The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1895-11-07

| "That's a heavy bill for two days in
the country, sir"
Faith, too heavy for me. And If ye'd
bring me brandy and soda, I'd be the
better for il. I've 10 ride with madame
this morning"
i brought him the spirit, and when he
had drunk it, he seemed more himself.
"IIildebrand," said he, getting up
sudden off the bed, "'tis beautiful air
TO breathe, but too strong for me. l
think we'd do better i'm Paris"
"rm sure OF it, sir" said /, glad
enough TO hear him talk like that.
''But better or worse, I'll be staying
awhile yet, said he, after minute;
there's business that keeps me. and
bedad! it's pleasant business, too
| knew what he meant, and there
was no need 10 talk 10 me in this way.
The business that kept him at the
chateau was madame's pretty face. He
followed il everywhere, riding with her
in the morning, taking tea with her
in the arbor by the lake in the after
noon. turning over her music at night,
looking into her eyes whenever they
met, rs if he could have eaten her. And
all the time she was the wife of another
man--and more than that, was as deep
down in roguery rs any scoundrel out
of Newgate. ] write that she was deep
down in roguery, but that is to get
ahead OF my story. You want to know
naturally how | found that out, and
/ will tell you in e few words. II was
the second day after / had seen the
strange thing in the woods, day when
/ was beginning 10 say that whatever
was the mystery of the Chateau de
rEpee, / should never unravel il.
had spent the morning brushing up my
masters clothes, but i'm the afternoon
j carried n message down TO the village,
and as L was turning through the park
i CHANGED 10 pass at the back of the
little arbor by the lake. Sir Nicolas
was sitting there with Mime. Pauline,
but. instead of making love TO her as
usual, he was watching her spin little
bail in q basin. This seemed TO me
such funny thing that / stopped a
minute to watch; and seeing that no
one was about j crept quite up to the
place presently and got better view
of what she was doing. / found then
that what ] had taken TO be basin
was nothing but bit of roulette
board, and that madame was showing
him how well she could keep bank.
Look" she said, and her eyes were
as bright as diamonds when she spoke,
II will spin any number you like
choose one yourself and try me-
He named the number twelve, and
she set the ball rolling. When it
stopped, / knew by his exclamation
that she had succeeded.
"Bedad! it's like miracle" cried he,
"was il here that you practised it?"
Indeed. no; learnt il when / used
70 be tailleur for my husband. They
played almost every day then, and |
spun the ball so often that found out
mt last how to make it go into any hole
/ pleased. What a fortune could win
If / were dishonest!"
With this she drew quite close to him,
and j saw him wind his arm tight
around her. Presently she said, and
said it very sweet, too:
"Marmontel has won a great deal
Off you, hasn't hep"
THE matter of four thousand" re.
piled he, very gloomily.
"You would win it back and more IL
j were tailleur tonight, and you were
my partner" she went on, still very
nicely.
You're mocking me-" said he, in
French, but his face flushed with the
word; "the things not possible"
mot possible" said she, looking up
at him in her saucy way, mot possible
When two OF the croupiers at Monaco