The Carolina Spartan. [volume] (Spartanburg, S.C.) 1852-1896, 1856-09-04


his willy interlocutor was fully prepared,
and she put into the conclusion of her sen.
tence an accent that soon reassured him.
She knew now that he loved another; she
had regulated her own feelings, or at least,
the expression of them, accordingly; and
he might look upon her now rs a friend.
she was noble woman, after all!
"You will not be offended" she said, in
the same kindly smiling manner, "if ask
you 10 accept slight token of the friend
ship feel for you. Many of your other
friends will offer you marriage-gifts. You
will not, trust, deny me similar privi-
lege."
AS she spoke, she drew the ring from
her finger, and between her words, glided
it on his. She knew that, once there, she
need not fear his removing it.
He took the hand that performed the
act, and covered it with passionate kisses.
Poor little Genevieve's sweet face bears
far different aspect to the sunny one it pre-
sented that happy evening when with Gas.
ton by her side she and her father strolled
out together
Now she rarely sees him, and though his
manner is always kind, it is ever constrain.
ed and uneasy. Sometimes he betrays a
restless impotence; sometimes sort of
plying regard; and he seems at Al, times
i'll at ease and dissatisfied.
AT first she used 10 question him tender.
ly; but now he has learned that this, SO far
from leading TO solution Of the mystery, =,
only adds to the uneasy symptoms. At
times she is jealous, offended, angry; but
then her father blames him, and her wo-
mans nature rises up to defend and justify
him.
All this Madame de Naucrasson learns:
and her cruel nature takes 4 savage delight
in the sufferings Of the unoffendng gili.
Meanwhile, Gaston's stormy love for the
relentless woman secures daily deeper
hold on him; changing his whole nature
making him who was gentle, cheerful and
loving, impatient, irritable, jealous at times
almost brutal. Occasionally, this fierce
passion takes the aspect of hate; he treats
her with tyranny and scorn; he has n
thousand caprices; n thousand exigencies,
and fierce dis lutes, embittering all their iu-
tercourse, rise between them.
At last the marquise remembers the
promise the magician extracted from her.
that last day when they parted. She had
never performed il. Perhaps TO this act of
disobedience on her par, may, in some dc
gree, be attributable the unhappincss tue
realization of her desires has brought her.
She will lose no time in attempting TO
avert his displcasure; and not later than
tomorrow she will 90 TO the l;uc des Tru.
ands, and lay her difficulties before him.
That night Castor came to spend the
evening with her. The evening passed
quietly. Castor was more like his former
self than she had seen him since the con-
mencement Of their attachment; and she
rejoiccd in the idea that had presented itself
10 her. At last the hour for his departure
approached
"llow long tits" he said, "since we have
had day altogether to ourselves, Let u,
20 to morrow into the country, and spend
it there"
MOT tomorrow, CASTOR. have en-.
gagoments in town; but the day after
any other day"
Il will not have another day! Engage
mcnts. When | command, what other en-.
| gagements standt'
Command This to me! You forge;
yourself strangely, mousicur."
Long and loud was the dispute; fierce
and cruel were the insults banded between
them; and with far more of hate and ven.
geance, than Of love in their hearts, they
| parted.
At sunset, the Marquisc dc Vaucrasson
disguised As Of old. stole forth from the
wicket by which the garden Of her hote
opened oa quiet street, and after looking
cautiously round turued her step III the di.
rection Of the Rue des Truands.
Hardly had she turned The first corner
when the little door she had locked behind
her opened again, and man with cloak
and slouchcd hat and dropping feather
/ stepped forth, and proceeded in the direction
she had taken, following her without even
| approaching her closely, until she arrived
at the enhance of the Rue dcs Truands.
Here, the darkness rendering the Ii,k o
losing sight Of her greater he yentured
| somewhat TO diminish the distance thai
separated them, and kept her in view unit
/ the door at which she knocked opened and
closed upon her.
/
dark archway, leading no one could from
the street at tins hour distinguish whittier
Beneath lis shade Castor placed himself
and remained in observation, quite uncon
scious that while all his attention was rivet
cd upon the opposite side Of the street, h,
was himself the object Of no less rigid sur
veilIance on the part oftwo men of peculiar
, ly evil aspect behind him.
Suddenly ho was made acquainted with
the fact 10y being seized from the back
. pnioncd, gagged, and carried on-it wa
quite impossible to say whittier, for hi
cloak was wrapped around his head so a
TO exclude every other object from hi
sight.
After some minutes, lie found himscl
placed on his feet, and his head release,
from It's covering, though his arms still re
manned bound. Looking round he foun,
/ himself i'm q lpp rnnu, surr,uu, lol lac tlg,