The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1875-03-28

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house official invaded his premises, but proofs
were wanting. The smuggler, thanks 70 MS
complete knowledge of all the 'defies OF the
mouutain, and of all the roads from Dagsoourg
| to Ssrrebruck, from Raon rEtape 10 Bale in
Switzerland, always seemed twenty miles 1roW
the place where such conflicts occurred. Then
| be had such harmless air-in short, the
rumors against him inevitably recoiled upon
! those who started them
II was thinking of you last night, Hullin,' |
cried Marc, coming ont of his den, " and If you
hadn't come 1 shodld have gone all the way to
the sa~-mil 10 meet you. Sit down. He1e-
BABEL, give Hullin chair"
He himself sat upon the wide hearth, with
his back TO the fire, opposite the open door,
around which BILE W the winds of Alsace and OF
Switzerland.
The view through the narrow opening was
magnifcent-a rock-framed picture, but how
grand a one. There lay the whole valley OF
the Rhine, and beyond the mountains melting
into mist. The air, too, was SO fresh and pure,
|, and when the blue expanse without tired the
eyes, the little fire within, with its red, dancing
flames was there to relieve them.
Marc" said Hullin, after moments silence,
"can speak before your wife 7"
.
DWELL. have come to buy powder and lead
. of YOU y
"To shoot hares, l suppose" returned the
smuggler, half-closing his eye, and gazing
, keenly al Jean-Claude.
"No; to fight the Germans aud the Rus
slams"
There was another silence.
sand you want good DEAL suppose"
y Gas much you furnish"
II 81 can furnish three thousand francs worth
O to-day" said the smuggler.
+. II will take it,"
"Aud as much more in week." continued
!. Marc calmly, still gazing steadily at his friend.
. 81 will take it,"
"You will take it ~ cried Hexe-Baizel-"you
40 will take it! 1 believe you, but who will pay
ia for it ~
r. "Silence!" said Marc roughly. "Hullin viii
10 take it; his word is enough"
ut Then stretching out his broad hand to tn
All sabot m aker, he exclaimed:
We "Jean- Claude, here is my hand The powde
and lead yours; but wish to stand m
share of the expense Do you understand :"
Eyes, Marc but intend to pay at once"
Nd "He will pay himself" cried Hexe-B aize
10 "Do you hear r.
oh Gam deafi Babel, go fetch bottle G
mn rimbele-udsser to warm What HULL
tells me fills with joy. Those beggarl
I'd Haiserliks won't have things go easily a
80 they imagine. Our people will defend then
4 selves aad well ="
"a "They will! they will ~
- "And there are those among then, who wi
y, pay for what is needed"
catherine Lefevre will pay, and it is 81
-. who sends me here" said Hullin.
~ Then Marc arose, and, extending his har
a. toward the precipice, exclaimed:
or "She is a woman among thousand. II
80 soul is great yonder rock, Oxenstei
Never saw 1 grander. drink to her healt
ia Drink, too, Jean Claude"
-, "Hullin drank, and Hexe-B Aizel follow,
os the example.
THE bargain is made" cried Dives b
-, Hullin, 1t will not be easy to beat back tt
go foe! All the hunters, the workmen and Il
. wood-cutters in the mountain will not be t.
many. 1 have just come from beyond t
!, Rhine. The earth is black with Russian
Austrians, Bavarians, Prussisns, Cossacl
a., hussars The villages cannot contain the
w and they encamped upon the plains, in t
valleys, on the heights in the cities, evel
where, everywhere :"
ma. sharp cry pierced the air.
1T is a buzzard chasing its prey" said Ma
AT the same instant shadow passed o7
.es u the rock. A cloud of chafincbes and Sun
oor. birds swept over the cave, and hundreds
n,ar buzzards and hawks dashed on above the
90 in with loud screams. 30 dense and broad v
siro the feathered mass, that it seemed almost
nv movable, while the tuttering of 80 una
oh. Thousand wings sounded like dead lea
- driving before the wind.
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our stock of ammunition"
Hexe-Baizel could not willingly obey
command.