Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1893-09-30
THE RED FLAG,
II.
CONTINUED.
Wayside Il0wpr.

~ NA HANth A AhN US.
The Rue Cit le Coeur is not one az
the fashionable streets of Paris. Ia
does not belong 90 the English quarter.
OF the American quarter, or the Lesiti-
mist quarter, or the Diplomatic quar-
ter Art, on Learning, of Science, or the
demi monde. Beauty and fashion never
visit the spot. Ii has hardly q place
Ola the map of Paris And yet, like
many another such streets. ii is a little
world in Itself, and human beings are
born and lie i'm it, ana passions pure
and holy, and base and wicked. are
uourishrd and fostered there: ana
comedies and tragedies are acted there.
turn by turn. as the wedding feast is
spread, or the funeral drapery hung
out, black and limp and dismal, against
the dingy door-posts.
Git le Coeru is q narrow shabby
little street, hidden somewhere IN the
deusely populated district between the
Boulevard ST. Michel and the Rue des
Saints Bercs. 1t is ear the Quai DIES
AugIstins, which makes a pleasant
promenade Tor us inhabitants ON sum
IItL 'hNIAll-Nt AitA TIC AlAtls Nilltll
sight Of the mighty towers Of Notre
Dame, within sound of her drep-toned
bells. 1t is near the NIorgue. and not
very far from the hospitals: near the
Hower-market; near much that is cen
trail and busy. closely hemmed round
with the teeming life Of the work-a-day
world Of Paris; but very far from the
naunts Of pleasure. from the famous
restaurants, from clubs and cafes, from
parks and partcrreS, from opera-house
and aristocratic hotel.
Ii IS q narrow street crooked too
and the houses are Of the shahbiest.
In one of these houses, "A house which
lay back from the street, and, with
three others, formed a stony guard
ransle, enclosing a little yard. dwelt
Rose ANA Kathleen O'Hara. two sis
tiers of Irish parcutage, the daughters
of a poor Irish gentleman, who had
come here from the good city of Bruges
in Flanders, just twelve years ago, and
had occupied the same little apartment
on the third story ever since. Just
nineteen years ago Captain O'Tara was
living with Il young second wife and
a sevcn-year-old daughter, the issue Of
his first marriage, in the city of Brus
sells. He had been in the army, IN the
S1th Irish FusileCrs, had run through
MS little patrilnOny, and had sold his
commission, and thrown himself al
most penniless on the world, after the
manner of many other gentlemen,
English as well as Irish. Twice had
he married i'm ten years, ana twice for
love. Nothing could have been more
honorable or less prudent than either
marriage; and now he was living from
hand to mouth in furnished lodgings
I'm Brussels. writing a little for the
English newspapers, getting a little
help now and then from his own FAINT
from q wealthy maiden aunt of his
witc's-the aunt from whose handsome
house in the Circus, Bath. pretty
Kathleen Reilly had run away with
her handsome Captain. The aunt had
not forgiven or taken back to favor;
but she sent a little help occasionally.
out of sheer charity, ana always ac-
'blb lblI4Nb bN a 1b'Ah-i NiAA'At -ftN' %
flavor of bitterness to the boon.
Captain O'IIarJ and wife were
not unhappy, in spite Of their pre-
carious fortunes, II was summer, and
the scent Of the limchlossom was in
the air of the park ANA the boulcvards;
the lamplit streets and cafes were fun
Of brightness ana music in the balmy
eyentides Of July. The young wife was
looking forward tremblingly, vet hope
fully, to the cares and Joys of mater
nifty. The dork-eyed stepdaughter
adored her. Too young to remember
her w mother, who had died in Ben
gal, where the girl was born, the child
ldolised the Captains fair-haired wife,
and was foudly loved by her in return.
Never was there a happier family
group than these three. and when the
expected baby should come, it was to
be- q boy, the Captain declared in the
pride OF his heart; a son and heir
heir to empty pockets, wasted oppor-
tuuities, bankruptcy, and gaol He was
piuiug for a son to perpetuatc the