Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1888-08-29

while he threw his arm about her
slender waist
"Louisei Louisel N. de LarmieuxI
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 Frenchmsn, who had been
known the night before in a spirit of
capricious and hOt-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 of 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 a passion is unchastened
human nature, which makes the 1898
of history possible, had fiared up In re-
| sponse to it like the powder magazine
III 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-rI citing Philistine
residence was the sNSne OF mad riot
"But what shall we do with him?
But what shall we do with him?''
Frau Won Ulrich kept repeating over
and over again, wringing her hands.
''What shall We do with you, NJ. de
Larmieux?"
~ 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, noI-Victorl'' led Louise,
suspending her light weight to his arm
Her most ponderous parent had already
seized the other.
Never, II. de LarmieuxI You are
my guest l will not let you face those
demonsl They would kill you'll"
'They would tear you limb from
limbp' cried Louise, who had now
broken down completely aud hung, in
perfect abandonment to her love and
. ] SObOAAls
''lf you will let me suggest some
thing, 1 think better course can he
fOund," Cecily put in quietly.
De Larmieux turned quickly toward
her. Her face was as quiet as her
. ! voice. Where all others had lost their
heads she had kept her composure.
at would be quite easy for II. de
LarmieuX to make his escape through
the adjoining houSs by crossing the
well 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. u
De LarmieGx looked at the girl with
! out speaking. But Louise and heI
mother had possessed themselves of the
idea.
Eyes, yesI 1t IS the only course
Miss Leroy is right. 1t is the only
thing to be done. Why did we moi
think Of it before?"
, The people occupying the correspond.
) ing floor in the next house, and whose
back windows, like those of Frau vor
Ulrich, opened on the well or narrow
court, were some minutes in answering
the calls sent across to them. Finally
r the situation was made clear. a rope
not being procurable, some stout
j sheets were firmly knotted together
, and being drawn taunt across from
r window to window, a distance of abou
{ thirteen feet, in two separate but con
r tiguous cords, and fastened with inf
I mite precaution at either end, Victor
e de Larmieux swung himself to the sill
of the window.
! Louise, shrinking down In a heap or
! | the floor, covered her face with he
j hands. She could not look.
/. "Be CAREFUL Oh, be carefull' moan
4 ed her mother.
, "I shall be careful-yes. The doubl
e line of sheets is precaution enough
q Don't be worried, my dear madam
: But 1 am making a very ingloriou
: escape"
!. CecIly Leroy, motionless at the win
e dow, followed each slow, wary move
' ment of the pendant figure hanging b.
C its hands Once she glanced below
d into the bottom OF the stone-pave'
d well three floors down. There was a
d imperceptible quiver of her eyelids.
!. Safely landed in the opposite house
5 De Larmleux struck his head with ;
d sudden thought
This is all very well. But who
q going to make that canaile believe tha
4 I've gotten away and stop the inferna
u racket they're making?"
d ~ WILL" said Cecily, quietly and In
q differently from the other window
y ~ can speak to them They won
X trouble me. 1 shall wait till 1 thin
d you have had time to reach some SAT
+ place. The police must get them Il
Is hand presently in any case"
n She turned away before lie had tim
d to say a word.
II The police had indeed made effort
" to ouell the tumult already, but to
{. many suppressed excitements had GU
I. minated in the onslaught upon tn
d house which harbored the handsom
N anti-Teutonic Frenchman as a guest
le and the crowd, gone mad, had routes
I'D the officers OF the law.
II When De LaImieux found himsel
n five minutes later in the alley which
i planted thick with lindens, formed
" wide. quiet footway between stret
d and street, he turned deliberatel
toward the square. He had not muc
sense of danger in taking this cours'
IN because he knew, as Cecily had known
IN that the chances were that he coul
mingle In the very mob which wa
"a clamoring for his undoing withou
1t being recognized
nt Just as he had become engulfed
ii the heaving mass, q window leading c
3 a balcony on the 6rst floor OF Frau VIC
Of Ulrich's house opened suddenly an
OF Cecily Leroy stepped out. She WI
3. received with q storm Of hooting erie
se and a flying missile grazed her arn
q De Iarmieux could see that she neith'
ns wsyered nor changed color. Some
the leaders Of the disturbance perhaI
in noticed as much
Sc "By Heavenl' said De Larmieux
av himself, while an almost imperceptlp
re lull settled over the front ranks OF u
rioters, "what q womanF Every otn