Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1894-07-06

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supernatural means of obtaining in
formation, had the omnipoteut statos-
man already become cognizant Of
that treaty signed few hours since
by the hand which he had unfettered
so nobly? Impossible! and Mauprat
breathed less heavily.
young Adrien. went on the prel-
ate, "thou hast dared to love my
ward.
at is true" responded the knight
manlully; "a priest may not know
how blessed a thing it was TO my
dark hour to nurse the one sweet
thought you bid me Danish. He was
u base knight and false lover who
bartered all that soothed in grief or
sanctitied despair for life and gold.
Revoke your mercy"
There was no mistaEing the firm
ness Of his decision.
81 thought we met as foes to part
rs friends" muttered the prime min
lister regretfully.
ALAS / prefer the fate | looked
for than so great gladness at that
price"
"Then, Huguet!" the guards
man came forward with the muske-
toon in the hollow of his brawny
--''step into the tapestried cham
Der and send me the person there
awaiting my orders. "
AS the soldier disappeared Mau
pratt sighed to himself, but with that
single exhalation he recovered his
equanimity to face the eXecutioner
whom he expected WAS thus sum-
moned.
"My execution will be private, "
thought he, as the cardinal, with
what seemed reckless courage alone
before a desperate man in condemna-
tion, placidly went on with his
scribbling. Il am not Count
Chalais, but trust | shall us nobly
meet my doomsman.
The door opened but the step was
q light and Joyous one which trans
ported Julie in amazement TO his
side. They gazed at one another
with love which hal no need OF
words for mutual prehension.
Wondering, the man. with a terrible
revulsion at his heart, turned TO the
cardinal. who, ilinging down his
goosequill, was resting his thin, long
face between his hands and his ell
bows on the table, smiling on the
pair
You smile" cried Julie. shrink
ing Rack no longer from the conf
IDENTIFY opening arms of her lover, in
which, not caring to restrain them
selves, their sister corals met" in a
loving kiss, to word it after the
troubadour, who would have re-
joiced to see so admirably u fitted
pair ''Oh, my father" she pursued,
as the two knelt for the venerable
statesman blessing. from my heart
forever, now, I'll blot the name Of
orphan"
''Riso, my children, said the
other. 40" We are mine--mine both.
We men are arrows. and nothing
sends US so straight as love-" In
their sweet delight, perhaps, he saw
revivication OF his own first amor
Gus dreams.
You shall have my sum mer-
house in the Luxembourg gardens,
There. behold such u smile on
your lips. my boy, as her father wore
when ! received that trust beside
his deathbcd. Go. my children, stroll
in the gardens in the last sun that
shall see YOU unwedded You bear
it bravclv. Adieu," he subjolned,
pushing the interlaced PAIR from his
cabinet. Though you know it re-
quires leonine courage"
But the laugh of the infrm old
man died away before even tho
sound of their gay footsteps. They
would be married on the morrow.
and he happy without a care. whilst
he had all the world DESTROYS TO
pluck from his heart his mistress,
I France sweet and precious
girdlc round his native Paris, from
both of which they sought to di-
vorce him by poison or the dagger.
For day ! will make Iacrry in
honor of the sterling fellow and my
darling. the fairest bride" mused
he, land let that venomOus hatch
ing of the stlng-hy courtier spring
up, bud. ripen, faunt in the day, and
| burst to the Dead sea fruit of ashes
ashes which / will scatter to the
winds 10 manure the soil of power,
and ripen such full sheaves of great.
ness that all the summer of my fate
/ shall seem fruitlcss beside the au
tumn. Then will fall lull, and
shall, ha! ha! have leisure for my di
versions. Ny great play shall be
completed. and julio and Adrien will
applaud judiclously from the bes'
box"
He was still chatting his hands
gleefully with the eyes on the trag
edy in question. when bell tinlSleC
in q drawer of his writing table. Hc
opened it, and saw note already
shot there by some secret mechan
ism from without.
at is from Marion" he said, tax
ing it up, but without oagerness. a,
If he OWNED its revelation wouli
clash with his private JOY.
The note was in cipher, the sane
e,listeninp IN tho still Trash ink lilx,