The Republican journal., 1873-11-06

The Marchioness throw herself into her
| husbands arms and thanked him from her
heart for his tender treatment Of hcr first
| folly.
And may securely promise that it
shall be my last. Tor Your noble conduct
mas won from me a warmer feeling than
had supposed could possibly exist in my
heart for u man 50 much older than my
self My dear excellent husband, fear
nothing ever more for me | am too
truly Yours to be caught III such Il snare
| again
My dearest, replied De Charnay,
when u woman is rs truly loved as YOU
are, and is gifted by nature with soul
like yours, she need never fear for her
honor provided She gives her confidence
TO her husband Had You acted otherwise
than you have done, your reputation
would have been injured. your lie blasted
and De Breteuil would have been talking
lightly OF his fancy for that poor Eugenie
de Charnay. As ii is. nobody has suffered
| have YOU back again and my happiness
is to-day without a flaw"
'All very well, sir" said the Marchion-
ess. galy; .'but YOU forget that am dead
and buried. How, in the name Of all that
p HPctllai, an 70 DH DoIH iSdlll " tlle
world Of Versailles and the court OF
France ri
:'Ah. well, have friend at court who
after blaming me for marrying 4 youthful
beauty, was magnanimous enough TO fore
50 the pleasure of saying, i told YOU so =
and to uphold me in the hour Of need
The King, with whom years ago | have
cotton into many Il Scrape, knows all
about your pretended death and burial"
The King knows all about it T. echoed
Eugenic,
"Of course he ioes, my dearest How
otherwise could | have carried out the
strataeem? Do You suppose that any man
in France is bold enough to make way
with one Of his Maiesty's subjects as | did,
without being open to suspicion? ] was
obliged to have royalty for my confdant.
that might kin and bury my wife with
impunity. You know that in my youth
was one Of those r0Urie12$ called pages to
the King. Many are the tricks | have
played with Louis for an accomplicc; this
one, presume, will be the last; but
think may llatter myself that it is, also,
my best
Eugenie laughed heartily. and at the
pOH s0uper that was shortly aftel ards
served up to herself and her husband She
was rs merry as 4 lark She was resolved,
however. to be reven9pd on De Bretcuil
The next day was to witness the signing
Of the marriage contract. De Breteuil
was in the act OF rising with his f0uccc to
approach the table, when the folding-doors
OF the state drawing groom We're flung wide
open and Z lackey annonnced-
The Marqui, and Marchionc~~ de
Charnay
At the sound Of her name, De Breteuil
gave a start. dropped the hand Of his be-
uothed and lost love, But no spectral
figure rohcd in white met his eye;
the lady that leaned on De Charnay'~ arm
was corporcal, tangible, and elegantly
dressed in the prevailing fashion of the
living More beautiful than ever (for
country ar always improves 4 city belle),
Eugene came forward smiling. and to all
the ''Ohs" ana Abs" Of her friends, and
to the exclamation of the company in
general a to her sudden death and burial,
She raised Her pretty shoulders and pointed
Ia her husband
IT was agreed upon between the Mar
chiones@ and myself
But whl. WHY such Il compact" ," was
the cry.
...\h. ladies and gentlemen. that is a
family secret, and cannot be divnlged.'
There wa, !. great rejoicing over Eu
GENES resurrection, and people We're, of
course. all curious to hear the news from
Hades In tie midst of the hilarity to
which her adventure had given rise. She
found an opportunity to speak to De Hre
teril
She handed him his three notes, and
said: would YOU. too. like to hear from
bevond the tomb? Those contain all the
news ! gathered there, and when you have
seen their contents, YOU will acknowledge
they We're not worth the trouble they have
given NE.
OF course he MarchioneS> de tharnay
had to be pre- sented again at court. No
body being in the secret Of her disappear
mce except the king and De Bretcuil, it
remained a secret, for the latter was quite
rs much interested in keeping the affair
secret as any one OF the party.
The marriage of De CharnaN prov ed
after all happy one. His lovely young
wife became deeply attached to him and
invunerablc TO the Establishments of all
other men, But, in spite Of her youth and
her roseatc health, she became AZ object
Of great terror to the Inhabitants of Yer
sailes They had seen her coffin and her
funeral ob5equics, and they never could
persuade themselves that She had not
arisen from the dead To them She was d
ghost to the end of her days, and her spirit
never was laid nnlil the French monarchy
perished and the French nobility were
swept from the face of the earth.