Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1888-06-25
The Treasure Of FranchaTd.
By ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON.
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CHAPTER VII.

.'.Peue Va oescTiptlon, and tt IL now
nign time that the omission were supplied,
Tor the house is itself an actor IN the story,
and one whose part is nearly at an end Two
stories in height, walls Of q warm yellow.
tiles OF an ancient ruddy brown diversified
with moss and lichen, It stood with one wall
to the street in tho angle of tho doctors
property. II was roomy, draughty and in
convenient. Tho large rafters were here and
there engraven with rude marks and pat
ter1hs; the handrail OF the stair was carved
In countrifed arabesque; o stout timber pil-
lar, which did duty to support the dining
room roof, bore mysterious characters on its
darker side, runes, according to the doctor:
nor did he fail, when he ran over the
legendary history Of the house and its pos-
SCISSORS, to dwell upon the Scandinavian
scholar who had left them. Floors, doors
and rafters had made q great variety Of
angles; every room had particular inclina-
tion: the gable had tilted toward the garden.
after the manner of q leaning tower, and one
OF the former proprietors had buttressed the
building from the side with great strut of
wood, like tho derrick Of o crane, Alto
gether, it had many marks Of ruin; it was a
house for the rats to desert; and nothing
but its excellent brightness-the window
glass polished and shining, the paint well
secured, the brasses radiant, the very prop
all wreathed about with climbing flowers
nothing, but its air of q well tended, smil-
ing veteran, sitting, crutch and all in the
sunny corner Of garden, marked it as q
nouse ior eolnlor1aole people 10 inhabit. In
o. ,o, VI iu,e management ~ would soon have
Asit was tho wbola sen;iu ,n,'eS !. '. s ueay.
doctor was nava, hot,or ;v,,s;,ss 49, .Au suo
he narrated its imaginarv eto.,, aSs ,,. .nen
the character of its snccass;,.o ,,,,s. ~. NV ..eW
the Hebrew merchants who had ra s,,;s.a vn. ~.
walls after the sack of Tho tovn .,S -. Az ,.s
mysterious enpraver or tho r,,nas 49,, -. 'o ~
the long headed dirty bardad -. -.
whom he had himself oconirei n A. q r,,;non.
expense. As for any alarm abont ;ts eocr,.it,-
the idea had never presentea ;tsalf w.
had stood for centuries mipbt we'll endrra
little longer.
Indeed. In this narticp,or ,v;r.., .,...
the finding and LOSING ~ tho trao.,,,. ~" az.
Desnrezes had a, onviots 30 . ,,o,,,, a;R,e s.ie
order. and one which Law neorer th.;r honr..
Jean Marie was nlainlv not h;n,snIe -,
fits of hectic activity when bo rnado ,,n,,s,,ai
exertions to please snoka mora ana faStar
and redoubled bis attent;on to h;s ,asso,.'
But these wera interr,n,ad hv .raIa -
me,ancbolia md hrood;na s;,.noo -. AZ,
bow was little better thar nnhea rob,a
NSilepce " the doctor ,norol;zod u,,o,, 49,.
Anastasie. what comes Of s;Ionca ia 49,
boy properly unbosomed bimseIf tha I;ttie
disappointment abopt the treas,,ro tha iitti,
ANNOYANCE about Cosimirs inciv;,ity ,ra,,,S
long ago have been forgottan A. ~ T. tha,.
prey upon him like a disease He ,osoS easI
nS appe,i'e Is variaole' anu or .he whoieS
h.ep mn VI. .ne s'i t.Ies. ' Iesr
,' men eNniu'' 'no i''o'' powerful 'on'es'
Doh you 'nlnk you orue iiii, ,o' Iluch'
s,na, ".,n ., an 'ess'oe 'nuuuei'
.ieu 'ie n uoo'oi' o'us' ANA
s'nsie, ,ou are maui go 80,
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slo"iS ueeii .,,', uo uoc.o, uiailieo Ine
1''n "nien "us eo,u s' anu ooie1eious ne
sal'eu s ~ ~, eoiiie'e rom ooulIon, 'ooh
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""o pie'o, oooii .nue1 ''ea.i"en' iihaeh
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,,sas 81 ~ =; o;. fa' .r. - s,. ao
.rato,' j., h.na ..Tha,n :, ,,o.i,;,S, ,i,,o ' a.
,ar;tu " ho would cav an ont tha dnSes 81
diiat. ON tha ,I;rt,as 80 ,ha ara,,bt' o,a 70
the how seemed nome tbe hattar 1be doctor
was not ot ali tho worsa
Cnnnouder dav tba ho,, ,,,os ,ort;o,,.r,v
low II was scowling snualiv yvsathar
hroly apia ~ cIp Ial
swiftly overhead. railing o,a,ms of srnIiaht
swent the VILLAGE and were followed hv In.
teryals Of darkness and white avino rain
A. times the wind Iifted nm its yoica and hei.
lowed The trees vera ali scourging them
selves along the meadows the last leaves f,v-
inc like dust The Doctor batwean tbe how
and the weather. was in his element. he had
a tbeorv to prove He set with bis watch
ont and a borona,er in front of him w.it;r,
for the SQUALLS and noting their effect upon
the human pulse. "For the true philosopher
he remarked delightedly. 'eyery fact in ma
ture is tow A letter came to him, but as
its arrival conceded with the approach of
another gust he merely crammed it into his
pocket. gave the time to Jean Marie, and the
next moment they were both counting their
pulses as if for wager
At nightfall the wind rose into a tempest.
1t besieged the hamlet, apparently from
every side, as if with batteries of cannon; the
houses shook and groaned; live Goals were
blown upon the floor The uproar and terror
of the night kept people long awake sitting
with palld faces giving ear.
Il wns 10 before the Desprez family retired.
Rv1 10 when the storm was already some.
what past its height, the doctor was awak-
ened from troubIed slumbsr, and sat nm A
noise still rang in his ears, but whether of
this world OF the world of dreams he was not
certain. Another clap of wind followed. It
was ACCOMPANIED by a sckening movement
of the whole house. and in the subsequent
Iull Desprez could hear the tiles pouring like
a cataract into the loft above his head. He
plucked Anastasie bodily out of bed.
"Run,n he cried, thrusting some wearing
epparel into her hands: .the house is fallingi
To the gardenr,
She did NOT pausa 20 be twice hidden. she
,ros doyn the stair in an instant She baa
never before SUSPECTED herself of such actiy-
ity. The doctor meanwhile, with the speed
81 a niece Of nantomime business and unde.
,orrad hy broken sbins nroceeded To ropt ont
Jaan.Marie tore Aline from her virgin slum-