Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1889-03-01
ONE NIGHTS WORK.

guileless as child and just justicel With
all this the figure Of Hercules and slave TO
his duty and to his instructions
He had served through 1879 as brigadier
Of cuirasiers, been left for dead in the midst
Of the hop fields of Reichsoffen. and, cured
BY the Prussians, had returned to France
when peace was declared TO be passed into
the gendarlnerie, thanks to his congo. free
from the slightest punishment
Decorated with the medal, be had for long
time awaited promotion TO the grade of mare
chal des logis, the marechalat of his hopes
and dreams He was scarcely, they had
thought so at least. well enough educated to
dictate a proces-verbal: then they suspected
that his intelligence was a little bounded but
be was 50 gallant a soldier, 50 honest a man,
that at last in is, and when nearly 4Oyears
Of age, he saw himself granted the double
stripe of silver and dispatched with four
other men TO the Belgian frontier to watch
the contrabandists and assist with his strong
hand the custom house officers.
Il was happy day for him when he saw
himself installed in the little house that
served as barracks and stood at the end of
the village II had two chambers and a
room on the lower floor for an Office. and he
was chef of the detachment 1t was ideal.
He waxed and twisted to a sharper point tlan
ever the ends of his tremendous mustache,
and redoubled the zeal and punctuality of
his service.
Before a month had gone he WIS the terror
and bugbear Of all the smugglers and their
trains of dogs taught to cross the lines with
laces and tobacco In six months time he
had purged the entire country. One only of
his enemies continued TO brave him and to
battle by force of craft and skill his track
nd trio
There was dweller in the village itself
certain Antoire Piou, as blonde and thin as
the marechal des logis was brown and heavy,
but very genteel with his curling hair, adrot
and cunning as monkey, and endowed with
lungs and legs of steel that permitted him to
laugh to scorn the stoutest horse in the cav
airy.
He and his ferocious bulldog Etranne-in
the pronunciation of the country Aytran-
glay-had more than once slipped through the
fingers, so to speak, of the brave Alcides and
his massive nag, and more than once Etranne,
that is, had left the print of his fangs in his
shoulder. 1t was a duel to the death between
the three and u beautiful and lasting hate
The one of them scorned with all the
strength and dlsiain of the colossus the eff
Terminate lean one whom he could have
crushed between his ten fingers, the other
disdained with all the scorn of a coxcomb
and a strutting dandy the stupii giant
whom he fooled so easily into believing that
bladders were lanterns. and as if to round
off their detestation. both of them maid their
court 10 the same village maiden.
Mile Adelaide Fournaim was her name
md bor ,,rapts two worthy noorIa lent n
EttIc cabaret very much frcoiented almost
uitb;r e;e,bt of tho nost of tho pandar,n.,;.
Iaida nc sb. was called nv every ono yvos d,
beautiful pirl delicate and slender as n hlos-
som n sort Of Marouerite pushed forth from
tho ste,, Of i, corn 0ower Won sbouId inst
b,vo soo, bor il, hor l;ttla ,nror trinnin,,
hact and forth 70 serve the sunday dinners
of the eros bonnets of the neigbborhood
NIL Mari. himself oven din NOT disdoin
mon those DAYS 10 take her bv tbe chm and
cn,rn,i,part ho, on hnr ,.b,rpi,,r onne,rarca
J.ido uos NO, only, hoortif,,I bnt ,,ou.t,,sh
owl ,ro,d ard t,,r,.d a daaf a,,. 10 Tho
oa,'rtr,, IA n,hl, Ill hora toItad TO har
~ narr;ara All I mean hut Antoino pion
tho contrsh,ndist and friend of nor child
boo1 uith yho,, sba b,d learned ha. c.ta.
nhis,r NJ IacIra,s 80 anJ ,ic;das O.
tahni- th,, handSn,,a sa,'s.,'sI;lar ava cow
,nand,rt Of the renJarmer;o
As for bin Aicides bo wos nc Ibor.told
,-o, -. I ,at,,, H., a;i,,,,o,,,
- ell, 81 ~ L., H.. - .,,,,;-,a.;--.,
of ono ,,no,, rayy ero,nd Ero,,, tha n,,la
toh,o ,bara bo CO of,o, OTTO bic ,,odast ,,,,,ost
~ L;e, ro,,,,a o,os ,o,,,d os Int, haIs -,
n,,;tta5 har foy a seannd ne sbo ca,,,a and
Wont and his ,rust ache ou;vered deS,,i,a its
wor;n% nc sha soid 70 hi,n in hor Low sof,
&C..
