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

Then they walked together. The
road still wound up the hillside, above
flashing trout stream, seen far below
them in the valley, through trembling
leaves. Then there came turn in the
right, and they passed through the sol
itary street of La Chapelle.
George Dickson stood among the
dead, and looked round him. The
place must have been beautiful at one
time, and later travellers have told us
that it is once more beautiful by nature,
though to our eyes it will remain hor-
rible charnel house until death. The
| 18th of the French line lay in ruins,
motionless, except where they were be-
inc dragged to the trenches by German
soldiers.
''Wby does God allow such things"
= said aloud.
There spoke a villain" said the
Bengal officer. g I bet you ten rupees
| that you see some nature eImobled by
| this horrible business before the day is
over. What do you feel yourself ?"
'tI feel horrible, inconceivable pity.
I feel as If could lay down my own
life to mend theirs"
"Then hand me over ten rupees,
said the Bengal officer, "for your ma
ture has been eunobled. War is utterly
evil, but God brings good out of it
somehow. Look at that, man there is
a woman on the field, looking at the
dead mems faces"
"ADd there is that Frenchman, Dele
val, with her." said George. ''That
must be q sister. he said she was in
town; but he told me more in one
week than would believe in a twelve
month"
IS ''Really," said the Bengal officer.
/ Il A 4 L I -
"No liar ever does, my dear soldier"
said George. eff you were a lawyer
you would know that"
"I found my sister at Fonda de
Givonne," said Deleval, approaching
George. "She is looking for some one
whose death might be important to you,
Aime Herbert"
"But you said he could pay me"
said George, astonished.
MY dear sir, required assistance
in getting on, and I fergot what I told
you. IF any part of it was true. must
have been a great fool. My object was
to deceive you. Do me the compliment
to say that 1 succeeded, or / shall be
extremely angry with you"
George felt extremely inclined to
kick the man, but it was not the place
for any demonstration of the kind. He
said, '' never knew before a French
man to tell such falsehoods as you have
done, sir"
''But, my dear sir, ( am not
Frenchman," +" said Deleval.
She came toward them and raised her
veil. In one instant the great passage
iu George Dickson's life was over.
Amidst the horrible ruin and desolation
he saw the only woman he had ever
cared for the woman he had so seldom
seen in his life, but so many thou
sand times in his dreams.
Miss Milton. of Mifeld Lane. No
other person in the world. he had
met her twice st parties at Highgate,
and about there, and had fallen in love
with her. He had also dared to walk
with her in Milheld Lane, but she had
been cold, almost rude to him. He
had tried to forget her, but it had heen
useless. For the time. as he believed,
he had met her in Milford Lane, and
laid his love before her.
She told the plain truth. all her
people were French, except her father,
whose name she bore. She was afi-
snced to Aime Herbert, and could not
listen to him. He then committed an
awful ac5 of folly he made the ac-
quaintance of that young Frenchman,
50 that he might see her sometimes,
even when another's arm was round her
waist. He followed Aime Herbert
about, and at last went security for
him a debt which Herbert neglected
to pay, aud which for a time nearly
ruined George.
He would not be rich before his faith
er's death. His father was penurious
and mean, keeping him poor and telling
him that he must make his own way In
life. That does not do a man any harm
, if he can be got to believe it; and il
Georges father had stopped there all
would have been we'll. But the old
} man thought it would be fine thing for
George to marry we'll. He proposed to
match him with a rich young lady, older
than himself She was very good, and
he in a state of infuriated disappoint-
ment. George told her the lie that he
, loved her he knew it to be a lie, but he
told it. She believed him and was
4 or atly gratifed. In the meantime her
father decided that they must wait for
, three years and that he must make his
way in the world.
. So he went to the bar, and so natu-
rally he went to literature so he natu-
rally came to the field of Sedan, that
q Aceidama of so many hopes; and so on
/ that field he met his old. his only love,
dragged her away from him forever.
g Would he not have changed places
: with the dead when she told him the
truth ?-when she looked into his eyes
- with hers, and said softly, I" This is a
strange place to meet you, and this q
@ strange place for you to fipd me in.
was in town the whole of the horrible
day. The German soldiers were very
" kind to us, but the town was so horri-
l. Bile that came out and crept into a
l. house at Fomme de GivOnne. 1 have
come across the field where the 18th
o de la Ligny perished, because 1 wanted
r to see if I could recognize the body OF
one of my cousins"
+ "Your news is good" said George.
"You looked coolly for the body Of
n your lover"
''I do not understand you," she said.
6 "You are as rude to me as I used to be
y to you; but in this ruin we must forget
I, all. Ny nerve is good, because after
# the breach between myself and Aime
a Herbert, who grossly deceived you, ]
: have entered a nursing sisterhood, and
/ have taken my first VOWS, and I shall
r take the veil in three months. My
It father sent Mr.. Deleval after me F; but
think among those kindly Germans
d could have done without his assist
anee."
"Mr. Delaval said he was youi
brotherl -
"Mr. Delaval my brother p said she.
Mr.. Delaval is a Pole; I believe
3 known TO most police courts In Europe,
He is a splendid spy. and my father
employed him, but could get him nc
I papers be is too well known. Are you
i married yet?''
"No, not yet.
-e s'It is delicious to meet you here
after all Look around at these pOol
1t innocent young men, lying so quiet; IL
1t the presence of death one seems to bt
]. almost with God. We loved each Other
a once, now your heart has gone to an
( other human being, and mine is given
d to heaven"
d They stood looking at one another.
e Their interview ha0 been short, bui
It they had found out something in 1t