St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-05-29

when her mistress was seized with a
sudden horror at the thought of being
left alone with the desperate and she
called her back.
"Before you CO." said she. with
cOunterfeited careleSSneSs, tell Marie
to come here and keep me company. L
will see if she has made any improve
ment in that embroidery work | tried to
teach her in London"
'.Alas. madame" said Adele, "Marie
took the liberty of going to bed ali hour
ago."
1.-THE lazy little mink" cried the lady,
laughing. But no matter. L viii
amuse myself during your absence by
rehearsing my part in the new specta-
cle."
Adele departed and Nine. Vestris was
left alone alone. save for that terrible
presence, whom, perchance, an impru-
dent movement of her foot beneath the
table, or even a tell-tale culver of her
her voice, might at any instant awaken
into capacity for evil and murderouS
purpose, the very thought OF which
caused the blood to curdle in her veins.
But she had set herself TO play part
such as she had never played before,
and nObly did she enact it to the close.
She recited the lines of her fOrthcom-
ing role over and over again; she
sang, she trilled, she caroled in man
ner that would have raviShed the ears
of thousands; and all to that single,
deadly, lurking auditor, whose sup
pressed breathing she fancied she could
sometimes detect between the pauSeS of
her voice. and whom she felt to be
within hands breadth of her trembling
limbs.
During all this enforced gayety she
was prey to such secret and mental
anguish can only be imagined by the
most sensitive of Womanly natures.
The seconds crept by like minutes, the
minutes seemed hours, and at last,
when she had pretty thoroughly ex-
hausted her voice, she sank back with a
sigh, and contented herself with num-
ming unsteady and in low voice.
Presently, at the end of an hour,
though it might we'll have seemed an
eternity to her. her heart gave great
leap as she heard the clatter of wheels
i'll front of the hotel. A moment later
Adele entered the room. but with such
a demure look upon her face that her
mistress at first feared that her message
had miscarried. But Adele was some
thing of an actress herself. and there
were those lightly following her up the
staircase who brought the assurance OF
safety and release.
She was almost instantly followed
into the saloon by three police officers.
who were in turn not only followed by
NJ. Vernac, the jeweler, but also by Mr..
Mathews. Nine. VeStriS' husband, who
had been picked up at one of the thea
tiers on the way.
As soon as the brave lady saw her
husband she uttered an hySterical
scream. and flew into his arms, with
fOrgetfuness of her Sprained ankle for
which she could never afterwards ac-
count. At the same instant the officers
overturned the table and bounced upon
the concealed ruffian underneath. He
made a desperate resistance, being a.
powerful ruffian and armed to the teeth,
but was overcome after short struggle,
and led TO prison, after the heoric lady
had briefly related her story Of the de-
lection of his presence and tne STRAIT
agem by which she had caught him in
the tolls.
The criminal turned out to be one
Dufresne. galley slave from Toulon,
who had made himself notorious i'll the
South OF France before breaking loose
from prison and entering upon the Sc
rieS of crimes which led to the cOnclu-
sion of his career. He was hardened
and somewhat original wretch, and he
is known to have remarked, with much
nonchalence, II ought TO forgive the
stratagem by which | was ruined.
Parbleau! for whole hour | was the
sole auditor of he greatest singer and
actress in Europe, who gave herself eX-
ceptionai trouble TO entertain me-"