of the business
can be increased. Reasonable co-
operation in buying and selling and
in general community wo}r�k in breed-
ing Will greatly increase'the'iticome of
the individual farmer without increas-
,ing ,trio iw;verhead charged*ia,s to
meet. This increased income direct-
ly, ttenclea .therefore, , to .increase. the,
profits .On 'his blasness.:
Flory Much Seed Per Acre ?
Amount of seed to sow per acre is
as .follow-: Alfalfa, 16 to ..25 lbs.,
broadcast or drill; barley, eight - to
ten,.peeks; blue grass, 25 lbs.; beanie
rays 12 to 20 I s. buckwheat, h
graft, lbs4 b w eat, 1
bushel; cloyer, 16 lbs.;"cofn l0'•gtiarts;•
oats; 2 to 3 bushels;.orchtrd grass, 30
lbs.; peas, 2 bushels; .rod top, 10 Ibs.;
rye, 3 to 6 pecks; wheat, 6 -to 9
peeks; asparagus, 5 lbs.; beim», VA
Forts of Little Value.
Since that time the value of forts
as forts has greatly diminished. Ver-
dun by itself could have been blown
to pieces, but the new trench fortifi-
cations in front of it have protected
it from assault. The trench fortifi-
cations have done the real work,
and for months now Verdun, as a
fortress, has not been worth fighting
for.
The French people, whose morale
is one of the most important con-
siderations at this tense moment of
the war, are beginning to realize the
facts about Verdun, and if it falls
•
"Silver
Gloss"
Canada's fined
Laundr.:.
y
Starch
now tl3ey will not consider it a defeat.
If it had fallen after only two or three
weeks of assault, it would have
been a great victory for the Germans,
particularly on account of the moral
effect on France, but it would have
no moral effect now. The French peo-
ple know :how dearly the Germans
have paid for every trench.
Saving Soldiers.
If the German offensive continues
at Verdun until it is no longer worth
while holding, the French people will
be ready and anxious to give it up
before the army is ready. For it is
also an expensive business holding
Verdun and the French are becoming
chary of the lives of their, sons. So
far Verdun has cost the Germans be-
tween 140,000 and 150,000 men and
has cost the French about 90,000. The
French will nob continue to suffer in
that proportion from now on and will
not pay a total of more than .130,000
against the German 300,000.
The French, having already an eye
to the end of the war, hate to lose that
many sons, though they inflict a loss
more than twice as large on the Ger-
mans. Only the loss of German ef-
fectiveness at each assault makes it
worth while for the Frenc4~to stay.
Most of the French losses were right
at the beginning of the battle. They
were so great during the first week
that Gen. Joffre wanted to give it up,
but Gen. de Castelnau, Commander in
Chief of the armies in the field, beg-
ged permission to send up Gen. Petain
with his crack troops, the mobile army
of France.
A Million Shells a Day.
The Germans opened bheir offensive
against Verdun in February by drop-
ping a million shells a day into the
French trenches. It seemed like mad-
ness to try to hold out in a disadvant-
ageous position against them, and
Joffre, looking to the military advant-
age alone, wanted bo abandon the fort
and withdraw to the shorter, stronger
lines west of the Meuse. But Gen, de
Castelnau, having his ear to the
ground, and realizing the bad moral
effect, argued him out of it.
When the two Generals fought it
out in council at the very height of
the first attack, de Castelnau talked
for two hours straight before he won
his point, and raced to Verdun late ab
night to take command. The Ger-
mans at that time were coining stead-
ily on, the French falling back," on
orders, before them. So de Castel-
nau raced in a closed motor car, with
war maps on his knees, and the trench
commanders heard nothing more in-
spiriting over the telephone than a
curt command to hold.
Before de Castelnau was able to
organize his defence, the Germans,
marching- under the protection of a
deluge of shells, had already reached
Douamont. • They had the town and
ib seemed so certain they would have
the fort too that they announced the
fall of the fort a little too soon. For
it did not fall. Just at that time the
counter -offensive hit the German ad-
vance. Gen. Detain arrived with his
picked army of 450,000 men, the mo-
bile army, the best body of troops in
Europe.
Kept Out of Verdun.
First the Moroccan volunteers,
Frenchmen who had been serving
in Africa, were thrown against the
Germans. They are the most ad-
venturous of all the French troops
and they would have been insulted if
any other troops had been sent into
the danger before them. They caught
the full force of the German rush on
Douaumont, and their acts of heroism
under the annihilating shells would
have to be counted by the thousands.
They paid for Douaumont and so did
the divisions that followed, but they
prevented the Germans from sweep-
ing into Verdun.
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