The Delaware Register (Delaware, Okla.), Vol. 6, No. 28, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 23, 1917 Page: 3 of 8
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THE D EL A W A R E R E O I S T B R
The Great Romance
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Patrla Channlng
MILTON SILL8 aa Donald Parr'
WARNER OLAND aa Baron
Hurokl
DOROTHY GREEN aa Fanny
Adair
8YNOP8I8
Anticipating tho threatened Japanese-
Mexlcan invaalon of the Southwestern
States Patrla Channlng an American
Olrl of great wealth with the assistance
of her fiance Capt Donald Parr (late U
8 A) converts her vast border ranch-
lands Into what Is virtually an armed
camp Baron Hurokl commanding the al-
lied Japanese-Mexlcan forces learns of
Patrla’s preparations and thinking to nip
them In the bud orders hla troops to at-
tack In force
FIFTEENTH EPISODE
The Sting of Victory
DARK HOUR8
It was shortly after sunrise when the
first shots signaled the attempt of
Pfitrla Channlng’s little handful of pa-
triotic adventurers to- stem the Inva-
sion of American soil by the allied
force of Mexicans and Japanese com-
manded by Baron Hurokl
Patrla’s first move then was to dis-
patch telegrams to the nearest post of
the United States army aa well as to
Washington giving notice of the Inva-
sion and asking for help
Within an hour Japanese field bat-
teries shelling with shrapnel the ad-
vanced trenches which commanded the
International boundary line had ren-
dered them untenable and Japanese
Infantry had swarmed over them In
pursuit of the retreating defenders
At the same time Baron Hurokl and
tils staff taking possession of Patrla’s
hacienda bad converted it Into field
headquarters From Its patio Hurokl
-directed the efforts of his troops to
overcome the resistance of the de-
fenders The latter had meanwhile occupied
their main Intrenchments a far strong--er
position furrowing the ridge of a
range of low hills lying back of the
hacienda and something slightly less
than a mile north of the borderline
Here they took root stubbornly De-
spite the disparity between their num-
bers and those of the Invaders they
threw back charge after charge of
Japanese and Mexican Infantry with-
ering and blasting them with the ma-chine-gun
fire which sprayed the ter-
rain with death as a garden hose
sprays a lawn with life while their
batteries cunningly secreted back of
the hills and directed In masterly fash-
ion kept the guns of the Invaders too
busily on the move to permit their do-
ing much damage to the trenches
But If the defenders fought with un-
shakable determination and fearleaa-
ness they fought with despair In their
hearts For their commanding eleva-
tion permitted them to overlook all
the land between them and the bound-
ary and they could hardly help being
appalled by the flood of allied troops
which was sweeping across the bor-
der and arraying against them
Again urgent prayers for aid were
dispatched to the authorities
As before they gained no acknowl-
edgment of any Bort
Falling to take the main line
trenches by assault Hurokl ordered
his forces to fall back and dig them-
Donald Was Wounded
selves Id — which they did with trained
expedition and efficiency throwing up
a line of Intrenchmenta roughly par
allellng those on the hlllcrest
And their batteries presently finding
shelter rained shells upon the Amerl--cans
to keep down their fire until Pa-
trla’a guns again searched them out!
