The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1875-05-16
upllin,s voice ouivered. Dives softened, but

on. .he way or I will rettrnto deliver you.
win start tosnight.. The Kaiserliks already
surround the mountain. No matter; have
good Eprse, and was always lucky
: At siS o'clock darkness had fallen on every
peak. Hundreds of fires flashing IL the gor ges
sho wed where the Germans were preparing
their evening meal Marc-Dives deBcendea'
CROPPING his way. Huilin listened for Anew
seconds to his comrades footsteps, and then
turned, buried in thought, 70 tho old tower
where he had established hsE hsadq uarters.
He lifted the thick WOODEN curtain which
closed the entrance, and saw Catherine, Louise
and the others gathered around o little hire,
which lighted up tho grey walls. The old
woman, seated on an oaken block, her baLds
clasped around her knees, gszed fxediy at the
flame, her lips set tightly together, and her
face seemingly tinged with q greenish tint In
in its extreme pallor. Jerome, standing behind
Catherine, his folded arms resting on his staff,
touched the Shiny roof with his otfer skin cap.
All were sad and disheartened. HexesESaisel,
who was lifting the cover of gpeat pot. and
Dr. Lorquin, scraping the old wall with the
poipt of his SABRE alone kept their accustomed
looks.
"Here we are" said the Doctor, returned to
tho times of the Triboci. These walls are more
than two thousand years old. fine quantity
of water must have flowed from the heights OF
Falkenstein and Grossman through the Sarre
and the Rhine since fire was made before in
! this tower"
eyes" replied Catherine, as if awakening
from a dream "and many besides us have here
suffered cold, hunger, want. Who KNOWS no"
mapyf And when a hundred or two or three
hundred years shall have passed, still others
may here seek shelter. They, like us, Will ma
the walls cold and the floor damp. They Will
mako a little fire, and gazing on each other az
we now gaze, will ask, 'Who suffered mere
before us, and why did they suffer- Were
they pursued, hunted as we have been, tha
thew would fain hide themselves in such mis-
erabls den r And then they will think of by
4 gone years, and no one may answer them"
jean Claude drew near. In a few moments
raising her head, she said, as she looked a
him: 81 &c
-r"Wellp we are blockaded,; the enemy seek
to reduceus by famir1e."- -' =.
+ :, ,.True, tCAtherine,n replied HulHn. ~ di
not expect that. l counted on an attack; bu
, the Kaiserliks are not yet 80 sure of us as the
imagine. Dives has just started for Phal
, bouIg. He knows" tho commandment; and
they only send hundredmen to our succor-
. 1--WE must not rely on it," interrupted tt
a old woman. 'Marc may be captured or k1iet
and even should he succeed in making his wa
If throu gh their lines, how could he enter Phal
r, bou.Gf You know the city is besieged by Il
o Russians"s g.. S. ..r'
All remaiped silent. '-s.. ...'
ln Hexe- Babel soon brought some soup, al
:" the party formed circle around the gre
~ Smoking pot. ,''n'.'-. LIE
CHAPTER xxlv. ar - e. .
Catherine Lefevre came forth from the TT
Y, at about seven O'Clock in the morning. Lou
til and Hexe-Baizel were yet sleeping; but day
of the brilliant day of the mountaius-alrea
IL flooded the valleys. Far below through
blue depths, forests, georges, rocks, were
N. lined like the moses and pebbles of Ia
ur beneath it's crystal waters. Not a breath 81
a red the air. and Catherine, as she surveyed
to grandeur of the scene, felt sense OF peace
,es oalm-of repose, greater even than that
as sleep, steal over her. "Our miseres, our
ia. rest and our suffe;ings are but of day."
ill thought. why disturb heaven with
Groansa Why dread the futurei All th
yes things endure but q moment Our plants
on "a those of butterfly when the leaves ia
they do not keep winter away. limo must
not for all we must die that we may be
en- again" ,..r..... 49,
rho Thus unused the old woman, and she
longer feared what might happen. Sudd'
ort- o murmur of voices filled her cars; she tuI
and saw Hnllin with tho three smugglers
you earnestly talking, on the opposite side of
plateau, They had not seen her, so deeply
-, the subject of their conversation int
:. j them.
ly's Old Brenn, at the edge OF the rock, wi
my short, black pipe between his teeth, his CHI
city wrinkled like withered leaf, short. nose,
try moustache, bleared eyelds, halfclosed
her, reddish brown eyes, and long great-coat sic
the hanging by his sides, gazed at the diffe
tally points Hulln was showing them among
af- mountains and the other two, wrappet
fix their gray cloaks, stepped forward or
Is q ward, shading their eyes with their hand
are deep attention. ...
our Catherine walked toward them, and
bite, she heard:
vt is "Then you do not think it possible to T
10. | the foot of the mountain 7"