Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1896-09-17
THE MAGIC SKIN,
III
The Agony.

seek out the old and devoted serFltor
of whose affection he knew that ne
was secure.
II should like to speak with NJ
Raphael, sir said the elderly person
To Jonathan, as he climbed up the
steps some way into shelter from ne
rain.
ITO sneak with my Lord the Mar
ouis?" the steward cried. He scarcely
speaks even to me, his foster father!
"But | am likewise his foster faith
er. said the old man, IF your wire
was his foster mother, fed him my
self with the milk Of the Muses..
aAh, Dir, then you are N. Porriquet?
But IA the marquis Ill, sir?' the pro-
fess0r continued
my dear sir" Jonathan replied,
heaven only knows what Is the matter
with my master Ny Lord the Mar
mis had this hotel purchased for NM
Il formerly belonged to n duke and
peer of France; then he spent 100000
francs over furnishing IL. Good said
I to myself when saw this magnili-
cence. Ii is just like it used to be IN
the time OF my lord his late grand
father. and the young marquis is going
TO entertain all Paris and the COURT
Nothing Of the lind! My lord refused
to see anyone whatever It's a funny
life that he leads, NJ. Porriquet, you
Understand An inconciiable, lie
rises every day at the same time. | am
the only person, you see, who may
enter his room. open the shutters at
Z o'clock, summer or winter. It Is all
arranged very oddly AS | come in |
say TO him
You must get up and dress, my
lord marquis.
.Then he rises and dresses himself
have to give him his dressing gown,
and 1t is always after the same pattern
and OF the same material. am Obliged
to replace it when it can be used no
longer, simply to save him the trouble
of asking for a new one,
Jonathan left the old schoolmaster
In the yestibule. signing to him 10
come no further and soon returned
with a favorable answer He led the
old gentleman through one magniti-
cent room after another, where every
door stood open AT last Porriquet be-
held his pupil at some distance seated
beside the fire.
Raphael was reading the paper
The intense melancholy that prcycd
upon him could be dscerned In his Ian
guild posture and feeble frame; II was
depicted on his brow and white face
he looked like some plant bleached by
darkness
Good day. Pere Porrlquet," SAID
Raphael pressing the old school-mas
ter's frozen fingers in his own hot,
damp ones. how are you?"
Parriuuet spent an hour in telling
him about the prosecutions directed
against him ever since the revolution
of July
Too late Raphael called to mind the
verbose eloquenco and elegant circum-
loeutions which in a long professional
career had grown habitual to his old
tutor and almost regretted that he had
admitted him. but just as he was about
to wish to sec him safely outside n
promptly suppressed his secret desire
with stcathy glance al the Wild ASS
Skin. II hung there before him. fas.-
ened down upon some white material.
surrounded by i red line traced accur-
ately about its prophetic outlines
since that fatal carousc Raphael hal
stined every least whim, and had lived
50 as not TO cause the slightest move.
mont IN the terrible talisman. The
Wild ASS Skin was like tiger with
which he must live without exciting S
feroeity He bore patiently therefore
with the old school-master's prouXity.
Potrtquet came to entreat his former
pupils interest with the new minister.
He did not ask to be reinstated, but
only for a position at the head Of some
provincial school
Well my dear Porriquet." he said
i wish very heartily that YOU may
succeed
All at once Raphael sprang to his
feet like n startled rochuck. He saw
4 thin white line between the black
rieee 81 hide and the red tracing about
Il and gave 4 cry 50 fearful that tue
poor professor was frirhtcuca Nm it
Old fool 60" hc cried "You MIN
rs appointed II head master Couldn't
you have asked ME for an annuity IN
IL