The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1895-03-01

snort. IL was clear that he had no
patience with the point OF view which
regarded the enemy as unfortunate
fellow creatures. He would have
spoken volubly again, but the cheval-
Ter, holding his daughter on his arm,
moved quickly down the churchyard.
Quitting the churchyard, the cheval-
Ter and his daughter took a path
which led 10y a circuitous route up to
the summit OF the sea-clifs.
On the very summit OF the cliff, to
the right of Etretat, looking seward,
stands the tiny chapel of Notre Dams
de la Garde (Our Lady of Safety, the
door of which is open day and night,
and the altar of which is hung with
all sorts of rude votive offerings, made
by the fishermen and those who live
there. Hither father and daughter
bent their footsteps, and presently
entering the little chapel, stood for q
few minutes in meditation.
Over the altar hung rude picture,
representing shipwrecked sailors on a
raft, while above them through an
open cloud, appeared a miraculous
vision OF Our Lady herself. Only one
other person was in the building;
very old woman, kneeling before the
picture, praying volubly and telling
her beads. Presently she rose to her
feet and hobbie1 to the door. still
muttering TO herself. She paused on
the cliff and looked down at the calm
sea, moving her head painfully from
side TO side
The chevalier and his daughter ap-
preached her.
Good day, mother" said the for
mer. ''Wero you Offering up a prayer
for some one out yonder on the sea?"
The old woman looked at him from
head te loot, then at the fair girl by
his side.
"My son is not a fisherman" she
answered; che is soldier"
well, 1t is the same thing. There
are perils on the land as well as on
the ocean, and Just now worse perils.
Where is your son at PRESENT."
''At the 'front.'" was the reply.
The cool Col only knows if he lives
still" She added savagely, The ac-
cursed Germans! have heard that
cut there in Lorraine, where the Prus-
slams came, our folks poisoned the
spring wells. 1t was well done-well
doner'
MAY. mother; it was wickedly done,
II done at all" cried Blanche. indig-
uantly. but I'll never believe it OF
our brave countrymen"
The old woman looked at her bale
fully.
lit isall very well,n she returned,
'"for fine folk like you to talk like
that You aristocrats look on while
we poor folk are driven out to die.
Ny son was peasant; / could not buy
him substitute; he had to 90"
"Let it comfort YOU" said the girl,
'that he is fighting in a noble cause. y
"a noble cause! What care for
the cause. / want my son. Had he
been fine gentleman Ike him beside
you. he would have stayed safe al
home; bat he was poor, IA have said,
and they took. him from me--my Jean,
my only son! All, it is an intamy
! There is one God for the poor and an
other for the rich; and it is the poor
who must suffer for all the evil cur
,rTilers do"
So saving, AMI once more subs iding
into broken mutterings, the erone
Incved feebly away. Father and daugh,
ter turned sadly AMI walked slowly
adeng the summit of the cliffs.
''Blanche, my child. you heard
what the old woman said? She was
right. In these sal times OF war the
evil fails only upon the poor, while
the rich are spared. Go knows that
it is not just"
She gazel at him earnestly, rs i
not quite gathering his meaning, be-
fore she replied,
SHUT it is not only the poor who are
fighting now for the Fatherland. This
jouru ais are full of the names of those
who arc ilocking TO take service
against the enemy, and the flower oil
sour. cid nobility is among them. Many
have gone even as com non soldiers.
IN! Nat they are brave"
After following for about mile the
cfeotpath along the cliffs they turned
iiDlanj, and crossing the plateau OF
grassland thyme, came upon open
fields.Ewhere all the summer the yell
low eclzs had been growing. Pres
emily they approached the shadow oi
fir Sooss. A modest gate opened TO a
nam'owta venue winding through the
trees; AMI following this avenue for
some distance. they came in sight OF
the old chateau. which for many a
generation had been the dwelling oil
che old family.
1t W. as al old fashioned house, with
q grand OH porch and terrace facing
the south, snd surrounded on every
si&e 10y woodland and bats of pasture.
The garleniE front of IL was arranged
fn terrae es apa shady wsills, and be-
hind 1t Here several orchards con-
neeasd wieh the home fanp. Seen in
the snblued light OF the autumnal day,
the place looked somewhat forlorn
and n little neglected; for dbe Cheva-
lier dc Gavmlles; though OF old descent,
was not a rich max, and found it nee
essay for MANY reasons to e,Dnomize
his income. One gardener, with occa-
sional assistaBce fro u Houzel the for