when the battle passed Into a tempo-
rary phase of big gun dueling and the
Infantry bad a little time to breathe
-and take account of Its losses
These last proved astonishingly
slight but none the less terrible In Pa
triu’a understanding Already the field
hospital accommodations which she
thud provided were overcrowdod and
hi hi ii if at surgeons with their as
sistants and nurses overworked And
the day was still young
Donald Parr attempted to comfort
her with the asaurance that their po-'
sltlons were so strong they could hold
out another 24 hours If required
—by which time help must surely
have come to them from the regular
army and the National Guard which
had been mobilized for border duty
Against this argument there re-
mained the unquestionable fact that
repeated telegrams evoked no re-
sponse from any quarter
And re-enforcements at any time
would arrive toq late to prevent hide-
ous mortality In the ranks of the de-
fenders Toward mld-mornlng a second series
of most violent assaults was launched
against the maln-Une trenches and
though each In turn was thrown back
severely punished each took Its toll of
American lives and by so much lessen-
ed the ability to present Impregnable
resistance
But by noon Hurokl seems to
have made up his mind that further ef-
forts to take the trenches by storm
were futile There fell a lull In the
fury of tlie combat between the In-
fantry forces while a flanking move-
ment on the part of the Mexican cav-
alry was met and confronted by a
cloud of rough-rldlng plainsmen un-
der the leadership of Rodman Pllla-
bury Then again the artillery duel was
resumed but there was In this some-
thing strangely perfunctory as far
at least as the work of the allied gun-
ners were concerned The suspicion
was warranted and by subsequent
events was borne out that Hurokl was
sparring for time
' He was awaiting the arrival of heav-
ier artillery whatever those circum-
stances were which delayed Its com-
ing with effective range till dusk of
evening they - alone saved Patria’s
forces from annihilation — though much
credit Is due to the scouts of Patria’s
flying corps for the willingness and skill
with which they engaged the Japanese
aviators and drove them from the
sky above the American positions pre-
venting their locating the hidden bat-
teries The last traces of light were dying
from the sky when Hurokl’s heaviest
metal came into action
Simultaneously new and extraor-
dinarily vicious assaults were made
upon the trenches
And still no word from Washing-
ton or from any other quarter to
which appeals had been telegraphed 1
It was not till midnight that a
scouting party dispatched by Donald
Parr brought In an explanation of this
ostensible Indifference on the part of
the authorities to the fate of Patria’s
devoted little band
Then It appeared that the wires had
been cut by Japanese spies who had
received — and suppressed — all mes-
sages dispatched by Patrla’s field head-
quarters In such manner as complete-
ly to deceive her telegraph operators
In short It transpired that not one
of those many frantic cries for help
had been heard but by enemy ears
Throughout a night of hopeless hor-
ror the battle raged From the mo-
ment when Hurokl’s great guns en-
tered Into the contest there was scarce-
ly a single perceptible break In the
succession of assaults upon the
trenches till dawn broke upon their
desperately thinned ranks
And with the dawn came the final
effort a charge In force that taxed to
the utmost the courage resource and
Ingenuity of the Americans That
It broke and was swept back can be
counted as nothing short of miracu-
lous As It did so Donald Parr fell his
shoulder shattered by shrapnel
When be recovered consciousness
In her arms and she knew that his
hurt was not mortal Patrla took' Into
her own hands tho command which
she had resigned to hls Conferring
by telephone In person with her staff
she ordered the effort of the last re-
sort the forlorn hope which bad been
reserved for that moment when the
day seemed lost and sacrifice of self
alone might stem the tide of' defeat
All defensive tactics were abandoned
The men were ordered from the
trenches to advance to charge and
keep on charging till the last man fell
To give them heart a fleet of “tanks”—
armored caterpillar tractors carrying
machine-gun crews— were loosed upon
the enemy
Looming throngh the gray formless
light of the new-born day like mon-
strous armadlUoes vomiting fire and
death they crossed their own trenches
and met find broke a charge of Japa-
