The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1894-09-28

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sanctifed despair for life and gold.
| Revoke your mercy"
There was no mistaking the firm
ness of his decision.
al thought we met as foes to part
as friends, y muttered the prime min
lister respectfully.
'.Alas! prefer the fate looked
for than so great a gladness al that
price
Then, Huguetr the guards
man came forward with the muslEe-
toon in the hollow of his brawny
arm-.'step into the tapestried cham
Der and send me the person there
awaiting my orders. :"
| As the soldier disappeared Maui
pratt sighed to himself, but with that
single exhaIation he recovered his
equanimity to face the executioner
whom he expected was thus sum-
moned.
! s.My execution will be private, "
! thought he, as the cardinal, with
what seemed reckless courage alone
before desperate man in condemna-
ton. placidly went on with his
scribbling. 81 am not a Count
! Chalais, but trust l shall as nobly
meet my doOmsman. "
The door opened, but the step was
light and joyous one which trans
/ ported Julie in amazement to his
] side. They gazed at one another
! with love which had no need of
words for mutual comprehension.
/ Wondering, the man, with terrible
revulsion at his heart, turned to the
cardinal, who. 1inging down his
goosequill, was resting his thin, long
face between his hands and his ell
bows on the table, smiling on the
pair.
.sYou smiler" cried Julie, shrink
ing back no longer from the conf
IDENTIFY opening arms of her lover, in
which, not caring to restrain them
selves, ''their sister corals met" in q
loving kiss. to word it after the
troubadour, who would have re-
! joiced to see so admirably a fitted
pair. ''Oh, my father:'' she pursued,
as the two knelt for the venerable
statesmans blessing, s'from my heart
forever, now. I'll blot the name of
orphan"
..Rise, my children" said the
other, ''fo: ye are mine-miue both.
We men are arrows. and nothing
sends Us so straight as love-" In
their sweet delight, perhaps, he saw
a revivication of his own first amor
Gus dreams.
"You shall have my summer
house in the Luxembourg gardens
There, l behold such a smile on
your lips, my boy, as her father wore
when 1 received that trust beside
his deathbed. Go. my children, stroll
! i'll the gardens in the last sun that
shall see you unwedded. You bear
it bravely. Adieu," he subjo1ned,
pushing the interlaced pair from his
cabinet. Though you know it re-
! quires leonine couragein
But the laugh of the infrm old
man died away before even the
would be married on the morrow
and be happy without care. whilst
he had all the world DESTROYS to
pluck from his heart his mistress,
France-the sweet and precious
! girdle round his native Paris, from
! both of which they sought to di-
vorce him by poison or the dagger.
For a day l will make merry in
! honor of the sterling fellow and my
! darling, the fairest BRIDE" unused
he, ''and let that venomous hatch
ing of the sting-fy courtier spring
up, bud, ripen, faunt in the day, and
burst to the Dead sea fruit of ashes
ashes which L will scatter to the
winds to manure the soil of power,
and ripen such full sheaves of great
ness that all the summer of my fate
shall seem fruitless beside the au-
tumn. Then will fall a lull, and L
shall, ha! ha! have leisure for my di-
versions. My great play shall be
completed. and Julie and Adrien will
applaud judiciously from the best
box!"
He was still chatting his hands
gIeefully with the eyes on the trag-
! edy in question, when a bell tinkled
in a drawer of his writing table. He
| opened it, and saw note already
shot there by some secret mechan-
ism from without.
cit is from Marion" he said, TAX
ing it up, but without eagerness. as
if he OWNED its revelation would
clash with his private Joy.
The note was in cipher, the sand
glistening on the still fresh ink like
a serpent's scales.
''Baradas, Orleans, and their col
leagues in some scheme meet at my
house this night. They come to
sign pledge of support to Bouillon
and scissors, and to choose the des-
perate hand that will strike your du-
cal eminence."
So ran the warning when inter
preted The threatened man lifted
an unruffied brow.
Hum! to gain the prize they must
destroy ali the eyes of the Argus
Good Marion! at her house they
! plot, the fools!-at her house, whence
issued the knight of Mauprat! Hem!
can he kiss M hand when he was
reeking with the Florentine per-
fume of the traitorous Cain, the duke
of Orleans? When l shall unfold
that compact of the treason-mOngers.
shall I see your name. Adrieu,
amidst those of many even more
trusted, only less beholden to the
dying defender OF a realm again to
be rackedP'
! A knock at the door, through
which the lovers had passed, full of
glaaness, and Mauprat alone walked
in, at the permission