The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1896-03-04

times lacked. recognized that / hac
TO do, not with a king, but dog; and
that none the less that way lay re
yenge And i rose up and skunk agair
into st. Antoine, and through the
crowd and up the Rue de st. Martin and
by st. Merri, dirty, ragged, barefoot
rascal from whom people drew their
slxirts-yes, all that, and the light OF
the sun on it-all that, and yet ven.
geance itself, the hand that should ye,
drag my thanlless, cruel masters
fauteuil from under him.
Once halted, weighing thsrisks and
whether / should not take my knowl
edge to the cardinal. But knew moth.
ing definite, and hardening my heart
/ went on, until l reached the alley
between the blind walls. III was noon;
the alley was empty. the neighborine
lane empty. Hooked this way and that,
and then went slowly down to the door
at which the man had halted, but to
which as soon as he knew that the
game was not lost, he had been heed.
full not to return.
There, seeing all so quiet, with the
green of a tree showing here and there
above the wall, began to blench and
wonder how / was to take the next
step; and for half an hour, dare say,
sneaked to and fro, now in sight of the
door and now with my back to it.
afraid to advance and ashamed TO re.
treat. At length l went through the
alley, and seeing how quiet and re.
spectacle il lay with the upper part OF
the house visible at intervals above the
wall, L took, at last, heart of grace and
tried the door.
IL stood so firm that despaired, and,
after listening, and looking TO assure
myself that the attempt had not been
observed, L was about to move away
when i espied the edge of the ring oi
key projecting from under the door.
Still all was quiet; steaithy look
round, and had the key out. To draw
back now was to write myself craven
C)l my life, and with shaking hand
thrust the wards into the lock, turned
them, and in another moment stood
ON the other side of the door IN neat
garden, speckled with sunshine and
shade, and all silent
/ remained full minute, fiattened
against the door; staring fearfully at the
high-fronted mansion that beyond the
garden looked down on me with twelve
great eyes. But all remained silent,
and observing presently that the win.
dows were shuttered, j took courage
to move, and slid aside under tree and
breathed again.
Still l looked and listened, fearful.
ly, for the silence seemed to watch me;
but nothing happened and everything
i saw tended to prove the house empty.
! grew bolder and sneaking from bush
To bush, reached the door at last, and
with backward glance between cour.
age and desperation tried il.
1t was locked. hut that ] hardly
noticed; for, as my hand left tho latch,
from some remote part of the house
came the long-drawu whine of a dogl
l stood, listening and turning hot
and cold in the sunshine; and dared
not touch the latch again lest Others
should hear the noise, Instead stole
out OF the doorway, and crcpt round
the house and round the house again,
hunting for a back entrance. found
none; but Mt last, yoaded by the re.
Election that fortune would never be
so nearly within my grasp, marked
Il window on the first floor, and in the
side of the house, by which /. seemed
TO me / might enter. A mulberry tree
stood by it and it lacked n shutter;
and other trees veiled the spot. To be
Lrief, in two minrtes l had my knee
on the sill, and sweating with terror
forced the easement in. and droppcl
on The floor.
Then l stood an instant, listening;
i'm bare room, the door Of which stool
njar. Somewhere in the bowels of the
house the deg whined again; otherwise
all was still-deedly still. At length,
cmboldaned by the silence l crept out
and stole along d passage seeking the
way down.
The passage was dark, end every
toard on which l stepped shreked the
alarm. Brt felt my way to The land.
ing at the head of the stairs, and was
about 10 descend when some impulse,
] know not what--lerhaps n shrinking
from the dark parts below, 10 which
| was about TO entrust myself-moged
me to open one of the shutters and
peer out.
/ did so, cautiously and but n little,
and found myself looking, not into the
garden through which had passed. but
into the one beyond the alley; and there
on scene so strange and yet apropos TO
my thoughts that paused, gaping.
On n plat of grass four men were
standing, two and two; between them.
with nose upraised and scenting this
way and that. moved beautiful black
ond-tan spaniel. The eyes OF all four
men were riveted to the dog. which. as
] looked. walked sedately first 20 the
one pair, and then. as II dissatisfied. TO
the other pair; and then again stood
midway and shifted the air. The men
were speaking. but I could not catch
even their voices. and was reduced %
drawing what differences / could from
their Appearance