nese and Mexican Infantry scattering
It like chaff
As the enemy turned and fled these
terrors the Americans forsook the
shelter of their trenches and pursued
At the same time masked batteries
came out of hiding and moved forward
to closer positions In the open
A daring raid of cavalry captured a
42-centlmeter howitzer and turned It
upon Its own people
Where the taDk were not there was
hand-to-hand fighting characterised by
the grlmest determination on both
aides But wherever the tanks
moved — and nothing served to swerve
one of these from whatever course It
chose to take— the ranks of the enemy
melted Into disorderly rabble of panic-
stricken fugitive
A shell from the howitzer found the
Channlng hacienda and laid It In
flaming smoking ruins about the ear
of Hurokl and hls staff
Thirty minutes after the tanks had
Inaugurated the offensive the inva-
sion had been turned Into a rout The
roads beyond the border were choked
with fugitives Hurokl and hls per-
sonal aides forced their armored motor-
car through' the milling mob upon the
bridge at the border and regained
Mexican soli a bare minute before an-
other howitzer sjeH destroyed the
bridge utterly and with It hundreds of
fleeing Mexicans and Japanese
The last action of the battle was an
engagement between American rough
riders and Mexican cavalry In which
the latter attempting to cover the rear
of the defeated army were vanquished
dissipated sent scurrying Into the
south in disorder as great as that of
their comrades and allies whom they
had sought to save
But In this engagement Bodman
Plllsbury fell killed Instantly In ac-
tion Ordering her batteries up to the
boundary line Patrla Instructed them
to shell the fugitives mercilessly Fur-
ther than this line she would not per-
mit them to move Nor would she per-
mit one of her decimated little army
to carry the war Into Mexico
In defending her own property
against aggression she had acted with-
in her rights as a private citizen If
reprisals were to be visited upon the
aggressors that was the prerogative
of the government of her country — not
her prerogative
Thus the invading army of Baron
Hurokl and bis dupes and allies melt-
ed away Into those sun-baked plain
and arid hills of Mexico and was no
more — like the army of dream
SAMURAI
In the heat of that breathless after-
noon the armored motorcar a grim
gray unit of mechanism rendered only
the more grim and gray by It heavy
coating of dust and the evidences of
bard usage it wore lnnged heav-
ily around the wide curves of the
military road penetrating the secret
heart of those Mexican mountains de-
bouched on a downgrade with the
The Caterpillar
swiftness of an angel of death Into
the great valley devoted to the allied
encampment and drew up sharply as
If checked by some Invisible but Im-
movable barrier before the adobe
building dedicated to the uses of the
commander la chief and hla staff
Half a dozen men worn haggard si-
lent In uniforms stiff with sweat and
dust alighted from the car and weari-
ly threw themselves rather than
walked up the steps to the veranda
In front of the headquarters building
Deepest dlsconsolatlon was the key-
note of their common demeanor
In the lines that furrowed their dust-
masked faces In ' those red-rimmed
eyes which stared out of them despair
was written plainly — the despair of
gamblers who have staked all on a
single throw and have lost
Foremost In their number was Baron
Hurokl that arch-conspirator that
gambler Incurable— a presence of com-
manding distinction even In the shad-
ow of defeat disgrace and death
At hls heels moved hls shadow that
one whose devotion and loyalty to hls
master passed even that devotion and
loyalty which was the due of hls em-
peror — Hurokl’s aid de camp of today
hls body servant of yesterday hls fa-
miliar spirit of all days that Japanese
who answered to the name of Kato
‘ Their four companions were officers
of high rank subordinate only to the
commander In chief of the army which
Japan had thrown Into Mexico to co-
operate with the native troops In that
"great drive" designed to split the
United States asunder by Invading the
Mississippi valley via the Southwest-
ern states leaving the Pacific slope de-
fenseless against Invasion by way of
Lower California and the sea
As Hurokl moved toward the door of
the adobe building a Japanese orderly
came out paused saluted stiffly with
a countenance expressionless and
proffered a folded paper
Hurokl recognized the form on
which Incoming telegraphic dispatches