..Ro, ;orr NJ A,cdes and how oro rou
todayr,
~ no., .,,,,,, t,co,,,o ,,,,a ,ho,,. hor. L.,
,,-oi1 -, ,L,.,,,-,, - 49,. 81 e. 60
hor a,d ,,,ora tha, tha+ Iad naarI, far,,o,-
ta,, ,ha ssr,.;co aad ,,, aron,ions Of ;sci,,7;r,
sor IaiIa,s soIa Ia,., .anJn,.s a,,a Ill
tIa,, ea, al A,o;das ,,oi.har Gnu. ny, taai,
oaco,,,t 81 ,h s,','1,,,
in tho ronrnai, eahorat ,hom- !, ,yos trns
49, ,,ho,,a,.or 10 a,,,,ao,.i -. 1a
nort.d almost ;n,,adia,al,,
Thu il saon,s -, M. sho,, have ,,odo hin,
raeoc+ br+ no ,,-,s 49, 81 tho o1,,,,r,, 20,
soa and Ala uat ~, ,hat oi1a "a H..
oo,'+raho,,5;., h.d 49,, ~, - ' ,ta.
had -, IT, s,th ho, ~ .n..
iooilsd mon ne ber s,,ocial aaiI,nt and ~,
uoi,oa ~ 1,ao,, ~ So.
of tho ducas., ,,pJer Tho o,,,s If tho r;lla9o
oreen ord I,.t ~ oil tl,.t 10 tho, ,,.o,,, nc,
hetrotbeJ Iote,.e il WINS ha.,,,so ,ba f,thor ~
Ioido wo,,ld not ,,ivo his consent
NJ AIciIo. INV, ,ana - III o,,a -. s,,,
NO ba could ,,o,cror bis ,i,n;d;.,, s,a,,on.i,,
declared HE dnsira ~ Il sIn ,,.o,,iS
b,yo bi,,-,t orca IT, yo,,r,, rr;r, -,
w.rdlv e.ttored hi,sbod joo,I,s h,,t ,.as
silent and scanned ,rofoundl, trnnI,,od
"And viii vou do tbis ,,,domoisoIIay, nom
TIMED Alcidos ~ Io,,a ,o,, e., ,,,,,nI. ~,
be GOOD to Won - and the ,narechaI dos Io,-;s
..Ii;. IN, -, -. ,oei'
ahove the chair mon which sbo Gin 60, anI
without resnonse
IL do ~ t,,or,, che s,is -. ,.u. AZ.
world be beet Ia sneol, 70 NV fo+bor
The father arnroacbed that same o,,oo;no.
did not hesitate at oil S.z;ng i, bis ~
ronob noIm the brca white olo,,o tho. in
closed the hond of tho ,,sndarp,e h. ,.,;ad out
delicbtofilv.
p ora,,,, al. ,.r
oive vou nv o;dc COL 49,, M 80,
Damei NJ Alcides tbree dangh+o,,s or CIV
dauobters if Won willard had tbor, TO
give you,r
..R,,t ,h.+ bovordoa .h, ,o,.o. ,,,.,,a-.,..
utbot would ha cor,ror,, r., ,or mi, ~
will answer
A n,o,,+b ,o,or th, ,v.d,i,,, tool. ,,ooo ,.,
in the eveninr after n renast at Which r tho
whole VILLAGE assisted NJ and Nina Costo.
bois denarted for the LITTLE bnnso ~ Tho Gov
darner;e vreo,bed and decorotsd 1ita a
bower nv tho men of the det,cb,nopt
R,t at tho verv n,o,na,,t -, ;noiosirx .ho,,,