Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-07-08

There was reason in this advice, and Claudine
followed it.
Presently Amelie, the second, exclaimed.
"But we are just in advance Of Aunt Janet.
Let us stay for her."
"Yes, we will" agreed Felicite, the third;
"Claudine can 60 on with Madame"
ave will all stay" said Mrs. Sidebottom.
"Now, Amelie, have seen your sketches, and
you have your book with you. Is not that
superb view up the gorge, to the right. do
not know the name of the mountain at the
head, What q picture 1t would make, And
finished off with spirit you throw into a draw
ingl See, there is a chalet and some goats for
foreground"
"Cest vrdI will draw it." So Amelie sat
on a rock and got her materials, and the sisters
sat by her talking and advising what was to be
sketch. Meanwhile the conveyance containing
Janet crawied BY The picture was still incom-
plete, and the little party was thrown long
way in the rear by this detention.
To anyone observing the zig-zag road up
the Obelrap Pass from distance, the party
would not have been supposed to possess
homogeneity. At starting it was led by
three-Philip, Salome, ed the American
lady: but after the first stage of the ascent Sa-
lone fell back, then, little by little, the other
two quickened their pace till they had COM
the inclined road, ascending at even pace, was
Salome, alone. At about an equal distance be-
low, on another stage of the zgzag, was the
carriage with Janet and the Captain, and the
driver of whom no account was taken; and
sometimes ahead of the carriage, sometimes be-
hind, making rushes. then halts, like covey
of doves followed by hawk, was the little clus-
ter of girls with Mrs Sidebotrom. From dis
tance at one moment the three girls seemed to
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parasol, which she swung about her head, then
they seemed to cover on the ground into the
herbage as birds beneath swooping falcon.
The reason why Salome was alone must be
given. Before starting on the excursion, Philip
said to his wife, Let me have a minute alone
with that person. I'll make some sort of apol-
ogy, and set all to rights"
Accordingly Salome had dropped back where
the road made its first twist But this does
not explain why she remained alone for more
than the minute. That this may be under
stood, it will be necessary to follow the CONVEX
sation that passed between Philip and 'that
person."
"My wife has found pink" said Philip;
'she is fond of flowers" Then, as Miss Dur
ham said nothing, he added Il afforded you
some amusement at dinner"
"Amusement?'
Apparently. II Is not pleasant to be an
object of criticism. If you desired to punish
me for my indiscretion. you must be satisfied.
You made me very uncomfortable"
Amusement? OH do you mean when
Colonel Yeo. laughed and looked at your saw
you turn red"
Enough to make a man turn red, when
aimed at by the bow and arrow of female lips
and tongue"
"You are quite mistaken" said Miss Durham.
laughing II was not shooting any poisoned
arrow Do you desire to know what said?''
Interest me it must as was the object of
the arrow, even if tipped with honey"
"Very well, you shall know. had seen you
looking at the eagle in his cage. And said to
Colonel Yeo that the eagle reminded me of
you"
Philip WINGED: He remembered his own esti-
mate of that wretched bird.
"And pray" said he, ''why am like the
eagle?"
Because both are in situations for which
neither was designed by nature. Do you sup
pose the eagle looks the draggled, disconsolate
bird he does now when on wing, soaring over
the glaciers? Were his wings made that they
might droop and drop their crushed feathers2
at inqusitive faces peering between them?
Now. come, be open; make me your confessor.
Have you never had yearnings for something
nobler freer, than to be behind the bars of a
counting house, and condemned to the perpet-
ual routine of business like the mill of squir-
rel's eager"
Philip considered. Yes, he had wished for a
less monotonous life. He had often desired to