were transcribed He could have
hazarded a shrewd guess at the na-
ture of this communication — If put
to It could have foretold ' It almost
word for word
None the less be extended a steady
hand to accept It unfolded the paper
read It without permitting the slight-
est phase of hls emotions to be re-
flected la hls face and deliberately re-
folded It
At pause before the doorway he
rounded smartly on Ma hel and coin
manded the wandering Interest of hls
fagged staff with a single glance hla
pose gestureless With a single Im-
pulse they stiffened to attention
After a moment he addressed them
in a level and toneless voice with
the manner of one Imparting Informa-
tion concerning a person of particular
unimportance
"Gentlemen” said Baron Hurokl “It
becomes my duty to Impart to yon cer-
tain advices I have here a message
from hls majesty the emperor”
He paused to make obeisance to the
effigy symbolized by that name
"I need hardly remind you that up-
on the untimely death day before yes-
terday of the late commander In chief
Count Nogl L acting on authority
vested in me by hls- Imperial majesty
assumed the functions of commander
In chief and In my supreme discretion
initiated that Invasion of the United
States which was the ultimate pur-
pose of our presence In Mexico For
this action I assumed professed and
accept full responsibility
“That my action was Ill-advised Is
beside the point 1 alone was and am
liable for Its consequences The onus
of failure rests upon a single head
my own
“By my lack of sound Judgment my
haste and rashness I have brought
down defeat upon our forces I have
needlessly sacrificed unnumbered fel-
low servants of hls majesty the em-
peror I have wrought confusion with
hls Imperial designs I huve set at
naught hls ends
“So be It I explain without attempt
to extenuate the consequences of my
madness I accept without protest
the penalty of failure
“The command of our scattered and
shattered forces I resign to your
capable bands You are Instructed
to reorganize them as quickly as
possible and withdraw from this
part of Mexico marching westwards
to effect a junction with the army en-
camped at Magdalena Bay This you
will do not only with all possible ex-
pedition but with all feasible secrecy
“I have one request to make of your
pity If It be within your power I
would like my dishonored body to be
conveyed to Nippon for burial
“Gentlemen I go to Join my fore-
fathers In full confidence that the
honorable fashion of my death will
secure for me the freedom of their
company”
Hurokl ceased to speak drew him-
self up and saluted hls staff That
Tank Wine the Day
salute returned he executed an about-
face and strode Into the adobe build-
ing After him went Kato
For an hour he sat In the office of
the commander In chief industriously
methodically putting In order all his
affairs official as well aa personal
When there was no more to do he
rose without hesitation and strode in-
to the adjoining room which had been
hls sleeping quarters
Here Kato was awaiting him — Kato
translated from the trim and soldierly
aide In the field uniform of the Japa-
nese army Into a figure that might
have been conjured from some Japa-
nese print a servile fawning obse-
quious figure In the robes of hls race
and humble caste
Upon the plain canvas cot which
had been Hurokl’s bed were laid out
the magnificently embroidered robes
of a Samurai
Beside the cot stood the steel trunk
which had contained these robes and
which for many years had formed an
essential adjunct to Hurokl’s travel-
ing gear ’
Assisted deftly by Kato Baron Hu
rokl divested himself of bis soldier’s
clothing bathed and dressed In the
robes of hls nobility
Throughout neither uttered a single
word
And In silence Hurokl turned and
entered the room beyond living hls
footwear at the threshold
The door closed behind him On Its
other side Kato the Imperturbable
knelt and ground hla forehead Into
the dust of the floor
In one stride Baron Hurokl had
passed from Mexico to Nippon Paper
screens masked the earthen walla and
the thatched roof of the room The
floor was covered with a clean white
cloth In the middle of It rested
small rug of glowing sanguinary scar-
let At the edge of this small rug
was a low stand on which rested a
Jeweled dagger In a Jeweled aheath
Kneeling on the rug Baron Hurokl
swiftly denuded hls body to the waist
Then taking up the dagger and draw-
ing It from Its sheath he tested Its
edge and point upon the thumbnail
Satisfied he held the dagger be-
