The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-04-22
MARY MILTON.


In all the confusion of the inn at
Bouillon, George Dickson could not
help noticing that wherever he went,
one pair of eyes followed him, as if to
gain his attention. He, however, said
to himself, " You have a tongue, my
French friend, and can speak if you
choose - and then be thought nothing
more about the matter, but gazed on
the extraordinary scene before him.
The people were eating on the floor,
on the hearthstones, on the beds, and
on the billiard table. They we're eating
indiscriminately everything they could
get hold of. and drinking every thing
which was liquid. Some were still
asleep where they had fallen down the
night before, and there was a CHASTITY
hilarity about the whole thing which
disgusted George, and made his two
companions eagerly acquiesce in imme-
diate departure.
"Let us get on and get over" he re-
marked; anything is better than these
excited, boozing wretches."
Then the Frenchman who had watched
George come up, and, taking him
aside, said, in perfect good English /:
"Sir, am going to ask you for great
favor. VIII you allow me to accompany
you ?"
" Really, sir" said George. "our ex-
pedition is none the most pleasant or
safe.'
EXACTLY; but you have two passes,
while have actually no papers at all. "
"I cannot recommend your going
forward, SIR"
"No I would not recommend it my
self. only ask it as favor. Ny sis
ter is at school in town, which yours,
Mr.. Dickson, is safe in London. Come,
sir, go bail for me aud let me 60 with
you. If London was sacked I would
do the same by you"
Ga You seem to know me, sir" said
George, very much surprised. eff you
know much about me, you must be
aware that / trusted a stranger once too
often in my life, and am not prepared
to trust another"
"Don't say that" says the French
man. "I know that you are only here
as a newspaper correspondent. Be-
cause you trusted a Frenchman who
was false to you, will not be so.
pray YOU most earnestly to let me go tC
the front with you and get news of my
sister. Surely you cannot refuse"
But, my dear sir, you may be 6
spy, for anything know" said
! George.
{. Well, am" was the startling re-
ply 'but not hele, or in this matter
| Had been acting as a spy l should
have had papers as it is I have none
I am only a Jesuit, and we are getting
much the worse of it. I will swear tC
you that my only object in going to thu
| front is to see after the safety of m!
| T1vy,n from RnFT1
storiff is signed for yourself and on,
friend. Make me that friend. I an
only Jesuit.
"You seem to know a greal dea
about me-" said George.
"I do" was the answer. My coUs
in. Aime Herbert, was at one tim
vour friend. You were together a
Dieppe. You knew him when he go
older, and you trusted him. He de
ceived you-for time-and you had t
nav some money for him"
"One hundred and eighty pounds,
said George, ruefully.
eyes, 1 thought it was two hundred
can get that all back for You. ID
will be able to pay soon, and ne Wi
nav. He is a very honest fellow"
"Is he a Jesuit ?" asked George.
ga Jesuit What are you talkin
Off No, he is, like myself, Free MI
"But you said TyOul were a Jesuit,
"I don't think said that" said IL
Frenchman.
lyon certainly did" said George.
"I am so worried that don't kno
what did say" said the young Frencl
man. "What on earth could have II
duced me to say that ?''
al do not know" said George. CD
YOU know that do not even know yoT
name?"
"Delaval. Your mother was Dell
val, you know"
aThat is certainly true. Do.you clail
relationship ?"
! sNot for the world. know nothin
, of you save this, that you went securit
for YOUR fellow-student, Anne Herber
|, who is my cousin. In consequence {
! his falling, you have come here as
, correspondent to a daily paper. He
, bert can pay now, and for your klnC
ness to-day will make him. In od
society We have power which you do M
, dream of.
"The Jesuits are powerful" sal
j George.
nave OOlQ you NuOS OOtOAO bA43s
was not a Jesuit, said Delaval.
"And once that you were, sal
George, laughing. Well, We nee
not talk any more. You are something
and Won need not choose to tell wha
[ shall find out some day or other.
, Yes, I suppose so. Meanwhile,
: have a great friendship for you, and
, ! should like to be reciprocated. "
might both of us do one another SON
: good
George Dickson had good look
the man, and, sharp young lawyer tn
he was, could not make him out at al
He was very handsome, shaved like
/ gentleman, with no hair or his face e
= cspt the moustache; {; and yet he d
j. not look like a Frencbman. He sal
/ that he was a spy, Jesuit, and Fr'
Mason, all in the same breath VIII
j, was he? he appeared to George Die
) son something between Greok and
Jew when he examined him more nearl
j You are a very agreeable compa
ion," said George Dickson ." but
+ tell you the truth. / am in no humor
q talk business. What has happened
/ so ehastly and horrible that ! can thin
of nothing except the awful misfC
@ tunes"
They had crossed the frontier
some time now. The road through {
forest continued to be very beautifJ
n and the weather heavenly. But in
turn Of the road, at place where II