American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1873-02-08
VOL. XIII.

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Without doubt, if this were told to Pas
chal CloGtier, he would resent it and re
fuse the addresses which Marcel deter
mined sooner or later his son sho.7d
make. After work-time, he stro.}ers t'oown
to the bridge, where he kk.eA he should
lind Paschal, and told fiim that as he had
a large order for horse-shoes, which t,.,::si
De ready before the 18th, he Should say
nothing about Eulaiie 70 Raoul just then,
for fear it wonid take all his thoughts of
his work. Paschal nodded his assent. al
thesgh he die not give entire credit to hi.
rtightor's excuses.
Day by day Raoul and his father
fought wordy battles, which grew more
and more bitter and hard, until Marcel
went to Jeanne Ferouelle, and told her
all his grievance and got kcr to promise
that she would keep strict watch on
Nannette. and SO prevent her meeting
Raoul. For time this survei.!ailce sue,
ceeded, but one morning, on account of a
word which the cid sol .ier Brisac brought
to her, Nannette was up by break ef t::aay,
and stealing down into ts.s yard, she
found Raol1 waiting there looking des-
perate, with a little bundle in his hand,
~ Il for going away.
les, - he said, t'Nannette, Ihavc Genie
to say adieu. l cannot live Under the roof
of my father, eat his bread, and listen to
the words he speaks OF. thee sid me.
He will give me no proper wages he calls
me at best an .fdNe dog, who will never
earn enough to NIL my own mouth. So 1
leave him, Nannette; and more, l leave
thee, my well-beloved, but only to gain
enough to call thee mine In face Of all the
world. Brisac tells me that III England
and America they vAlte sihisas more than
any trade going, a|sd pay them as much
in month ~ in Caen or Rennes one
would get in q year, SO l shall go to
granville, and find some ship to take me
:;.ere and in year thou wilt be mine,
Nannctte."
''Will nothing do" she groaned, "but
that thou must go from me"
"Itis best, Nannette indeed 1t is,'' said
poor Raoel, down, whose cheeks the tears
were rolling. ;sff stay, I know not
what may happen. Each day my father
grows more Violent. In his rate me threat
ems to do thines CO which thou couldst
never dream he makes vows, takes Oaths,
until l think the devil himself must have
got into his skin and be speaking to me.
Be brave, Nannette, for my sake. Re-
member it Is my love for thes which gives
me courage for this step,
When It wAs dIecbVered that, without a
word OF whit he meant to do, or where
he meant to go, Raoul had left his home,
Marcel Vanier, feigned to say that he was
well rid Of the young rascal, though
again. cap in hand, begging for forgive
ness" And he added that the would
kill the fatted calf for the wedding feast.''
The reason for all this was, that
he felt sure that Raoul had gone to
good customer of theirs at Rennes; and
thithcr, thinking he should find him en-
ployed in the smithy, Marcel pretended
he was forced to go; but when he was
told that his son had neither been seen or
hon ri ,f h<ac cot off f,v.A .fuSr, Re
anxiety increasing. he even went TO Caen,
at all of which places he supplied nails
and horseskoes, but no tidings could he
get. Then at last he was fain to come to
Nahnette, and, asking to see her alone, he
implored her, if she knew anything about
his boy, to tell him.
All that Nannette had to tell she told !;
and the very next day the diligence took
Marcel to Granville, where, after much
search, he learnt that some weeks before
Raoul had left for Canada on board a YES
sci called the Angelique, the captain OF
which was cousin to our old fiiend Brisac.
So there was nothing for it, but that
Marcel Vanier should return to Wire, and
make out of his sons departure the best
story he could. He pretended that he
thought it no such bad thing for q young
fellow to see little of the world. 1t
would take the fool out of him, he said,
and when he came back he'd have learn.
ed to know wine from cider" People be-
gan to wonder why it was, that, evening
after evening. he was always to be met
walking down the valley towards the
house of Monsieur Fourcher, who was
then agent to the paper mills there and
at last it came to be whispered abroad,
that Monsieur Foucher could put people
in the way of making-a fortune SO easily,
that you had but to give your money to
some one in Paris, whom he would tell
you of, and it was doubled and trebled in
no time.
Some were all for wishing that they had
money to give him, but the old ones shook
of new ways. and only fools trusted mon
ey out of sight and reach.
Nannette often sighed over the re-
ports of Marcel's growing riches, for in
them she only saw fresh barrier between
her and Raoul.
swell, madame, at last the weary year
came to an end. The great fete was over,
and the day on which Raoul should have
returned to Wire past month since.
Reports would come occasionally that
some one had seen some one else, who had
seen a sailor at Granville, who knew
Raoul Vanier, and who said he was at
-, and was getting on famcusly. At
another time it would be limited that nei-
ther the Angelique, nor any one on board
her. would ever be heard of again, as a
vessel answering her in every way, had
foundered at sea, and gone down with
every sOulin her.
tidings did come Of RaOul, through the
CAPTAIN. of the Angelique, whom Marcel
Vanier travelled all the way to Havre to
see. From him Marcel heard that he left
RaOul at Quebec, tn It he was doing well
and could have got work in the dOckyard
there, but he had had better offer fur
ther in the inter or, and he started for that
part the same day the Angelique: left for
the port to which she was bound. The
captain had quite expected to find him at
home again; for he laughed at Raoul, as
having made but sad sailor.
Every, ody talked of the money Marcel
Vanier was making. Twas plain, they
said, that ClOutier did all the counting
now, and he had made Eulalie refuse sew
eral young men, hoping he might yet Sc
cure Ra0ul as a husband for her.
Marcel Vanier now came nearly every
day to breakfast and dinner at the hotel
that he might get into talk with the trav-
elers, who knew Paris, and could tell him
of the banks, and the funds and the bourse,
about all of which he seemed to under
stand as much as they did. Sometimes
Monsieur FOurcher would accompany
him, and his presence was always well
come, for he was very merry and ready
with his joke and laugh, and everybody
was sorry to hear one day that he had
been offered better post nearer to Paris,
and that he was going to leave Wire al
most Immediately. Nannette had of la:e
become a much more important person
age than in former days; for her cousin,
Jeanne Ferouelle, lost her husband of a
fever, which Notwithstanding that he had
been dying of asthma for twenty years,
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