The Arkansaw traveler., 1884-07-26

 anoeAer time only twelve sous (sAe cried with pain and humiliation to cfSer se little, but business had been very bad that year, and the last time i've francs. a great big round silver-piece which made him langh with delight when he saw tt.
 She could think of nothing else but him and he used 70 watch for Ter re- turn with certain impa,ience, and even run to meet her when he saw her, so that the little girl's heart bounded for Joy.
 Then all at orce he disappeared. He had been sent to college. She found it out by shrewdly questioning. Then, by dins of infinite diplomacy, she tried to change the regular itinerary of her par ents, so tha, they might stop al this vii- lage just about vacation time. She sue ceeded but it took her q whole years rusing to do it. Then she Sremained two whole years without seeing him; and when she saw him again, she hardly knew him, SO tall and handsome he had be- come. and 90 elegant he looked in his students iunic, with gil, buttons. He presended not to see her, and walked haughtily by.
 She cried about i, for two whole days and from that time she suffered wi,hou, intermission.
 Every year she came back 10 the yii- lage: passed him by in the stree, without dari.g to salute him. and wi,hou, his condescending even 10 turn his eyes ,o- ward her. She loved him madly. She said to me: He is the only man ever saw in this world. Monsieur; did no, even seem 10 know whether any other man existed.'
 Her parents both died She continued their business but she kept two dogs. instead of one-;wo terrible dogs ,ha, nobody would dare to interfere with
 One day. on her annual return 10 ,his village in which she had Jeff her heart. she saw young woman leaving Chou quet's drug store on the arm of her lover l, was his wife He was married.
 That same nigh; she threw herself into the deep pond which IS before he Place de Ia Marie. 4 drunken man. who was getting home later than usual, saw her, hshed her out, and carried her to the drug store. The younger Choa9ues came down stairs in his dressing-sswn 10 a,- tend her: and without seemirg 10 know her he undressed her, applied frie,ions. administered stiE ulants, and then said 10 her in very harsh voice: You are crazy mustn't play .he fool like that
 He had spoken to her Tha, alone was enough to cure her. II made her happy for ever so long.
 He refused to take any money for his services, although she insisted on paying him as well as she could.
 And all her life passed away in the same manner. While nending her chairs she though, of nothing but Choaque,. Every year she saw hir. behind the glass windows of his drug store She made a practice of buying little stocks of drugs and medicines from hir,. Thus she could sometimes be near him, and speak to him, and enjoy ,he pleasure of still giving him money.
 Well, as told you before. she died this spring. And after she had told me he, whole sad story, she begged me to carry to the man she had so patiently loved the entire savings of her life of tify-two years labor for she had worked only for him, she said-of,en fasting in order to be able to lay trifle of money by, so tha, she might be sure he would one day think of her, al least once in awhile, alter she was dead.
 50 she gave me two thousand three hundred and twenty-seyen francs. handed the priest the twenty-seven francs for the burial expenses and took the remainder cf the money home as soon as she had breathed her last.
 Next day stepped over to ,he Chou quet drugstore. The Chouquess had just breakfasted, sitting opposite one another al table; they were s:oa:. ::h: cund, important, and self-sa,;shed, and a smell of drugstore perfumes hovered all around them.
 They made me take chair, offered me glass of kirsch-wasser, which ac- cepted and l began my discourse in a pathetic voice-feeling sure they were both going to weep.
 But no sooner did he learn that was speaking of that chair-mender. ,ha, beg gar, that tramp, that vagabond, than Chouquet bounded from his seat with in- dignation. as if she had robbed him of his reputation, of the esteem of all respecta- ble people, of his family honor, of some thing SO delicate that he esteemed l. more highly than life itself.
 And his wife, fully as exaspera,ed as himself, could do nothing but repeat |" Oh. that beggar. that beggar. tha, beggarw without finding anything else to say.
 Chouquet, after leaping 10 his feet, be- gan 10 stride furieusly up and down the yoou on the other side Of the table. his Greek cap hanging down over one ear. He stuttered out: IL is simply impossible to understand how such things can hap pen. doctor? Here is horrible thing, a horrible thing for any respectable man Now what can do? Oh. if l had only knosn this thing daring her life time would have had her slammed into jail, the dirty tramp. and she would no, have got out again, SO easily, let me tell you"'
 was absolutely stupehed by this un- forseen result of my kindly mission. did not know vhat ID do oY whzf to xzv