Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1893-11-30

UIu unuef One parent wing, she could
not overcome that feeling of fear and
restlessness caused by her sisters alb
sence.
Are YOU sure that she is not serious
ly Il?' she asked Philip, looking at
him with fever-bright eyes 1t is so
unlike Kathleen to make much of a
Slight illness. And she must know that
am pining for her.
Shall l 90 and fetch herr asked
Philip, making a movement towards
the door. 1T Is better for her health
that she should stay in bed: but #
you want her so badly
No. no, not for the world Give
her my fondest love Tell her to nurse
herself. Give her baby's love, too.
Philip: l know this little creature is
al love. though he was born in an
evil time"
Poor little stormbirdr' murmured
Philip, bending over the bed to kiss
the little pink face, so soft, like some
thing very sweet and lovable. but not
quite human.
Philip did not know what
would be the outcome of the
lies he told so glibly. Yet he knew
that it would be dangerous to tell his
wife the trlIth-dangerous while her
cheeks were flushed and her eyes
CLASSY with fever. Maman Schubert
had warned him that he must wade
chln4deep in falsehoOd rather than
oil l1vtr II i ifn1r
bled. He must do something in the
world to SOothe and comfort her. La
Schubert herself was glib and invent
i've, and her presence had always
q soothing effect. She brought Rose
imaginary messages from her sister
and pretended to convey Roses re
plies. She handled the baby, anC
cooked Philips dinner, and made the
inValid's broth. all with the livelies
air, and made light of confiagration ant
ruin, although with every hour the
roar of cannon, the hiss of mitrailleuse
grew louder, fort answering to for
with sullen thunder, the sound of mus
kerry close at hand
At midday a hideOus noise resound
ed throughout the quarter The houses
rocked; fragments of plaster fell from
the ceiling
What was that? The explosion wa;
too loud for any she'll, however for
midable 1t was only the powder ma
Sazine at the Luxembourg, which ha(
just been blown UP. The Pantheon
was expected momentarily.
/ And still Maman Schubert. with nod
and friendly smiles, assured her dear
| est Madame Durand. 'cette Dauvrt
chere." that the Versailles troops wer,
carrying everything before them. TIL
| Commune was surrendering without
! blow Order would be restored, Pari
at peace, by Sunday morning.
And we shall hear all the church
bells ringing for mass, and see tn,
people in their Sunday Clothes" con
Guided Maman Schubert cheerily.
! SO the long day and the evenins
wore through, and it was midnight
and there was no sign of Kathleen
! She whose return was so eagerl,
! awaited in the Rue le Occur was no
very far afield when the clocks chimet
midnight. She had wandered abou
Paris all day, haunting the gates o
the prisons, inqriring for her missin:
husband of every one who seemed il
the least to be able to answer Ha,
| there been any new arrests made with
| in the last three days, and amOngs
the new arrests was there a yOun:
man. tall, slim, with dark-gray eye
and marked brnwS, handsome, Il jour
nalist? At the gates of Mazas, at TIN
Great and Little RoQuette. at Saint
! Pelagie, at La Sante, the patient pill
grim appeared, weary, with garment
whitened by the chalky dust of tn
| hard dry roads which scorched he
tired feet, dropping in body, yet brav
Of soul, questioning, seeking, watching
implOring, but finding no trace of TIL
lost one.
Night was falling before she tllrnet
away from the gates of La Sante, tn
model prison of Paris, where Genera
| Chanzy had been imprisoned for sever
weary days at the beginning of th
! Commune-night had fallen as sh
walked slowly and YEARLY back t
that part of the city which she knew
| best, where the POnt Neuf spans TIL
| Seine, and the dark towers of Notr
Dame stand out strong and sterl
against the skyline. Night had come
but not darkness. The crescent moor
shed HER pale silvery light in the east
and the stars We're golden i'm the dee
calm azure of a cloudlesS Sky. Blu
all at once that azure vault grew dark
! and the stars vanished. Glgnnti
clouds of black smoke mounted to tn
Sky, and then descended earthward
covering the city with an impenetrabl
dome. Beneath this inlly vault all wa
lurid. An awful light glared aux
glowed on the Quays, on the bridge
| in the broad space in front of the Hote
de Vile. Left bank and right banl
! blazed and glared; here some STATED,
public office, there q millionaire'S man
sion. sent UP its tribute of flame t.
swell the funeral pyre of the doom
! ed city. ''ChasSepot and torch, shoe
and burnr' was the order of the night
Wonder in the Rue de Rivoh they wer
| fighting desperately. Kathleen RAJ
across the street amidst a rain o
| bullets, stumbling over scattered
corpses, deafeDed by the roar of tn,
cannonade. Slowly, despairingly, sh
wandered up and down those dreadful
streets perpetually in danger, yet pass
ing scathless through every peril. Nov
and then a savage scowling face looket
at her interrogatively, and then passet
j by SentinelS questioned. and let he