The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1876-01-14

tcnoeo anu IOld the old story said
the man had been cruel to her, anC
she had stood it as long as shC
could. Verdict, Served him right
and so we lied over our pool
friends murdered body, and buried
him with maRy-sighs.in the little
churchyard at La Palace, and Their
trudged on, sad and doWncast, to
ward the gay capital.
CHAPTER XII.
think a lesson is to be learned
from this sad story. Too mucl
fear is not prudence. Had poo
Pipp1n walked with Elliot and
me alongside the elephant, she
dared not have attacked him.
But through fear he kept forty rods
in the rear, and she saw q chance
to get him by himself; and, from
my knowledge of her, l haYe little
doubt she had meditated this at
tempt for months before she carried
it out. Poor Pippinl
We arrived in Paris to play with
Franconi. Now it happened to be
incOnvenient to Franconi to fill his
engagement. He accordingly de-
clined us. NJ. Huguet was angry
threatened legal proceedings. Fran
conf followed suit; if hard pressed,
he threatened to declare in open
court that 1t was out of humanity
alone he declined to fulfill his en-
gagement. This stopped Nj. Hugu-
cts mouth altogether. He took a
place on the BouleVarde, and we
showed her and her tricks at three
prices, and did a rafting business.
Before we had been q fortnight in
Paris, old Tom Elliot died at the
Hospital Dubois, and became her
vizier at q salary of one hundred
francs per week.
Having now the sole response
bility. l watched her as you would
a powder magazine lighted by gas.
l let no body but Huguet go
near her in my absence This gen
tleman continued to keep her sweet
on him with Jumps of sugar, and to
act as her Snowman when she ex-
hibited publically.
One day we had q message from
the Tuileries, and we got the place
extra clean and the kings child
rem paid her a vista lot of little
chaps. did not know their names,
but 1 suppose it was Prince join
vile, Aumale, and cetera. All l
know is that while little Louis
Philippes were coaxing her, and
feeding her, and cutting about her,
and sliding down her, and l was
telling them she was duck, the
perspiration was running down my
back one moment and cold shivers
the next, and thanked Heavsn de-
voutly when the young gents went
back to their papa and mamma,
and no bones broken. The young
gentleman reported her affability
and my lies to the king, and he en-
gagged her to perform gratis in the
Champs Elysees during the three
days fete. Fifteen hundred francs
for this.
But Huguet was penny-wise and
pound-foolish to agree, for it took
Ler gloss of. Showed her gratis to
half the city.
Among Dicks visitors came one
day pretty young lady, a nursery
goVerness to some nobleman's
children, whose name forget, but
he was English. The children
were highly amused with Dick, and
quite loath to go. The young la
dy, who had a smattering of Eng
lish as / had of French, put sever
al questions to me. l answered
them more polite than usual on ac-
count of her being pretty, and 1
used privilege 1 had and gave
her an order for free admission
some other day. She came, with
only one child, which luckily was
one of those deeply meditative ones
that occur but rarely, and only
brings out word every half-hour ;
SO mademoiselle and 1 had chat,
which I found so agreeable that l
rather neglected the general public
for her. / made it my business to
learn where she aired the children,
and, one vacant morning, dressed
in the top of the fashion, l stood be-
fore her in the garden of the Tuil-
cries. She gave q half-start and a
blush, and seemed very much
struck with astonishment at this
recoUnter. She was little less as
tonished next week when the same
thing happened, but still she
thought these condolences remark
able, and said so. In short, / paid
my addresses to Mademoiselle
-. She was charming bru-
nette from Geneva, greatly my SUI
perior in education and station, /
was perfectly conscious Of this, and
instantly made this calculation
"All the better for me If l can win
her." But the reader knows my
character by this time, and must
have observed how large portion
of it effrOntery forms. l wrote to
her every day, sometimes in the
French language-no, not in the
French language, in French words.
| She sometimes answered in Eng
ish words. She was very pretty
and interesting, and fancied her.
When q man is in love he can hard
ly see difficulties. I pressed her to
marry me and believed she would
consent. When 1 came to this
point the young lady's gayety de-
clined, and when / was painting
her pictures of our coniugal happi-
mass, she used to sigh instead of
Frightening at the picture. At last
pressed her so hard that she consen-
ted to write to Geneva and ask her
parents consent to our union.
When the letter went l was in tow
ering spirits. l was now in tire ze-
NTH of my prosperity. The risk ]
had run with Dick was rewarded
by heavy salary and the post oil
honor near her, and, now that 1 was
q title weary of roaming the world
alone with an elephant, fate had
thrown in my way a charming
companion who would cheer the
weary road.
| Dreams.
The old people at Geneva saw
my position with another eve. "He
is q servant liable to loose his place
at any moment by any one of 8
hundred accidents, and his profes.
sion is discreditable one: why, be
is q Snowman"
They told her this in language
so plain that she would never
show me the letter. was for de.
tying their ADVICE and authority
but she would not besr of it.
was forced to temporize. "In 1
:" onth's time," said I to myself
her scruples will melt away