San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-06-22

inere was a nlGdGn pace III it, IKE
cave, with branches and thistles grow
ing before the mouth of it, and ugly
birds Tapping in and out. 1 knew that
there was Il dead Body in that cave, and
was afraid that should have to go in
and pull it out, but just ash was at the
entrance it all faded away and seemed
to fall through deep space, where
everything was still and dim. When it
ended was III my bed here at home"
1--WE will have no more of this" said
he. ut is not right that you should be
made liable to such experiences. And if
there even were need for it, it is passed
now. know all require to know, and
now that we have met, don't care for
anything else-not even to punish the
guilty" .......
Eyes, love makes up for everything,
doesn't it," returned she, "but the guilty
punish themselves. All the vengeance
in the world could not bring us nearer
together"
"There is only one thing that makes
me wish that justice might be done,"
said Keppel, after a pause. 81 have al
ways wished that the world should know
that | was innocent. Now that am no
longer disguised from you, wish not to
be disguised at all. And l doubt if
can maintain my mask as easily as
have done hitherto. l shall continually
be speaking in my old voice, and acting
in my old way. 1t has all come back to
me so strongly that 10 longer see my
self or think of myself as the Count de
Lisle."
1--WE will not live here" said Olympia.
1--WE could go to Nav Zealand or Peru
Or Asia, where no one knows Us or can
reach us. You are my country, the
only one l care to live in. Let us disap-
pear, like the fairies"
"Riches can buy most things, but the
more riches you have the less can you
buy seclusion. We can't escape that
way. Wherever we went we should find
newspaper correspondent.
I'VE might give the money away"
Olympia suggested. "You could build
and endow your school Of art, and a few
things like that, and then we would go
off, like good people when they die, and
we should certainly go to heaven, so long
, as we staid together. Then the news
paper people would stay behind with the
money"
"Well, perhaps we WILL" said Keppel
musingly. ITO have wealth beyond a
certain point is only to undertake the
labor of living the lives of ten or thou
sand men, as well as your own. You
may, if you are wise and good enough,
produce more courru.T led and visibly
beneficial effects th?n a promiscuous
crowd wo=ll, but in the long run private
mountains Of money do more harm than
good. You can give away as much as
you ike, only must keep a million or
two to buy your bonnets with"
Where did you get so much money,
Keppel?" inquired Olympia. where
did it come from? 1t seemed natural that
the Count de Lisle should have i, but
that you should have it is diHeren.; it is
like having it myself
1T came from the treasure houses o..
European kings, and from the strong
boxes of misers and the breasts of fair
women and the savings of poor peasants;
from robbery and murder and crime and
cruelty of every sort; it has been gradu-
ally accommodating for hundreds of years;
it is even said that Charlemagne began
it; certainly Francis l added to it, and
Henry of Navarro and Louis the Great.
Napoleon doubled it, | suspect, but no
one knows or ever will know certainly
by whom or how it was contributed to.
The singular thing about it is that it
should have been passed along as asecret
heirloom from ruler to ruler of France;
it was always regarded as private
treasure, though of course it should
have belonged to the nation--if treasure
got as tAis was could be said to belong
to anybody except the original owners.
When the French Revolution occurred
the queen hid the treasure, and when
she was condemned to the guillotine she
told the secret to some one whom she be-
ieved she could trust, in order that it
mlSnC De aNallaO!e IOr bringing DICK
their dynasty to power after the revolu-
ton had ended. This confidant must
have betrayed his trust. At any rate
Bonaparte got hold of the treasure not
long after. Louis Philippe never could
get trace of it, and Louis Napoleon, to
whom the secret was Impaired, entered
into possession as the rightful heir after
the coup d'etat. He looked upon it, as
probably all his predecessors had, as a
power in reserve, not to be used except
in case of need. But ne knew from ex-
perience how uncertain things are in