The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1893-07-13

gravel walk, seeming to mock the birds as
they sang in glad, sweet chorus overhead.
Philippe's mad course had come only to
an end when he had found himself at the
little station at Tours, and had seen before
him, just about to depart, the Paris Ex-
press" Throwing himself, all unperceived
as 1t happened, into an empty carriage, he
had been an instant later whirling on toward
Paris, where, On reaching his apartment and
finding his valet absent, he had gone directly
to his room, and, overcome with fatigue and
delirious with fever, had stretched himself
upon that bed from which he was to rise but
two months later.
Never once through all the painful recital
did be falter, or seek in any way TO excuse
or palliate his fault, and so powerful an
effect did his calm, straightforward words
and manners have upon his hearers, that as
he ceased speaking there was probably but
one person present who did not wish him
well. Indeed, at the time it was very gem
orally limited that the degree of viruIence
exhibited by the prosecuting attorney could
have been motived only by the promise of
munificent reward. aud when the latter fol-
lowed with bitterly-envenomed speech
tending to show how Saint Armand alone
had been benefited by this death, and how
easily he might have cleared himself of all
suspicion had he but told this story at the
time, the faces grew very grave again, and
il was generally feared things would go
! hardly for this man whose demeanor under
these trying circumstances had won for him
| such widespread sympathy.
Harry-God bless him stood nobly by
! his friend through all that time, and it was
he who brought US each day tidings Of how
| the case advanced; for despite Madame de
| Flayelles's earnest solicitation Margaret had
insisted upon returning to Paris-to be near
| Philippe, she said. But as TO seeing Saint
! Armand, that was out of the question, for at
his special request, transmitted TO us by my
| brother we none of us attended the trial,
and he peremptorily refused to receive even
Margaret in his cell. / wondered at that at
/ the time but later The idea struck me that
! il must have been from fear of unnerving
| himself.
As for Eugene de Flavelles, he appeared
! to have entirely dropped out of our lives,
| and even the old Marquise, who left the
chateau to be with us few days, never
mentioned his name.
Never shall / forget Harry's face as he
came rushing in on the last day of that trial
| with tears of joy actually glstening in his
eyes, to tell us how, when things had been
looking very black indeed for Philippe, Mon
| seigneur de Lessert-who had been present
each day from the opening to the closing OF
the court-had suddenly requested permis-
sion TO testify, and had told the story with
| so much feeling, dwelling so earnestly upon
the low and violent character of the woman
with whom they had. then had to deal-she
had died but few months later in a
drunken orgy-and of The harm she would
undoubtedly have worked TO the young
Count had she but foreseen chance of seeur-
ing MS vast inheritance; and of bow, sup
posing that his silence could ipjure no one
for it was at the trial that Monseigneur and
Philippe heard for the first time of the
blight that had been cast upon poor
jacques life-he had himself counciied
Saint Armand to say nothing of the matter.
Iheu, changing his tone, he had spoken so
impressiyely OF The mental sufferings the