, 1888-09-23

paraded the streets, avowing their determi.
nation to live and die as Frenchmen, andInot
as Spaniards. The council met, and deciding
to fling the gauntlet In the face of the Span
ish monarch, allowed Unoa and his house
hold three days in which to leave the city.
Tn Spanish flag was trampled under foot,
women and children rushed frantically for
ward and kissed the posts on which were
streaming the banners of France. And the
livelong day there was but one cry of "a
has lEspagnolI Vive Louis lie Quinzer'
The French Governor Aubry, Drawing the
populace, escorted Governor UIloa and his
household to a Spanish frigate in front of the
city. A band Of armed men marched to the
river, singing patriotic songs, and one of
them, drawing his sword, cut the rope which
held the vessel fast to its moorings. 1t floated
down the stream, mid the e~xultant shouts of
Long live Louis the Fifteenth, the incom-
parable monarch, the image of God on GARTH
The council hastened to draw up another
petition, pleading for the resembling of the
cession to Spain.
Amid the crowds that surrounded the gov
ernor's house it was impossible for the cheva-
her to see Runa. He had determined if vio-
lence were resorted to to save her at the
sacrifice of his own life; but tho GOODNESS of
the French governor had prevented blood
shed and he had no doubt that ere the three
days would elapse he would nave an oppor-
tunity of seeing her on the vessel; his friend
ship with Aubry made this hope doubly sure.
But when he heard that the frigate had been
sent down the stream, he turned with a weary
heart from the exciting throng and took the
path toward the old spot where he had SO
often met Runa-thes spot henceforth SO dear
TO hlm. He folded his arms and walked abb
stractedly along. Far off in the distance
came that deafening, inconsistent cry of the
people, Long live Louisl Long live the
well beloved" He, too, would have Joined
in that cry had Runa been near.
The man who carries within him a love of
scientific investigation and sympathy with
nature in all its varying phases is seldom at a
loss for companionship. He towers above
the great mass of humanity even Us the oak
above the striplings of the forest. To him
all things are voiced spirits; the trees, the
stars, the birds, the flowers; the ocean when
dashed by the storm god; the rivulet that
sings along its hidden path; the grandest and
most minute objects touch a responsive
chord in his sympathetic soul, raising him
as 1t were above himself, causing him ever
TO feel the mysterious omnipresence and ON
niscience of the Author of all. Such a one
was the Chevalier de st. Gervaise. To him
nature was a vast book, stamped with the
signature of the Creator, and Runa was its
fairest page. He now felt as though he had
been reading a beautiful chapter, and coming
TO the most Interest," portion found the
leaf missing.
He wandered alo7; .. / from sheer inabil-
ity to think or to ac., followed the course of
a bird winging its flight aloft. Presently
again his eyes turned earthward and there,
advancing through the wood, still in the
white robe in which he had first seen her,
with her dark hair floating around her and
the golden sim upOp ba- hOcp1, uos D,,ao
How long she had been there, how escaped
from her companions and evaded the vigil
ance of the French guards, he paused not to
query. He only knew that she was there.
and he fastened joyously to meet her. She
fell at his feet with one cry, "The earth has
no home for the Peruvian maidp
And he answered, 'Runa, thou art beauti-
ful as the rainbow, thou art fair as the sun
rise, and my heart throbs for thee, and my
spirit bids me tell thee that in this bosom
thou shalt find a homer"
BE bent to raise her, but she moved NOT.
he felt her pulse, it was still; he placed his
hand above her heart, it huttered an instant
and then ceased to beat.
What followed became a part of the his
tory of the country. Louis again repudiated
all claim to the colony. Spain established
her authority and maintained it flor onward
OF thirty years, when, after again changing
hanos' Louisiana became a part Of that great
commonwealth which rivals in system and
equity all the civil establishments that have
ever existed. Today she stands among her
sister states, with a past OF which she may
be proud, and looking forward to a future
from which she has much to expect. Neither
under French nor Spanish domination could
she have reached this glorious end; for she
was as the historian observes: "a gift never
intended for kings to keep."-Marie l. Points
In New Orleans Picayune.