Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1897-03-28

Then I shook the mood away. Was not
I a Sieur de la Benne? albeit the last
Could l not gain again what had lost!
NO. BaDtiste," ! continued, Il go into
the world. And where in the
world?-"for fortune, for name
And will not my Lords fortune be
| Bap.Sste Beraud's? Do you ask me to
leave you, my Lord,-whose ancestors
| have served my Lords ancestors! NO.
III follow you, and let the wage stay.
r leaned over my q have forgot. Jean
de Vitry's) horses head, and pressed
his hand
But Susanna in Auvergne?' I asked
at last. looking back, for he had fallen
to his place.
"She can wait. Let me see the world
There are girls and girls, and but one
! Sieur de la Renne.'
Thank God, but one," l muttered, as
we cantered along in the twilight to
nv lodging. a troop of the King $
! guard swept by. I did not notice. Hope
! reached swift to my heart. Yet when
7 came to my lodging door, the gloom
was over me. The landlord stood there,
threateningly; but pushed past IN
dudgeOn.
count will be settled
! I slammed the door in his malicious
! face. The candle iiickered, showing on
2 seals handle the three lions Of the
| Cieurs de In Renne, and the motto
| Non Wis. sed virtus' l laughed bit
| terlv. I had proven ! had no strength.
! Had l. either. a spark Of valor? | bur-
| led nv face in my hands on the table
T do not know how long | remained
thus. But presently I perceived l was
| hungry. | raised my head, looking
about disconsolately. I suppose | hao
been then a study for despair. Yet l
think il was not poverty, not hunger
| alone so much as the sense of my 20
sition. At the moment Baptiste came
Gathering up the stairs; he always has
retained some of the clumsiness OF the
! country servant
II have returned from the Count de
! Vitry's stables
so I perceive." I said ironically.
The Count Graves my Lords presence
at dinner
What did he wish Of me?
come Baptiste." I cried, having a
mind that ne too, should be led from
lie Vitry's kitchen.
And de Vitry himself met us at the
door. as if he would anticipate the
| lackev: and he readily devised my pur-
pos- in bringing Baptiste
Go down to the kitchen, my good
| fellow" he said to him, while he lock-
/ ed his arm in mine.
II am delighted TO see you he began
affably.
"As if anyone could be-" said l,
whcreupon he burst into laughter
My dear Michel" he said, you must
not be so down-cast. l am not about
10 demand the ten thousand francs
pCst-haste. To the contrary. l ask you
to allow me to call the account set
tied
~ Will pay all owe. But really, de
Vitry. it is SOod of YOU to say so much;
I assure you, I appreciate It,
For whipped dog will fawn on the
hand that mats. though secretly holding
If hateful: and ! confess that | could
NOT even then shake off a prejudice
AGAINST him, which, I know, many
shared.
In 1880. a man of forty-fve, the Count
de Vitrv. seeming strong. rich. success
m1 Inheriting estates heavily encum-
! hared. he had brought to Paris a
strange business shrewdness, had be
| come connected with the revenues. and
had accumulatd millions; till at that
time he was said 70 be as rich as the
Great Cardinal Mazarin-a millionaire
through a kings bounty. More than
hat. he was connected with many pri-
/ va+e schemes which had brought him,
j. was said. excellent returns, and he
was then identified with a land specu-
| Iatio1 in Louisiana. Needy adventures
locked 10 him with all possible enter
nrises: if some he encouraged. and 9th
e~s turned away. ne always had about
small army of needy sycophants and
time-servers. who knew him at heart
| false. and fattered him. And as I say.