The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1873-10-16
THE GALLANTs MISTAKE.

not pSEGLOn OF Africa, OUT part ol
France that had been created by the
armies in times of peace as il had been
conquered in war by the French arms
j Algivrs IS Paris, OF course, but in becom
ing French it has not lost It's oriental pc
ouliarties and in This 1t is as much more
attractive than Paris as romance is to real
life.
When I was ordered to remain in
AlgIers with my regiment, coming from
Marseiiles, / came with most delightful
articipations was young lieutenant
then, aud my success with the fair sex in
v@rieG, garrison towns where had Dsen ,
gave me most brilliant ideas in regard to
The adventures that would befall me in
Anglers. Hours, with eyes Ike stars, en-
yeloped in cashmere, covered with dia-
mOnds, living in palaces with fountains
of rsse-wsttr and bowers of orange flowers
rose before me Indeed, the officers talk
ed SO much and so eagerly about the
charms Of the eastern women their pas
sion and their devotion, that felt ready
to risk my life'to obtain a sight of one Of
those lovely creatures who haunted my
dreams. .a2~raa aa a
New this vas 10 be the romance of my
life. The reality was already arranged
and settled in EuroE to tell the
truth, though my imagination WAS in
Algiers, my heart was in France with the
girl to whom had been betrothed since
my infancy. Lake all Frenchmen knew
that could marry only the young lady
whs would be thought by my parents to
be suited to me in station and fortune.
knew that only such wife could suit me
and had not the slightest idea that my
Eastern romance would interfere with any
of my engagements, not even with my
love. ...,
4 For loved my betrothe6, though had
not seen her since she was . child. The
daughter of an cid friend OF my fathers,
she had been brought up by her mother
in the s;rictest secluSlon, and in my wan
dering soldiers life, l hal not seen her
for six years. But this was my last years
probatien; at the close of the autumn
was to return to Marseilles; Cecile WAS ia
come with bar mother beneath my father:
roof, and we were to be married
The passion intended to feel tor one
of the oriental hours had nothing to dc
with the holy love for my future wife =
} for the future mother Of my children. She
was creased in the hottest temple of my
heart-the very altar fire of my life; the
oriental episodes were but as the lightning
flashes OF summer-storm, brief, bril- liar
aud evansscsnt.
It so happened that at one of the cafes
made the acquaintance of an intelligent
and rich old Jew merchant, who, from the
first, appeared to take extraordinary In
terest in ME. He amused with the de.
tails of oriental life and manners; told me
the legends of the country, and, in fact
SCENE to be living page from The
Arabian nights.
In return I told him all the circumitan-
ces of my life,all my military adventures,
and even, in a moment of extraordinary
confidence, went so far as to tell him all
about Carmen and our future marriage
This was done rather to give him an idea
of our European customs than with ar
idea of con6ding in him. 1 scarcely fel,
the indelicacy of talking about Cecie
because she was 80 utterly stranger tc
him.
had been some weeks in Algiers
: watching anxiously for an adventure
when one day mole was put in my hand
1t was highly perfumed, and tied, in
stead of being sealed, with gold thread
1t was written in most elegant hand
and was in the purest French, and it badc
me repair at nine o'clock to one of the
mosques, where most important reveal
ton would be made to me. Here was al
adventure at last. In the excitement o.
the moment l rushed to the Jew.
. "What am 1 dc? WHAT does this meant
at means that you are a hsndmome dog
and that some of our lovely women have
fallen in love with you.
"What am to do2"
eco to the Rendezvous of course"