fore him on hls two hands outstretch-
ed open palms uppermost and In this
posture remained motionless for many
minutes hls grave Intelligent eyes
fixed in meditation upon a point or
acene or memory thousands of miles
removaA beyond tN narrow confine
of that little room In the adobe build-
ing In the mountains of Mexico
There was neither hesitation nor
mutiny In hls temper but only repin-
ing tbat hls efforts In the service of
hls emperor had been so Ul-fated
He would have been glad of a long-
er life If that permitted him to repair
the errors of which he had been guilty
But he had had hla chance and bad
failed
What must be must
With a sudden swift turn of hls
hand this unhappy gentleman of Ja-
pan reversed the point of the dagger
and drove It In toward hls diaphragm
THE COST
When Patrla appeared In the door-
way the nurse rose and with a friend-
ly and reassuring smile slipped out of
the room
Donald Parr lay moveless on hla
cot asleep The girl sat down on the
chair by hie side and gently dropped
her hand upon one of hls that lay
outside the sheet a dark strong hand
that seemed in- her sight to dwarf
and render altogether puny and In-
significant the slender white grace of
her own
Still Donald did not stir She was
content with that Sleep was what
he needed the best of all medicines
for bis hurts She asked for herself
no more than this that she be per-
mitted to rest a little by hls side to
touch hls hand to know that though
hls wounds were grievous he would
live and la a day to come be whole
and sound once more — and hers '
She was very weary The need to
rest oppressed her like a heavy har-
den Yet she did not dream of clos-
ing her eyes In sleep She had too
much to think about the victory of
the day to contemplate Its cost to
reckon ' Her brain seemed to burn
with thoughts doubts fears regrets
memories the screen of Its vision re-
flected In endless succession flashing
scenes from the splendid awful
pageant of that day and night of
fighting
It was three o'clock In the after-
noon The last shot at the routed and
fleeing armies of Invasion had been
fired hours ago The last fugitive had
long since disappeared The last
stricken horse had been killed the last
wounded man had been found and
cared for the last dead man buried
Remained only the stricken field
bloodied and defiled and trampled and
furrowed almost beyond recognition
the consciousness that the day was
won the Invader disastrously defeat-
ed the country saved In spite of it-
self the bitterness of victory
Sitting there in that close little room
that reeked of Iodoform with her
hands touching the hand of her be-
loved the girl abandoned herself to
reverie her dark eyes fathoming Im-
measurable depths of thought '
Unconsciously she began to con the
toll of victory: Donald wounded nigh
unto death Rodman Plllsbury and
Bud Morgan dead — and these but the
beginning names tbat headed the hun-
dreds upon the lists of casualties
merely because they were most Inti-
mate to Patrla the hacienda wrecked
beyond repair the fair countryside
that surrounded It turned into a stink-
ing shambles a great treasure expend-
ed In ammunition and the business of
war
And all to what end?
She foresaw quite clearly what
Touchy People
Beware of touchy people I There
are always some about ready to pester
you In some way Hurry on past so
you cannot hear them and above all
refuse to deny what they say Just
keep sweet and go ahead aqd let their
unkind words swelter In the gloaming
How much time and patience are wast-
ed on touchy people And yet such
people think they are the salt of the
earth and everybody else dirty water
It Is a real wickedness to be touchy
It Is as bad as lying and cheating
It does the world as much harm It
spoils more religion than swearing If
you find a touchy person In your
church turn him out as soon as pos-
sible If not he will Infect the whole
brotherhood and sisterhood with hls
sin We knew a touchy person one
time whose touchiness struck In on
him and he died We hope all our gen-
tle readers will escape so sorry a fate
—Ohio State Journal
The Kind of Floor He Wanted
“Would you like the floors In mosa-
ic?” asked the architect
The Springfield man looked dubious
"Would you like the floor In mosaic
patterns?”
“I don't know so much about that”
he finally said “I ain’t got any preju-
dice about Moses as a man and maybe
he knew a lot about the law Aa re-
gards laying floors though I kinder
think I’d rather have them unaectar-
lun” — Harper’s Weekly
Ambition
“Pa what is ambition?”
