The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1890-01-17

have told them Of her also.
One day ne loses a little keepsake
that she gave him-a small gold eye
glass hook--and all the youngsters in
Aroma inches scamper about on the
pEIgs the whole morning in search OF IL
fer him. But they fail to find IL, and
Wilfrcd feels n little veXcd over the
loss, for he remembers we'll the foolish
little talk, foolish yet so sweet, when she
first fastened it upon his coat, months
before Nine. Chretien takes q personal
interest in her lodger, like every one
else in A-romanches, and is quite dis
tressed 70 hear Of his loss-
''But what would you?' she says
Every one must lose something in the
course Of his life, and when IL IS not one
thing il is sure TO be another. The
week before Monsieur came she lost a
silver pin that she had had for twenty
years, and about the same time her
cousin n -. Aubin lost his best COW,
and SO 10 was, and she was very sorry for
monsieur, but what would you2 II one
did not lose things sometimes perhaps
one might be happier than Ee BON Di-,,
intcndcd-who knows?7 WiIfrcd laughs
softly ro himself AT this DIT Of phiIoso-
phy. and madame hastens into the inn
yard 10 speak 10 Pauline, the maid, who
is cl2ctcring about the pavement in her
wooden shoes, quite forgeuful, appar-
emily, that il viii soon be time 20 serve
the dinner The look of vCxation re-
turns 70 Wilfred's face when ne is alone.
Il would rather lose almost any thing
else ne says 20 himself just then
there is a knock at the glass door of his
room, which opens upon the gallery en-
circling the 0uJTge on the inner or
courtyard side. 4 tall, good-iooBing
fishor-girl stands there bare-footed and
ba-c-lcgEcd. holding in her hand the
missing eyeglass hook
''Is il this which Monsieur has lost?"
she says, somewhat timidly. Wilfred
eagerly responds that it is.
Il found IL on the plrrs but now
says the girl. las l was coming back 70
the cliff with my net Alphonse
CauchCu, IL was he who said ID me that
the American Monsieur at the Auberge
Chrctien had lost IL, and Monsieur VIII
see that 1 have brought it at once to
him"
''It is very good Of you 20 take so
much trouble, says Wifred. gently. and
Le is about To offer her n coin for the
service she has rendered him when the
girl shakes her head decidedly.
but no, Monsieur, il Is not necessary
70 pay Elise Bivault for doing simple
duty that costs her no trouble or palms.
True. true" assents Wifrc5, "Ju-
Elise win not mind. ! hope, taking some
little thing from me that viii help TO
ep the American in mind after he has
Arromanches-" And, saying this.
he hands her n small, veIvet- framed
picture Of the Sistine Madonna which
stands on a table by him and OF which
his eyes happen TO fall at that moment
Elise takes il Lesitauiugly.
surely She says, Monsieur can not
mean fo- me % have thisr7 And she
looks from the picture % Wnlred, and
from Wilfred back 70 the picture, in be
wilderment.
eyes, that IS Just what do mean"
answered the other, with decision
Elsie looks about the room with its
many little devices for comfort and lux
Ury-fo- Wifred has something OF tho
sybarite in his conpositiOn-aud then a.
the gOOG-loOking owner of them all, and
seems FOR . moment lost in thought
Monsieur is very kind, she saws at
length, ''and he may be sure that Elise
viii not forget him And then she bids
the American Cood-eveniaC. and goes
down the steep gallery staircase % the
inn yard, and disappears in the twi-
light, holding the velvet frame fast in
her hard hand
Wilfred is too glad to regain Elcanor's
gift TO think very much about the man
ner Of its restoration, but the next
morning, as he sits under his tent. he
sees the fsher-girls crossing the sands
not far away from him. Among them IS
Elise. ''Bon Jour, Monsieur they call
out as they pass. Elise is the last one.
and she turns her head for another look
at him. lie waves his hand kindly. and
she smiles and hurries on 10 her com
panious.
The days go on quietly at AFRO
manches. One day is just like another,
but the young man does not mind that.
The walk down tine PLACE after break
fast; the reading and writing under the
red and white tent; the chats with the
occupants Of the other tents; the walks
towards BaycuX or elsewhere in the
afternoon; the evening spent among
the fishermen and their boats-these
things are what fiji up his harmless, if
not severely profitable, days. Every
day the lines of hare-legged fisher-girls
crosses the silvery sands and every day
he waves his hand lightly to Elise and
thinks Of her not again till the next
time he sees her.
Elise's memory is longer. Indeed, he
is never far out of her mind. When she
is alone she repeats softly to herself the
words he said to her, and wonders
vaguely If all Americans are like him
So the days 20 by with her; each with a
little pain, the cause of which she does
not quite know; each with a little
.
his tent on the pL1ge, or catches a glimpse
of him in the village.
But August comes at length to its
end, and Wilfred makes up his mind TO
leave Arromanches. Every one is sorry
to hear that he is going, and fully half
the village gathers about the diligence
in front Of the Auberge Chretien on the
morning Of his departure All the
Chretien household are there in full
force, of course, and with them many
OF the fishermen and fisher-girls, and
greater number of small children than
one would have believed existed in the
entire hamlet. 1t is an exceedingly
pleasant thing TO be young and a gen
eral favorite, and Wilfred enjoys very
much this spontaneous evidence % =
popularity. The fareweils take up .
good deal Of time-so much, indeed, that
the diligence is at least twenty minutes
late when it starts for Bayeux.
81 shall come again next year" calls
out Wilfred from the diligence, and
then, amidst general cry of Bon voy-
age, Monsieur, D." the diligence rolls away.
At the Chateau de Tracy the diligence
stops 20 take on another passenger, and
here, by the roadside, Wilfred sees Elise.
. He does not dream that she has taken an