Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1859-08-18

than at her fathers funeral and some others
OF the more observing sort noticed that Jules
Delpech, present with his son Paul was again
recognized by Madame de Vautpre's grand
niece, as she left the church but this time
with start, Shudder, crimson sutfuSion of
face and neck, rendered more striking by the
instantly recurring paleness What might
that mean coupled with the flashing looks in
terchanged between the father and son? A
question that which Adrenne Beaudesert her.
self could not have answered, had she chosen
to do so, except by saying, that since the death
of Madame de Vautpre, Immediately after
drinking the chocolate in which poudre rose
had been mixed the idea of the men who had
provided her with the unholy drug-it was
Paul Depech who wasin waiting for her with
the sealed packet at the second interview,
Mademoiselle Beaudesert being accompanied
| by Llsette Meudon-had been associated in
! her mind with images of death aud sin =
Lisette Meudon could have given a more plau-
sible solution of the seeming mystery-name-
! ly, the conflict in madenoselleS mind of pride
and high station, with the suggestions of a
romantic attachment to handsome Paul Del
! pech and LSette, young woman of strong
! feeling, though lax in principle, would not have
heStated to give up the money recompenSe she
was to receive of the Dell lpechs, were not her
marriage with the amiabe son of miserly old
SimOnet dependent thereon, if she might there
/ by have assisted in breaking the ignoble fet-
tiers in which vagrant fancy, helped by cum
Mug arts, had bound her gentle-minded mis-
tress. But, alas Lisette Meudon, keen and
wary as she deemed herself, had been as fatal
| y duped by those cunning arts as Adrenne
! Beaudesert herself. So at least confidently
calculated the two Delpechs
The death-rites duly celebrated, the affairs
of life regained regard and prominence and it
was found that the large possessions of Mad
anne la Baronne de Vautpre were secured to
Adlienne Beaudesert, clogged by one condi-
tion only, that whosoeyer she married was to
assume the name of Beaudesert and it was
also provided that during AdTienne's minority,
Cardinal Retz and the Able Morax were to
have certain coatrol over her expenditure
VI. Morlaix to reside of right during that pc
riod at the Chateau d'Em, and to receive for
life the same h0nOraries as had been paid him
by the testatrix. The instruments by which
the property was thus devoved had been exc
cuted only about three months previously
The brilliant future that had so long euded
the grasp and Knocked the hopes of Madame
Beaudesert was at last more than realized, to
her exuberant delight unbounded exultation {;
and it was not very long before the dark, fit
ful fancies that haunted the imagination of
Mademoiselle, her daughter, were chased away,
or superseded bv the excitement attendant up-
on the novel and dazzling position to which
Madame la Baronne'S death had raised her
The Able MorIaix, who kept himself very se-
cuded, rarely interfered with the management
I,f ff.,ip Ii IL, L
aud more eated mother and sister, seemed
never weary in realizing to themselves, in
thousand ways, the intoxicating possession of
riches, power, social supremacy. 1t was the
acted fable, so far. of the beggar on horseback,
with the catastrophe of the dizzying ride to
come.
After three months enjoyment of home
/ splendors however, eunui began to arise, and
heightened tonr was projected by the ladies,
through Switzerland aud Italy.
During these three months the Delpechs
had made no demonstration whatever. The
] fathers timidity of temperament had operated
to suspend the blow, the possible recoil of
which might bring about his own destruction.
/ -Hight--yeS but not if his brain retained its
mastering, guiding power. After all nothing
could be wanting to insure success, but Faudacs,
I et encore de Fdudqce
"Sacre biew-yes: we know that very well, >"
/ Sullenly exclaimed Paul, who had heard that
/ sooquy, or one very like it, hundred times
before; "but when the moment of action ar
! rives, your heart is to be found in your shoes,
/ if anywhere. 1t was worth while, truly, to
venture so far, only to short when the prize
was in sight-within handclutch as you we'll
know Not long to remain So" added the
young man bitterly, 'for it is quite certain the
Beaudeserts leave France for one perhaps two
years but whether one or two, MademoSelle
will not return, We may fully assure ourselves,
says Lisette Meudon-the confding simpleton
she is, or more correctly, had been"
You have seen LiSette Meaudon?"
:" hare seen Lisette Meudon, who through
me, returns the three NapoleonS you once lent
her, with her compliments, and polite intima-
! ton that for the future, she must decline the
honor of our acquaintance"
"The insolent baggage !"
That polite peremptory intimation," con
| tinued Paul, did not prevent her from con-
doing with me upon the sad blight to my
hopes caused by the discovery that Mademoi-
selle Beaudesert cares no more for my faciua.
ting self than for any other of the country
clods upon which the light of her couutenance
may have occasionally fallen"
And what pray, may be the meaning of
all that i1solence 2"
"The meaning is plain enough la demois-
ellie Meudon, thanks to the powerful interposi-
tion of her mistress, will be Madame Claude
Simonet in day or two elevated, therefore,
above our position in life-and, cent dia6les
that is true too" added Paul Delpech, with
an explosion of savage temper.
True Surely, Paul"-
True-yes, certainly it is true" interrupt
ed the son, with heat infamed by the liquor
he had teen drinking, but it shall not be for