The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1890-01-17

| mas on ner sabots now, ana IS very neat
| ly dressed
ssMonsieur must know that had an
errand at the Chateau, and so ] could
not bid him farewell as the others said
| they should do at the Auberge Chre-
| tien"
She smiles as she says this and Will
fred believes her, says few kind words,
hopes he shall see her there next year,
climbs back into the diligence, and she
is left standing alone at the gate Of the
Chateau de Tracy. Then, and not till
then, her eyes fiji with tears.
A year goes by, and Wilfred is
once more in Arromanches. Things
have gone well with him mean
WHILE and Eleanor accompanies him
this time. Every one is anxious to see
the wife Of the young American. She
would be very nervous If she knew how
critical are the eyes Of these Norman
villagers who look at her so closely. But
she knows nothing of this, fortunately,
and, without any effort to do so she
wins their hearts as completely as her
husband had done the year before, and
the general verdict is that she is quite
worthy to be the wife Of the young
American. They are walking together
on the sands the morning after their ar
rival. One of the fisher-girls Is return
ing to the village. 1t is Elise, Wilfred
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"See, Elise said Wilfred, gayly,
''here is my wife; she who gave me the
little hook you found last summer"
Elise stops short "IIis wifew She
shivers slightly, although the day Is
warm. She tries to smile, but does not
speak. Wilfred takes her silence for
timidity, but there is look in her eyes
as she gazes from him to Eleanor that
Eleanor understands better than her
husband can.
"My husband has told me of you," she
says, kindly, 'and we are both glad to
see you."
She wins the girl to say few words,
and then they move away, and Elise is
left alone as she was a year ago at the
gate of the Chateau de Tracy, but this
time not even the faintest CLEAN Of
shadowy hope stays with her to brighten
the future. And Wilfred will never
know. The secret was safe with
Eleanor, who read it instantly when she
looked in the eyes of Elise. She is sure
of it when they meet Elise again with
| 4l,< .o,,,e lDoly of du,,b min in bar avao
They leave Arromanches in week or
two and from behind hedge on the
Bayeux road Elise watches their depart
ure. She has never put her thoughts
into words. She is conscious only Of
suffering that she can not help, suffering
that is no ones fault, unless it be fault
to be handsome and kind and -unob-
+, serving
A month after the Averys leave AFRO
manches there reaches him a packet
from Nine. Chretien inclosing some
articles left behind by accident, and in
An accompanying note the writer says
"Monsieur will be grieved to know OF
/ the death of Elise Rigault. 1t was but
day or two after Monsieur and his
wife left Arromanches. 1t is thought
by some that she left one of her nets on
the rocks behind the pLdge, and, going
to look for it at high tide, she may have
fallen on the stones and into the water.
1t was Alphonse Cauchon who found her
there floating in the water, in narrow
place between the rocks, which perhaps
Monsieur remembers. tits very strange
to us at Arromanches, for Elise could
swim, like all the girls who go out with
the nets. 1t may be that the fall on the
rocks made her unconscious, but e bon
Dieu only knows"
"Poor Elisew says WiIfred, pityingly,
and by and by goes out of doors and for
gets.
Poor Elise!' says Eleanor, and when
Wilfred comes back he sees she has been
weeping.
Tender little heart!" he says, weep
ing for one whom you saw but two or
three times, and of whom you know so
little"
And Eleanor is silent. Oscar Fay
Adams, III Christian Union.