The Penn's Grove record., 1888-09-01

while he threw his arm about her
slender waist
"Louisel Louisel M. de Larmieuxl
Do come out Of that rooml" cried poor
Frau Won Ulrich, too terrified to take
note Of the improperly Of the attitude
Into which her daughter and the young
Frenchman had been surprised toward
each other.
The smouldering wrath Of the mob
seemed to have burst with the throw.
ing of those few stones into ungovern-
able fury. They had probably no very
evil intentions or fixed designs Of mis-
chief when they assembled before the
house which sheltered the reckless
young Trenchmsn, who had been
known the night before In a spirit Of
capricious and h~0t-headed bravado to
have made some wildly patriotic utter
ances in a public place with others.
contemptuous of the Germans around
him. But the first sight CT real out
rage. the first taste Of license, mounted
to their heads like wine. The shiver-
ing OF that first window was like the
red flag to the bull. That latent
bestiality of q passion is unchastened
human nature, which makes the 1I93
of history possible, had Jared up In re-
Spouse to it like the powder magazine
in response to the lighted match. In
five minutes the dull little square in
front Of Frau Won Ulrich's quietly i'm
posing and self-rf citing Philistine
residence was the s.one Of a mad riot.
"But what shall we do with himP
But what shall we do with himP"
Frau Won Ulrich kept repeating over
and over again, wringing her hands.
"What shall we do with you, N. de
Larmieuxp"
ST must insist upon you letting me
show myself to these people," the
young man responded. "My dear
madam, pray-pray, do not detain me.
l cannot allow these devils to deface
your house in this manner, not to speak
of the fact that you do not know what
they may do next. 1t Is not possible.
Please let me go"
"No--oh, no!-Victorp cried Louise,
suspending her light weight to his arm.
Her most ponderous parent had already
seized the other.
"Never, M. de Larmieuxi You are
my guest. 1 Will not let you face those
demonsl They would kill youp
"They would tear you limb from
limbl' cried Louise, who had now
broken down completely and hung, in
perfect abandonment to her love and
her terror, sobbing on his shoulder.
'tIf you will let me suggest some-
thing, I think a better our can be
found" Cecily put in quietly.
De Larmieux turned quickly toward
her. Her face vas as quiet as her
voice. Where all others had lost their
heads she had kept her composure.
SIT would be quite easy for NJ. de
Larmieux to make his escape through
the adjoining houss by crossing the
we'll on a plank, or by suspending a
rope from one window to the other.
The next house opens at the back on
an alley. That is deserted. Probably
not more than one man out of fifty out
there knows him by sight. By walking
quietly away in an opposite direction
from the mob he will pass unnoticed."
De Larmieux looked at the girl with
out speaking. But Louise and her
mother had possessed themselves Of the
idea.
"Yes, yesl 1t Is the only counsel
Miss Leroy Is right. It is the only
thing to be done. Why did we not
think of it beforep"
The people occupying the correspond
ing floor in the next house, and whose
back windows. like those Of Frau Won
Ulrich, opened on the well or narrow
court. were some minutes in answering
the calls sent across to them. Finally
the situation was made clear. A rope
not being procurable, some stout
sheets were firmly knotted together,
and being drawn taunt across from
window to window. a distance Of about
thirteen feet, in two separate but con-
tiguous cords, and fastened with inf
mite precaution at either end. Victor
de Larmieux swung himself to the sill
of the window.
Louise, shrinking down in a heap on
the floor, covered her face with her
hands. She could not look.
"Be CAREFUL Oh, be carefull'' moan
ed her mother.
81 shall be careful-yes. The double
line of sheets is precaHtion enough.
Don't be worried, my dear madam.
But l am making a very inglorious
escape"
Cecily Leroy, m~otionless at the win
dow. followed each slow, wary move
ment of the pendant figure hanging by
its hands Once she glanced below
into the bottom OF the stone-paved
we'll three floors down. There was an
imperceptible CULVER of her eyelids.
safely landed in the opposite house,
H. Tovn~ ofruak hIl hond with a
sudden thought.
This is all very we'll. But who is
going to make that canaile believe that
I've gotten away and stop the Internal
racket they're making2"
II WILL" said Cecily, quietly and In
differently from the other window.
81 can speak to them. They won't
trouble me. I shall wait till I think
you have had time to reach some safe
place. The police must get them in
hand presently in any case"
She turned away before lie had time
to say a word.
The police had indeed made efforts
to quell the tumult already, but too
many suppressed excitements had Gull
minated in the onslaught upon the
house which harbored the handsome
anti Teutonic Frenchman as a guest,
and the crowd, gone mad, had routed
the officers of the law.
When De Larmieux found himself
Eve minutes later in the alley which,
planted thick with lindens, formed u
wide, quiet footway between street
and street, he turned deliberately
toward the square. He had not much
sense of danger in taking this course.
because he knew. as Cecily had known,
thas the chances were that he could
mingle in the very mob which was
clamoring for his undoing without
being recognized.
Just as he had become engulfed in
the heaving mass, a window leading on
a balcony on the drst floor Of Frau o
UIrich's house opened suddenly and
Cecily Leroy stepped out. She was
received with a storm Of hooting cries.
and a flying missile grazed her arm.
De Larmieux could see that she neither