“Ambition my boy la that spirit
which prompts a young man to work
hard so that he can some day stop
working bard”
Natural Process
“What do you think of having a
woman on the floor In congress?"
"Why naturally I regard It as a
sweeping change"
A Strategic Retreat
"John what Is a proletariat?”
"Mary my dear I am astonished
you should ask me such a question and
before the children too 1”
Increase In Friend
"I thought a five passenger car
would easily hold all my friends"
“Well?"
"Until I got a five passenyej car"
worltii happen within tne next few
days and weeks the storm of popular
Indignation the massing of troopaj
along the border the lnterexchangej
of diplomatic amenities Japan’s stu-J
dlously polite dlaavowal of Hurokli
end all hla alleged works Mexico’s
disavowal of the part its troops hadj
played In the' conspiracy tnd the at-
tempted Invasion the administra-
tion's grudging acceptance of both
demands for measures of "prepared-
ness” voiced In congress the shrill
Hurokl Prepares to Die
clamor of the pacifists contending at
once that to prepare to reslat agree-
elon was to Invite agression and that
the defeated Invasion had been mere-
ly a minor skirmish between cow-
punchers and Mexican raiders an af
fair exaggerated beyond reason thai
simmering down of popular interests
the return of the common apathy tho
renewed reign of lethargic Indiffer-
ence to the need for "preparedness I"
And so she began to understand
that the victory of that day was bat
a barren one that she had fonght end
endured and sacrificed lives and hap-
piness and treasure to no end what-
ever but only to be a beginning that
the battle the battle of her country
the battle of common sense patriot-
ism was merely beginning that ho
who would save hls country In splto
of Itself undertakes a labor as unend-
ing as It Is thankless
Nevertheless to this plough she had
set her hands and there conld be no
turning back -
She must fight on and on and on
shoulder to Donald’s shoulder hie
hand In hers
Bending forward Patrla tenderly set
her Ups to the lips of Donald Parr
dedicating anew her life and hls that
was hers to do with as she willed tol
the service of their country that it
might be saved
(THE END)
At the Wedding Feast
la some parts of the country it la
the custom to send congratulatory tele-
grams to friends at a distance who are
being married That is the message
la timed to arrive Just after the cere-
mony and during the feast which us-
ually follows
Now a certain man a large farmer
was about to be married and shortly
before the time he beard that one of
hls cattle bad atfayed It being a
valuable animal be told hls bailiff to
let him know at once when It was
found The bailiff being ao econom-
ical man combined the two affaire
and the happy bridegroom received the
following message Just as they all sat
down to dinner:
“Congratulations The beast is
caught 1”
It Is fair to conclude that the tele-
gram afforded at least aa much grati-
fication to the assembled guests as to
the actual recipient himself— Tlt-Blta
Proverbs
Proverbs have not always been an
unmixed benefit to the world There
are several very mean and malignant
proverbs embodying the wit of one
man and the 111-nature not the wis-
dom of many men One of the wont
of these proverbs la “There Is no
smoke without fire” — a proverb which
has lent Its aid to thousands of gross
calumnies Perhaps we might ven-
ture to adopt a counteracting proverb
which has at least as much truth
physically and metaphysically as the
foregoing one It is: “The less fire
the greater the smoke’’— Sir Arthur
Helps
Correctly Defined
The women were discussing’ their
marital troubles when one asked: "By
the way what la your husband doing
now?”
“Oh” said the other “he's a-settln
'round tellln’ what's gnln’ to happen
next election”
“Then he’ a prophet?”
"No he ain't So far as this family
Is concerned he’s a dead loss"
Resented Insult
The Judge— Yon aay that through-
out this affair you acted like a per-
fect lady?
Mrs Casey— Sure your honor when
he tips hla hat to me an’ me not
knowln' him I ups with a rock as
caveq(n hls face — Puck
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