San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1892-04-11

roux came III ana greeted ner visitor as
If he were very welcome. She soon left
him to Madelaine and went away TO the
window Of the inner room.
why did you not tell me Won knew
themy Madelaine said responsibility.
"Why this mystery
He smiled at her.
81 had several reasons for nv silence.
For one thing, you never asked me-in-
deed, l may say that at the beginning of
our acquaintance you SO completely ;o.
nored me that was obliged to talk only
to Mademoiselle Chaumelle." Madelaine
blushed with shame. Monsieur Henri
went on: "When we really began to
talk, there was so much else to be said:
but now, before the other guests ar
rive, | have something to say. May l.
say it,"
Madelaine felt strangely agitated;
she did nct know what was the matter
with her; it seemed to her that she must
laugh and cry both at once.
what is it," she said family. She
was sure now that he did not care for
her; he was so calm and self possessed,
while she was quivering from head to
foot with the JOY of seeing him again.
II have found out your secret" he
said, in too low voice to reach Madame
Leroux, who, good industrious woman
that she was. had taken bit of en-
broidery from her pocket and was sew
ing busily. Madelaine longed to run
away She fixed her eyes on her hands,
which lay clasped in her lap. She
thought that unless she looked up at
him he could not read her feelings in
her face. "Yes," he repeated, 81 have
found out what you refused to tell me
on the way to Tancarville. The 'horrid
something is a husband"
"Welly' She still kept her eyes fixed
on her fingers.
MAY ask one question:"
Madelaine nodded.
"Tell me, is your objection to Mon
sieur Devrient or to the mere fact of
husbands"
She looked up at last
He was not laughing at her and he
seemed very much in earnest. "For in
stance'-he bent over her-"if friend
you could trust-if were to put myself
in the place of Monsieur Devrient, would
you think me 'horrid, Madelaine?"
Madelaine's tongue seemed stiffened;
she could not get out word.
Monsieur Henri apparently read an an
swer in her eyes; he took her hand in his
just as the door opened and Monsieur
Leroux came in.
He looked at the lovers and then he
bent down and kissed Madelaine and
shook hands with Monsieur Henri.
"Ah, see it is all settled" he said.
81 own frankly that your plan was a
much better one than mine, Devrient,
with such difficult young woman"
.Madelaine started. She looked with
frightened eyes from her father to Mon
sieur Henri. Her father was smiling,
but her lover was very serious.
Pardon me, my friend" he said to
Monsieur Leroux, "but had not come
to that" Then he turned to Madelaine
and once more took her hand in his.
you think you have been cheated"
he said, land treated like child, but it
is not really so; you must not think it.
| had seen you, but you had not seen
me, and told your father | wished you
to form your own opinion and to choose
for yourself, Ms girls do in England, but
could not ask you to be my wife until
you knew the truth" .....
Come here, Leroux," his wife said,
"your tie is crooked; let me straighten
it." Then she whispered, "They will
never get right while you stand staring
at them both"
Am forgiven" Henri Devrient
whispered.
Madelaine tried to frown and then to
pout, but Monsieur Devrient did not
seem alarmed by these efforts, and as he
drew her to him very tenderly she hid
her face on his Observation-Disclosures