Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1896-05-14

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vannes"
then his reputation! Though we knew
little of the worlds wickedness, all we
did know had come to us linked with
his name. We had heard Of him as q
duellist, as a bully, an employer OF
braves. At Jarnac he had been the
last to turn from the shambles. Men
called him cruel and vengefnl even for
those days--gone by now, thank God!
and whispered his name when they
spoke of asassinations; saying COM
monty of him that he would not blench
before n Guise, nor blush before the
virgin.
Such was our visitor and neighbor,
Raoul de Mar, Vidame de Beers. AS
he sat on the terrace, now cycling us
askance, and now paying Catherine a
compliment, I likened him to u great
cat before which butterfly has all
unwittingly firted her prettiness.
Poor Catherine! No doubt she had
her own reasons for uneasiness; more
reasons, | fancy, than l then guessed.
For she seemed to have lost her voice.
She stammered and made but poor re-
plies; and Nine. Claude being deaf and
stupid, and we boys too timid after the
rebuff we had experienced to fill the
gap, the conversation languished.
The yidame was not for his part the
man to put himself out on hot day
1t was after one Of these pauses-not
the first but the longest-that started
on finding his eyes fixed on mine.
More, | shivered. 1t is hard to describe,
but there was look in the vidame' -
ewes Mt that moment which l had never
seen before. A look of pain almost; OF
dumb savage alarm at any rate. From
INC they passed slowly to Marie and
mutely Intercepted him. Then the
vidamc's glance travelled back to Cath
crime, and settled on her.
Only moment before she had been
hut too conscious of his presence. Now,
as 1t CHANGED by bad luck, or in the
course of Providence, something had
drawn her attention elsewhere. She
was unconscious of his regard. Hel
own eyes were fixed in far-away gaze
Her color was high, her lips vert
parted, her bosom heaycd gently.
The shadow deepened Oh the vidame'
face Slowly he took his eyes from
hers, and looked northwards also.
Caylus Castle stands on rock in thu
middle of the narrow valley of tina
name. The town clusters about TIN
lodges of the rock so closely that wher
| was a boy could fling stone clear o
,bo houses The hills are scarcely 50
' .n aistant On either side rising /,
,a,,"n no,ors from tho green field
ohort the brook II is possible iron
Ava torraco "a GOO tbe whole valley an,
tne road which masses through /
,,nrthv;ss Cotberinc's eyes were o.
tha nortberr extremity Of the defl,
: wv ,ho h;,,hnoy from Cabors dc
} "i'eie 'io NY n""' ,o' e,,'r,,
scenes from .ne up'""os' 'n' i,"u Wv
, slttlng WIN her iace 'u'i'' ''''' wa
all the AFTERNOON
t l looked tha' way 'oo' soi'."l
horseman was descending 'ne s'ee
J, track from the mis-
: Mauemolseiic. o,'eu '"' , ,,ual.
!. suddenly we al iooheu up Ills .ol
( was such that 'he color neu from nv
n face. There was something III MS No''
n she had never heard III any voice U
n fore-something that 10 woman WI
). like blow. M ma. nn.9S Irer
h , ,. s.o,,, ,en l~rar r have the hon,
n no' . i-o,i ns AZ 4. pa,ornos on y
W No"s ~
d 'oni'e,' ,,., s.ho,or
it nm u. n"u "a, s,,ano. a. insrl.