Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1854-07-06

to some passing thunderstorm 10 mitigate
the overpowering heat. A. last one of the
mos. terrible storms that had passed over
the valley for some time burst forth. The
rain came down in torrents, the narrow
mountain paths were washed away, the
caves were swollen to nearly twice their
ordinary volume, and much cattle end sew
eral oranges were swept away. The thun-
der leapt down from the rocks, waking The
echoes with ffighi(uI noise, and to this
was added a terrific gale, which long lel.
traces Of its fury.
10 the midst Of this hurricane, o traveller
arrived in The village in which jules moth.
Ter dwelt. Their cottage as you have seen,
is the first, as you enter the village. The
traveller, without hesitation, walked in
drenched to The skin; but, before a good
fire, soon dried his clothes and regained his
cbeerfulness. Julie and her mother hap
,pened to have gone to see sick neighbor
that day, and were not in the house when
he entered Before the fire The child was
lumblng and playi about; it soon left it's
own sports 10 make friends with him. 1t
was quickly seated on his knee, and began
caressIng him. 1t bore strong resemblance
TO him, and he seemed no less struck by it
himself, than jules brother and sister
were. The storm gave place to one OF those
drlzzling showers of these mountains, which
seem endless. jules brother proposed to
the traveller to stay the night, offering to
show him a short cut over the mountains
to The Baths, in the morning. The propo-
sl'ion was gladly accepted; and he amused
himself by playing with the child, who
seemed to have taken strange likeing to
him.
Towards evening Julie returned, without
her mother, who had stopped to tend her
suffering friend ,hroughou, the night. Her
first look was for her child, who was still
on the strangers knee. She stepped for
ward to take it from him, when, by the
blaze Of The fire, she a. once recognized its
fa'her. A slight scream, which she in
s,anlly suppressed, sau,ed him he turned
and exclaimed, ''Julien ~ He did not re-
strain himself from clasping her in his
sl,ss,s but there was warning in her face,
and he mace no other sIgh.- --''7 50 -
Her brother had heard the scream, and
seen the emotion which she Intellectually
endeavored to suppress. He had heard her
name in the strangers mouth and now
the extraordinary likeness between the
stranger and the child were explained 10
him.
To Julie he had always been the kind
est Of brothers; when she fell, she had heard
no reproaches from him; TO the child he
had uniformly been afectionate and good.
lie pretended not 10 have noticed the meet
ing between his sister and the stranger but
Julie, who knew her brother to be quick
sighted, watched him steadily, without let
ting him perceive il, during the evening"
She saw The sparkle Of some gra.ified wish
in his eye, the flush on his cheek, his close
set teeth, and his clenched hands and she
knew lha. his Basque blood was up
that he had penetrated her secret, and was
determined on revenge. After thew had all
retired for The night, she stole up TO Charles's
room, and implored him to dress immedi-
a,ely, and pursue his rout to Pau, or any
place but that where he had told her broth
er he was going. He q, once arose, and
was lie, ou. by Julie without noise, after
having embraced and entrealed her to fol-
low him with her child to Pau. To thif
she assented She pointed out the road,
and gave herself up to violent grief.
The hope of speedy vengeance had rem
dered her brother sleepIesss; he heard her
rouse the stranger he at once go. up, and
shortly after, be saw the man who had ru-
med his sister leave the house. He sprang
into a tree which grew close TO his win
dow, and let himself down. The man had
ceased, and was succeeded by fine bri ghl
night. The rays Of the moon penetrated
into the gorge. in spite of the height of the
mountains.
"You have forgotten some,hug," ssid
jules brother, as Charles now perceived
him to be "you have forgotten something.
in your flight, sir"
"You mistake, nv friend," said Charles,
81 have forgotten nothing"
eyes, you have forgotten the poor girl
whom you seduced; you have forgotten that
her honor is my honor, and her vengeance
my vengeance" sald the infuriated young
man, drawing his knife. Without saying an
other word, he made violent .hrus, a! the
object Of his haired. The Englshman,
whatever his defects might be, did not
want courage. With blow of his stick he
struck the knife, which went flying over
the pecipice bordering the road, out of his
adversary's hand. With a loud shout, the
Basque rushed 10 close quarters, but was
me. by heavy blow of the fist between
his eyes, which sent him staggering against
the rocks. |. was only for moment: re-
gardless Of second blow, he succeeded
in closing with his adversary, and, by the
suddenness Of HE acl, brough. him 10 the
ground. In natural strength they were e.
qually matched; bu. the blow between the
ey es had given your counIryman some hat
The advantage, and, as they struggled, jules