Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1896-05-06

Hts fist came dorm upon the audbbling
table.
presence. The little Giestin, left to his
own devices, took only the time to give
a quick, wary glance round the room,
and the next instant he bounded through
the open door, as the nimblest of four
footed creatures might have done.
Mile. st. Denys Godolph conducted
school during the hours that remained
with deliberate calmness that would
have seemed ominous to her pupils had
they been better versed in the ways of
young women. When the hour for dis
missal came, she raped upon the table
to demand attention.
"Chil'ren," she said, assuming a re-
signed and dignified mien, you ali
have been witness today of tho insult
that has been offered to yo' teacher BY
the person upon whose lam this school
house STAINS have nothing further to
say on that subjec'. I only shall add
that tomorrow yo' teacher shall sen the
key of this schoolhouse, together with
her resignation. to the gentlemen who
compose the school boa There fol-
lowed visible disturbance among the
young people.
Il ketch that lie m 'latta, make
i'm see right, yas,' screamed one.
Nothing of tie kline. Methurin. You
mus take no such step if only ont of
consideration TO- my wishes. The person
who has offered the affront 1 consider
beneath my notice. Andre. Oh the other
han, is a chile Of good impulse, an BY
no means to blame. As you all perceive,
he has shown mo- taste all Judgment
than those above him, f'om whom we
might have espected good breeding at
least"
She kissed them all, the little bows
and the little girls, and had kind word
Tor each. "Et tot. mon petit Numa,
l'espere qu'u autre que moi''-she
could not finish the sentence, for little
Numa, her favorite, to whom she had
never been able TO impart the first word
OF English, was blubbering at a turn of
affairs which he had only miserably
guessed at.
She locked the schoolhouse door and
walked away toward the bridge By the
time she reached it the little 'Cadians
had already disappeared like rabbits,
down the road and through and over the
fences.
Mile. St Denys Godolph did not cross
the trestle the following day, nor the
next, nor the next. Laballiere watched
for her. for his big heart was already
sore and filed with shame. But more,
it stung him with remorse to realize
that he had been the stupid instrument
in taking tho bread, as it were, from
the mouth of Mile. ST. Denys Godolph.
He recalled how unflinchingly and
haughtily her blue eyes had challenged
his own. Her sweetness and charm
came back to him and he dweit upon
them and exaggerated them, till no
Venus, so far unearthed, could in any
way approach Mile. st. Denys Godoipb.
He would have liked to exterminate the
Giestin family, from the great grand
mother down to the babe unborn.
Perhaps Giestin suspected this un-
favorable attitude, for one morning he
piled his whole family and allhis effects
into wagons and went away, over into
that part of the parish known as l'Islo
des Mulatres.
Laballiere's really chivalrous nature
told him beside that he owed an apol-
ogy at least to the young lady who had
taken his within SO seriously. So he
crossed the bayou one day and pene.
trated into the wilds where Mime. St.
Depys Godolph ruled