Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1883-07-14
CHAPrERaXXVIII.
JEALOUSY.

riage with man she had once pr
fessed TO hate, and from whom |
had saved her.
She was accompanied by tn
Marquise de Saint SJean, of Whol
the old Princess of Potsdam ha
said significantly: "She is one {
u.s." and on whom she had express
J ed her reliance TO bring lnez 81
her senses" is to marry tn
prince. His eyes met those {
1nez coldly, and he said, in sarcas
tic way:
You came in search of me, yo
say. 1t was a strange road yo
took, through the Prussian lines. ]
is plain, madame, that you regre
the romance of the village church
and prefer the luxury of a palace t
the quarters of a simple colonel. B
it so. You are free to depart TO Bel
lin, if you WISH"
Inez burst into tears. She SCENE,
to be shocked: angry, ashamed, ant
burst out 4:
"How can you be so cruel?
don't wish to go to Berlin"
"Then madame, in the name O
honor, l demand that you return Il
i Paris at once" said Gabriel sternly
''Is this a place for Il lady, in th'
midst of the armies in campaign
Return at once"
81 am ready, monsieur" she an
swered, her face flushing deeply anC
resentfully. "You shall not have
cause to reproach me again for my
anxiety, L can assure you"
She sunk back in the carriage
and the marquise, who had beer
looking pale and anxious during
the whole colloquy, interposed ner'
vously:
"But how can we get back tc
Paris The roads are full of the
enemy, all ihe way to Cassel."
81 will send an escort with you,
and you shall 60 through our lines,
not those of our enemies was GabrI-
els reply.
Then he called up Casse Tete and
gave him directions to accompany
the carriage on the road to Wurtz-
burg aud not TO leave it till it had
crossed the French frontier.
"After that" he said pOintedly to
Inez, 81 do not claim to control
your movements as d FrenchWOm-
an but when the campaign is over,
if return alive, l shall do myself
the honor of waiting on her majesty
the Empress of the French, if she
will grant me an audience, to ask
after the health of -Mademoiselle
de Real"
She cast on him glance in which
pride and anger seemed to be Strug-
Cling with some other feeling, and
replied:
livery well, monsieur. You may
not find the lady of whom you speak
in Paris, and then you may be sorry
for your words"
$50 be it," he said haughtily.
Then he remOunted his horse and
sat in the midst of field, while the
carriage moved off on the back road,
and while his captains were roar
ranging the disOrdered SquadrOnS.
He did not know that Inez was
watching him through the window
as long as the carriage remained in
sight, and that, when 1t turned into
the wood, she sunk into a corner,
murmuring:
"Oh, if he only knew I"
But he was too full of bitter Jealous
anger to think otherwise of lneZ
but rs faithless to him; and his
whole soul seemed now absorbed in
one desire, to find and killthe Prince
of Potsdam.
AS soon rs his men had been
gathered up again, he detached
squadaOn at a trOt after the fleeing
enemy, hoping to find them rallied
somewhere, and followed with the
whole regiment, not regarding the
danger he ran, 50 long as he came
up with his enemy and met him
man to man.
But, though they pushed on for
three hours they found no trace of
a halt, while the fragments OF weap-
ons and accouterments that strewed
the road showed that the enemy
were very much demoralized by
their surprise; and it was late in
the afternoon when he at last came
in full view of them at Eisenach.
And then what sight he saw!
Instead of u single regiment OF
cuirassiers, as he expected, there
was large force of infantry, caval-
airy and artillery, drawn up in line
of battle, and apparently awaiting
an attack.
He had run right into the pres
ence of the first Prussian, forty
thousand strong, with handful of
men. Had he ventured such an
exploit with the Austrians, they
would nave cut him off to certain
ty.
But these Prussians, he noticed,
seemed like wooden soldiers in their
stiffness and immobility; and when
he sent all his men out to the right
and left, behind the shelter of hill,
and caused them to make their APP
pearance suddenly in a skirmish
line three miles long, the Prussian
guns opened Il furious cannOnade on
the woods and fields in front, think
ing. that the whole French army
was coming down on them.
No damage was done to anything
but the trees and banks, and rs soon
as our hero had accomplished his
purpose, to impress the enemy
with Il false belief, he Withdrew his
men.
Not before he had seen, through
the glass, a courier dashing wildly
ON the road to Weimar, to carry
the news OF the supposed French at
tack.
Then he collected his men and
rode back at rapid pace toward
the place he had left the day before,
satisfied that the Prussians were
blindly into the trap pre-
pared for them by the genius of the
Emperor of the French.
This trap was nothing less than
10 induce them to advance toward !
the French frontier at Coblenz and
leave open the roads to Berlin, |
while the French army really ad-
from Bavaria on the South |
and cut in between the Prussians
and their capital, at or about the |
village of Jena.
And Gabriel I.enOir, with the
Deaths Head CuiraSsiers, was part |
of the bait set to draw the Prussians |
forward.
The sun set before he had gone |
ten miles on his road back to the |
army; but the full moon allowed |
him TO see the way, and he Travelled
all night.
In the early morning they met
the French cavalry Outposts, i'm the
midst of the forest of Thuringia,
and Gabriel Lenoir was able TO re-
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