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"Yes, but for you the losses on both sides would have been greater hundreds of thousands greater," concluded the vice-chief. "And to-night I think you helped me to see right; you struck a light in my mind when I was about to forget the law of service." "You see, then, you did hasten the end, Marta," said Lanstron. "Yes, I do see, Lanny!" she whispered.
A swing door opened softly and his executive clerk reappeared with a soft tread, unheard by Westerling engaged in mechanically blackening the tens. The clerk, pausing as he waited for a signal of recognition, observed the process wonderingly. To be absently making figures on a pad was not characteristic of the vice-chief of staff.
"You are appointed actual chief of staff and a field-marshal!" said the vice-chief to Lanstron. "The premier says that every honor the nation can bestow is yours. The capital is mad. The crowds are crying: 'On to the Gray capital! To-morrow is to be a public holiday and they are calling it Lanstron Day.
Hume vice-chief, with full power, in his absence, over life and property in the valley; for, said he, "I go upon the trail myself, and who should have authority when I am gone but you, my friend?" The headmen expressed themselves delighted. "But," said the Hunter, troubled by this upset of his theory that Muata would think only of himself, "our boat has been taken."
Tell them to hold!" fruitlessly, like adjurations to the wind to cease blowing. The bell of the long distance kept ringing unheeded, until at last his aide came to say that the premier must speak either to him or to the vice-chief. Westerling staggered to his feet and with lurching steps went into the closet. There he sank down on the chair in a heap, staring at the telephone mouthpiece.
Hume talked, while they ate, about the ceremony of his initiation as vice-chief and of the long, wordy arguments he had listened to in a case at law concerning the ownership of a monkey, to which there were two claimants, the boy who had caught it, and the man who owned the garden where it had been caught. "Now," he said, when they had eaten, "you have something to tell me. Go ahead."
It seemed to them that the chief of staff, the head of the machine, who had left the room had returned an individual. "The connection was broken while we were speaking!" he said blankly. "That means it must have been cut by the enemy that the enemy knows of its existence!" "Perhaps not. Perhaps an accident a chance shot," said the vice-chief. "No, I'm sure not," Lanstron replied.
The man whose name was the symbol of victory to the soldiers, who would be more than ever a hero as the news of his charge with the African Braves travelled along the lines, would go on record to his soldiers as saying that they could not take the Gray range. This was a handicap that the vice-chief did not care to accept; and he knew how to turn a phrase as well as to make a soldierly decision.
Even the minute of the attack they knew; and just before midnight they were standing at the window looking out into the night, while the vice-chief held his watch in hand. In the hush the faint sound of a dirigible's propeller high up in the heavens, muffled by the fog, was drowned by the Gray guns opening fire.
"We were all just as able and loyal yesterday as to-day when we find ourselves heroic. We owe our victory to Partow's plans, to the staff's industry, the spirit of the people and the army, and " He threw a happy smile toward Marta. "Perhaps it ought to be Galland Day rather than Lanstron Day," remarked the vice-chief.
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