The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1893-10-14

se'The fault of those cursed wolves
said he; there was no drive at all;
they were in the trap of their own
accord when Renard and I arrived
We killed them at once without a
second shot even. But you were 60
Ing for air, you say, dearest; come,
take my arm then; we'll go out to-
gether for little WHILE
Willingly" began his wife, then
stopped short and sank half swooning
into a chair beside her. =:
S'The moon, flashing suddenly from
the clouds that covered it, had shown
her plainly, through the greenhouse
door, an instant lighted up, the pale,
anxious face of Robert de Gedres.
One instant visible, the next
moment lost in the night, as, again
the moon was yelled by the clouds.
''Behold what had happened.
SAT the moment when Mime. de
Lucenay, terrified by the situation
and the coming of her husband,
pushed to the heavy, iron-bound door
Of the conservatory upon the colonel,
she had closed it so quickly and firmly
that she had caught between it and
the frame the index finger of M. de
Gedres' right hand.
AT that moment M. de Lucenay en-
tered the salon. In spite of his
agony, Robert de Gedres had strength
enough to restrain a cry, though suf-
fering a torture that for a moment
made it seem as if he must swoon out
right. AS soon as he could, for the
pain and faintness, he sought to ex-
tricate his hand and return as he had
come.
'sBut, alas! a crueler pang still
warned him that he was not free to
go; that the iron 1nountings of the
door chung still by: strip of flesh to
his broken finger and held him pris-
oner. - ,u..
''Again, at the same moment, the
raised voice of nj. de Lucenay, propos-
ing to lead his wife to the garden,
reached him through the glasses, and
by the dim light burning in the salon
brackets he saw him extend his arm
and saw his wife rise to accept it.
''In one binding flash all the con-
sequences of his mad act were scared
upon his brain, all the drama that
was going to pass, the horrible scan
dial, the right to justice that the hus-
band would demand for fancied out
rage; and this woman, this ir-
reproachable wife, whom with all his
soul he loved in spite of the barriers
between them, would be ruined, scan
dalized, possibly killed through him,
! who would willingly have died to
save her.
stTo save her! All, a thought had
struck him he could, he would save
her!'' -
"Fumbling feverishly in his pocket,
he drew out his knife, opened it with
his teeth, and with one, swift, un-
hesitating cut, the crushed bone and
flesh were through and Robert de
Gedres, the bleeding stump wrapped
in his handkerchief, disappeared in
the night. .sya- 80.
s.Next morning, at roll call, instead
of the colonel, a messenger arrived
from the doctor, bringing the intelli-
gence that M. de Gedres had grievously
wounded himself that morning clean
T ing his revolver and had gone, by his
orders, to recover from the accident at
his country seat Of soupe solange."
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I Nine. de Logerolles stopped, Jean
wiped his moist brow IA -: !,
ssZounds, marquise," cried he, draw
ing long breath to relieve the tension
of his feelings, 'tthat's a creepy story
of yours, butsif as you say De Gedres
was so discreet, how did you come to
know so by the card all the peripa-
tetics of this .adventure?''
f The marquise stood up briskly and
smilingly.
Jean, my friend" said she, '.the
cotillion and my, story both are ended.
Profit by it; be discreet, ask no ques-
tions; and above all, in thy love affairs
never let thy fingers be caught by the
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