The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1874-08-27

Los, Inauanc, very SOOQ one, l.
replied ; " but ! first earned the right"
" An y calculated Madame again but
this time very TREMENDOUSLY. Then you
have-you-"
"Yes, Madame" answered. finding
she could not finish the sentence. "And
now will you kindly allow me to see
Mademoiselle De Gray %
"No, Monsieur no p she replied
with hasty emphasis. "My poor An
toinette has sinned no doubt !: bnt she
shall be protected. You shall not see
my poor child, Monsieur" she con
Guided passionately. Heaven and I
will make good woman of her vet y
"My dear Madame, you quite mis-
take me, answered feelingly.
"Mademoiselle is innocent" r was
hardly prepared for the little French
woman S outburst of Joy.
"My Antoinette Ny pure darling |!
My white dove My wronged angel
Sweet heaven, 7 thank thee p she cried
tearfully.
And, before I could say more. she
had darted from the room. In few
minutes she returned, leading tall,
elegant, golden-haired girl, whose
proud eyes glittered with tears. This
fair vision Of Youthful beauty left
Madame's side and came to me. ct
thank you, Monsieur she said, with
simple earnest dignity. 81 thank you
most truly"
CT have done little or nothing to en-
title me to your thanks, Mademoiselle. y
[ smiled IN response. But have YOU
no desire to learn the name of the guilty
party?"
"Ah, true p exclaimed Madame. "I
forgot all but my infinite JOY. Tell us,
Monsieur"
First, Mad anne, I answered, "per-
NIT me to restore your stolen money.
You have your keys, see; will you
be kind enough to open the treasure
box %
And, Fastening to the closet, I brought
out the japanned-box.
Madame knelt down and wonderinoly
turned the key. I then lifted the lid
and removed the false bottom. An as
tonished exclamation parted Mademoi-
selle De Grays lips, but Madame
leaned over the box like one in dream.
and could not be convinced until the
notes were in her hand and counted.
that it was no dream at all, but most
pleasant reality.
-" Yes, Antoinette," she at last said.
rising and casting the notes on the
table, every sou of it is here. And
to think of it's being in the old box,
Antoinette p YES, smiled Mademoi-
selle, with puzzled expression, "but
But" interrupted Madame, even
more vivaciously, but who put it into
the box ?" And she fixed her eyes in
eager expectancy Oh mine.
"The-the apparition," I faltered,
entered the room between 2 and 3
o'clock, and went straight to the cabi-
net. In few moments the notes were
purloined and deposited where you just
now found them"
But the secret compartment, Mon
sieur," interrupted Madame, excitedly,
"was it opened without difficulty ?"
eyes, Madame.
"Strange! most strange p she
calculated, in perplexing tones, add
ing the next instant, eco on. Mon
sieur."
THAT is all, Madame"
All ! But what did you do, Mon
sieur, she asked, sharply.
/" Nothing, Madame, but stagger
aside and gaze like an imbecile after the
retreating form I had extended my hand
to seize"
"Oh p exclaimed Madame, in low,
awed voice. Was it-you called it an
apparition. [ recollect, Monsieur.
What-what did it resemble?"
I" 1t was woman. A small, pallid
woman clad in a trailing crimson robe
-"
GA crimson robe" echoed Madame
and Mademoiselle, both evidently
aghast.
eyes, and with silvery white hair"
"White hair p again echoed both,
looking at each other with faces of con-
sternation.
Mademoiselle De Gray recovered
herself first. "What else, Monsieur ?"
she queried, impatiently.
"Nothing else, Mademoiselle, except
that this singular apparition carried a
bronze candlestick and yonder bunch
of keys" Mademoiselle gazed at me
moment in silence, and then, turning
suddenly, flung her arms about the
Madame's neck, and, kissing her on
both cheeks, exclaimed between tears
and laughter
"Ohl you naughty, naughty thief"
Madame stared from Mademoiselle to
the picture of bewildered dismay then
dropping her eyes to the floor, she re-
volyed, apparently, some perplexing
question. Presently she looked up.
Il" Tell me, Antoinette, /" she nuttered
doubtfully, "why did you drug Mon
sieur's coffee ?"
"I?" exclaimed Mademoiselie. flush
lug with establishment, "I did it no
more than [ stole the money. L knew
not that Monsieur was here, much less