The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-12-23
Ia TOUSSAINTs.
A Story From the Memoirs of Minister of France.


young man who-brought up in the
depths of the country, and without
experience, training or fashion-aouid
50 speak in the face of Paris was 80
lar cut Of the common that / hest
tated to dash his hops in the con-
temptuos way which seemed most
natural. was content TO remind him
that Crillon had lived in times Sof con-
tinual wa, whereas now, we were at
peace; and, bidding h m come 20 me
in week, I h.nsed that liz Paris his
crowns would fla more flequent op-
p5r-uAitieS of leaving his pockets than
MS sword It's sh sash.
He parted from me with this, SEEM
ing perfectly satisfied with his recep-
gion, and march away with The port
of a man syho expected adventures a.
mike the most of them. App lreatEy
he did not take my hint greatly to
heart, However; for when I met him
within the week, he was fsSh.on3 bly,
, dressed, his hair in the mode, and his
company as noble as himself. I made
him sign to stSp, and he came to
speak TO me.
How many crowns are left?" I said
jocularly.
Fifty he answered, with perfect
readiness.
Wal" said. pointing to his equip
ment with som thing of the lndign-ti5.l
1 felt, has this cost the balance?"
NO." he answered. son the con-
trar,,', I have paid three months rem
in advance and a months board
Zaton's; 1 have added two suits to my
on the dice
You promise wellr' I said.
He shrugged his shoulders quite in
the fashionable manner, stArWays
COURAGE" he said; and he went on,
smiling
l was talking at the time with NJ. de
Saintonge, and he muttered with a
sheer that it was not difficult to see
the end, or that within the year the
young brdggart would sink to be a
gaming house bully. l said nothing,
but l confess that I thought otherwise;
the lads disposition of his money and
his provision for the future seeming to
me so remarkable as to set him above
ordinary rules
From this time 1 began to watch
his career with interest, and I was
not surprised when, in less than a
month, something fell out that led
the whole court u regard him with a.
mixture of amusement ana expectancy.
One evening, after leaving the kings
closet, l happened to pass through the
east gallery at the Louvre which
served at that time as the outer ante
chamber, and was the common resort
as we'll of all those idlers who. with
some pretensions to fashion, lacked
the entree, as of many who with great
er claims preferred to be at their ease.
My passage for moment stilled the
babel which prevailed. But I had no
sooner reached the farther door than
the noise broke out again; and this
with so sudden a fury, the tumult be-
ing augmented by the crashing fall of
a table as caused me at the last mo-
ment to stand and turn. a dozen
voices crying simultaneously. Have
a care" and mot here! not herer' and
all looking the same way, l was able
to detect the three principals in the
fracas- They were no other than NJ
de st. Mesmin, Barradas-a low fell
low. still remembered, who was al
ready what Saintonse had prophesied
that the former would become-and
young st. German, the eldest son of
NJ. de Clan.
I rather guessed than heard the
cause of the quarrel, and that st. Mes
min, putting into words what many
had known for years and some made
their advantage of, had accused Bar
radas of cheating. The latter's fury
was, Of course, proportional to his
guilt; an instant challenge while L
looked was his natural answer. This,
as he was a consummate swordsman,
and had long earned his living as