Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1871-01-05
/ am dead and buried. How in the


name of all that is spectral, am to be
born again to the world of Versailles
and the Court Of France z"
"Ah, well, have friend at court,
/ who after blaming me for marrying
4 70 thful beauty, was magnanlmous
enough to forego the pleasure ofsaying
/ i told you sol and to uphold me in
/ the hour of need. The King, with
whom years ago ] have gotten into
MANY a scrape. knows all about your
pretended death and burial
"'The King knows all about it,"
echoed Eugene
s'Of course he does, my dearest
/ How otherwise could have carried out
the stratagem Do you suppose that
any man ia France is bold enough to
make way with one of his Majesty's
subjects as did, without being open
to suspicion2 l was obliged to have
royalty for my confdant, that / might
kill and bury my wife with impunity
You know that in my youth was one
of those eauriens called pages to the
King. Many are the tricks / have
| played with Louis for an accomplice;
this one, / presume, will be the last
but think / may hatter myself that it
/ is the best. "
! Eugene laughed heartily, and at the
petit soupcr that was shortly afterward
served up to herself and her husband
she was az merry as lark. She was
resolved, however. to be revenged on
! De Breteuil
| The next day was to witness the
| signing of the marriage contract. De
Breteuil was in the act of rising with
his f0ncee to approach the table, when
the folding doors of the state drawing
room were flung wide open, and lack
ey announced:
''The Marquis and Marchioness De
/ Charnay"
At the sound of her name De Bre-
till gave a start, dropped the hand of
his betrothed, and gazed in speeches.
terror at the vision of his lost love-
But no spectral figure robed in white
met his eye The lady that leaned on
De Charnay's arm was corporal, tan
gible and elegantly dressed in the pre-
vailing fashion Of the living. More
beautiful than ever for country air
always improves a city belize, Eugenie
came forward, smiling, and to all the
"ohs ~ and ''ahs ~ of her friends, and
to the ordinations of the company in
general as to her sudden death and
burial, she raised her pretty shoulders
and pointed to her husband.
1t was agreed upon between the
Marcnioness and myself
" But why, why the compact" was
the cry.
''Ah, ladies and gentlemen, that is
a family secret, and cannot be di-
vulged."
There was a great rejoicing over
Eugenie's resurrection, and people
were, Of course, curious to hear the
news from Hades. In the midst of the
hilarity to which her adventure had
given rise, she found an opportunity to
speak to de Breteuil
She handed him his three notes, and
said:
would you, too, like to hear from
beyond the tomb9 Those contain all
the news I gathered there, and when
you have seen their contents you will
acknowledge they were not worth the
trouble they have given me- y
Of course, the Warehouses de Char
nay had to be presented again at court.
Nobody being i'll the secret of her dis
appearance except the King and de Bre-
teuil, it remained a secret, for de Bre-
teuil was quite as much interested in
keeping silence as any one of the party.
The marriage of de Charnay proved,
after all, happy one. His lovely
young wife became deeply attached to
him, and invllnerable to the blqndish-
ments Of other men. But in spite of
her youth and roseate health, she be-
came an object of terror to the inhab-
itants of Versailles They had seen
her coffin and her funeral obsequies,
and they never could persuade them
selves that she had not risen from the
dead. To them she was q ghost, to the
end of her days, and her spirit never
was LAID until the French nobility We're
swept from the face of the earth.
Summary of Congressional Proceedings.
SENATE, Dec. 22.-The credentials of T. j.
Jewett appointed by the Governor of Missou-
II to I'll the temporary vacancy caused by
brakes resignation, we're presented by Schurz,
and JeWett was sworn ina short executive
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