The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1880-03-24
REMEMBER.
A Piquant Adventure.
From the Parisian.i

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be found by you again tomorrow, and
while proposing that you should go to
my apartment, in order to talk more at
our ease, | can only take you On one
condition"
"Whichw
"That you allow yourself to be blind
folded as soon as we are in the cab, and
that you swear upon you honor not to
take off the bandage till I allow YOU; in
this way shall be able to see you again,
not when you please, but when / please,
for you shall never know my address,"
I Ihe adventure was becoming piquant
and romantic, in different manner from
the ordinary adventures that men meet
with at the Opera balls. The masked
lady was evidently no vulgar milkmaid
or "bayardere" from Breda's easy
heights.
Julien was still romantic; he had only
been married two years.
"It is cruel" he replied.
"Do you hesitatew
"No; but still"
ri have known you more determined"
II accept the conditions. Let us co."
They.left the foyer to the great delight
Of the unknown observers, who burst out
laughing when they saw de Beauvoir
! cary off his conquest.
Julien and the domino entered car
riage, which started off at rapid pace at
once. Without saying word the mask
took long silk scarf from around her
neck and blindfolded Julien SO carefully
that he could not see thing.
At the end of twenty minutes the car
riage stopped. A door opened. The
mask took Julien by the hand and
guided him up two flights of stairs, then
down ten steps and up again. Finally
Julien found himself in a comfortable
armchair.
Gam / in your rooms?" he asked of the
domino.
eyes; take off your bandage."
"What, no lightr
"What would be the goodT'
eOhl a lamp, candle, a night light,
what ever you like; but little light. 1
have kept my promise, recompence my
loyalty by allowing me to contemplate
those features, which l recognized under
your mask"
"Let us remain as we are, I pray you"
"Why these precautions?"
"Do you not know what risk I am
runningT
eyes! yes" replied Julien. "No mat
ter! Why write to me if it was to hide
your glorious countenance srom me and
to envelope yourself in inpenetrable
mystery%
ut must be so," replied the maskod
lady, in voice that admitted no discus.
sion.
'"She is a prude," thought Julien to
himself; ."but what does that matter?
She is charming, has sweet voice, pear
ly teeth, and that vague something which
only real ladies do possess. Under the
fringe Of her mask / saw a sweet little
mouth, and a complexion that can only
belong to woman of twenty-five at the
very outside. Let us accept the situation
and make the best Of it."
Selling the hand of his masked COM
panion, Julien resumed their CONVERSE
in a more tender key"
"You don't know how longed to see
you again!' have so often thought of
you"
"Ahl I, too, have thought often Of
you"
Dear" replied de Beauvoir, but not
not finding any substantive to join to
his adjective he hesitated, and then:
"Dear--heart."
"But you are married."
This was indeed a bucket Of cold wa
ter. Julien started.
"Ah! you know that?" he said.
eyes, and I was in doubt at first
whether you would reply to my note, for
/ have been told that your wife is charm
ing"
''She is, indeed, good woman"
"Ahp exclaimed the mask.
Then brusquely:
\, ~, too, am a good woman"
"Good. Oil do not doubt it. Asgood
as you are beautiful"
81 am married"
"Ahp exclaimed Julien.
ri am very unhappy, for my husband
is traitor who deceiyes and abandons
me-"
"Ohl the monsterw said Julien, slyly.
"Poor little womanP
"Que voulez-vousT 1t is no use cry
ing over split milk. And you-are you
happyT
II? Do not ask me. I am mere peb-
bic tossed to and fro by conjugal storms.
30 we must revenge ourselves"
'Do you think so~ asked the mask in
Rchanged voice.
II am certain Of it."
s'Perhaps you are right, for it is terri
Bile to deceive woman like me, is it
not?'
Terrible? 1t ia horrible"
There was silence. The decisive mo-
ment was approaching, for Julien's last
remnants of remorse were vanishing with
alarming rapidity.
He took the young woman's hand
again, in spite of the severity with which
he had Withdrawn it, and pressing it in
his own, he continued:
UyUI,ot a ooft houdt What q oh .,,, no.