The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1867-08-05
THE FLOWER OF RUEL
By CHARLES S. LANCASTER.
Conclusion,

IL [Conelasion.I oLh &c.,
"Well, Motteville, have you seen any
thing suspiciousp
al have, indeed, your eminence."
"Silence, fool; speak louder, and say
capitaine." -.. -.vro- ...H
III have seen that gentleman we were
to have met in Paris en- the qadi, near
the Palais Royal, that night in Septem-
ber.n
"Ob, indeed which ofthemp
""The one from Picardy, my capi-
taine."
The soldier rose suddenly and opened
the door of the room, and finding no one
listening, said, in low voice:
"Yeu mean the brayo De Brassyp
81 do. thought KNEW the horse in
the stable. and managed to see him in
the next ROOM"
"The next roomw said the soldier in
alarm. care we guarded ~ s..,
"There are four, your eminence; two
laborers drinking under the trees in
\ front, the carpenter who is putting up
the door of the opposite shed, and the
supposed woman, who is gathering sim
pies in the hedge"
"And you forgot to add yourself"
~ did not forget, for am going to
fetch Ia Signora LeonOra."
0True; tell her to make haste, for /
like not the near neighborhood of this
Picardy gentleman, now that, by ac-
cursed misfortune, | am without my
mail" - ..-
The servant mounted and left, and
the soldier was left alone.
The soldier in the next room had
meanwhile climbed the lew tree looking
into the room.
He came in by the back sf the house,
aud calling the host, said 10 him voice
hoarsc with emotion:
80 that is the uncle of In signora I"
II suppose so, as he has sent by his
servant to fetch her."
''Shall | tell you something elseP
"If you will. Anything you like"
"That soldier uncle is the court rat"
"His eminenceW '~'
"Yes, without doubt"
"Do you know, caught rat in a
trap the other day, and stuck skewer
right through him! Now, you wear
somthing like skewer."
THAT may be; but yours was very
long skewer, and you stood outside the
trap and put it in between the wires.
If you had TO 60 into trap to put a
skewer into n rat as big as yourself,
with another skewer and coat of mail
under his fur, think you would not
have killed the rat, mine host"
."very true, NJ. le Capitaine, forgot
these facts But if two went into the
trap with two skewers
"Do you see those two men drinking
some wine out there~
do (; and good wine it is for such as
they are"
"'Such as theyv Those peasants are
two of the best dagger men in France.
They have pistols under their belts, and
can hit the ace at twenty PAGES. Do
you see that man at work at your neigh
bors opposite. That is another. His
basket contains, besides 4 set ofcarpen-
ters tools, a carbine that will kill at
one hundred PAGES certain. That, You
see, is four OF two, Now look at that
woman gathering simples. She seems
large woman."S~F
"She does-almost a man."
"No wonder ; it is n man. No less a
one than the lieutenant of the cardinals
gdrdes so you see, though you should
enter the room two to one, single
whistle would make us two to five, and
these are odds, fear, NJ. Jaquss, you
have not trained for lately" ,..
"What is to be doneT
"This-send your daughter to ask
him to have something; the day is
warm; he may like her lOOks-that is
our chance"
~ see! the powder"
"Yes, the powder first-and failing
that, the steel" ..'f'-
The girl came in, and asked his emi-
nence what she could serve him with.
"Some wine-some fruit-some wine,
girl"
"Of what kind, monsieur
"Such as the peasants drink"
at is not good enough; There is the
better kind, that we drink in the house
on feast days.y, t-tG A.t
Bring that, then"
She brought the wine, and placed the
jug on the table, then left the room and
fetched somefruit. Taking the cup in
his hand he poured out the wine and
tasted it. At the instant of tasting i'll
he noticed that the mottled shadow
from the leaves of the trees that fell on
the floor became in part solidifed. If
the form had any shape, it was that of q
man. He was evidently watched; he
waited till the girl came in, unconscious
that she watched by both father and
mother. But the quick ear of the car.
dinal told him the door had not shut,
and he at once sent the girl to shut it,
and with the jug in his hand, and once
more tastingi it, detected the presence of
a fine powder, traces Of which were ap-
parent, on close inspection, on the rim of
| the wine jug.
y"And this is the wine you drink On
festival daysf" said the soldier, when
the girl returned with some fruit.
Yes, NJ. le Capitaine; the other, that
our people drink, we call our vintage de
MaZarin." ~ +........ .'- gri
o. "Why so!'L-- .-r.
"Oh, because since the revival of the
law for taxing the housesin Paris, we
have had to put so much more water IN
it to make more profit
tThen you do not love the cardinal
here ~ .r.,,..r...5 .. -.
Not at all my father didn't like him
before, and now"
Yes, now Z" .5.rs .r..-
He hates him s-asFE Boo -&.
"Why o.. d.: s',-sI 80 .ca ...i.''
~ do not know much-chiehy be-
Ioanse ofthe tax E5J SsSfz zSFftt
els he ut homsfr u a
"Yes, that washe you saw, and he has
been drinking this same wine in the
next room with soldier like yourself
from Picardy."