Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-10-01
Marie Acts.

AT vineyard near place called Cler-
mont
How do you know? You have not seen
herr
Yes. Marie / have seen her.
Poor thing, She is awfully ILL., One saw
1t already weeks ago. Does she bear it
well? Is she well, Armand"
To me her face seemed almost like the
face of a dying woman, Marie
Oh shrieked Marie, burying her face,
PIERCED with pity. How gentle. how good
she is, And to be treated SOL!
It's hard on poor Nansittart, certainly"
done it. Armand?"
ION. the Emperor Wilhelm, no doubt"
Well can't, / cant think that she
said, frowning with thought.
Why not, birdie?'
Gould any gentleman do such a thing"
'No-but then he is not d gentleman
What, aren't all kings gentlemen?''
Not by any manner of means
Nv ell, ! can't understand it,
That is the fact pretty
He has such a noble face
who, WiIhelm?"
Yes
He did not 20 this wickedness with his
face, he did it with his nlerciIess heart and
BRAIN
Suppose only say suppose, Armand
that all the time he knows not one word
of the matter"
Armand was seeing with his eye, which is
reason; Marie, with that deep, inner eye,
which is instinct. The wisest man is foolish
in comparison with a woman who sees with
her soul.
Suppose" she said after a silnece, that
truth"
That who went 10 whom?"
That you went to Wilhelm
All right, can see that you are tired of
ME. You want me to go and get hanged"
oh: Would he hang you, them"
He would.
wi nat wretch
But there is no need. In an hours time
you will see Mrs Vansittart here. Vansit-
tart has s,nt a troop Of chasseurs to fetch
her
So Marie was comforted, and waited. But
III hours time Evelyn did not come, and
the troop of cnasSeurs did not come.
AT ~ O'Clock they mad not arrived.
For NassIttart the waiting killing.
He hid himself away wh=rC no eye could
watch his now craven and demoralized Ge-
spair.
AT II 30 half a dozen Of the chasseurs Of
the expedition, with FoIiiet and Montsaioy
among them. arrived. with blackened
clothes ana scOTched faces. They Iad
tale Of Diteous defeat to tell.
While II was yet dark they had sur
rounded The farm house, secretly, as they
thought Then. finding every aperture
closed. they had set to work to pick the
lock OF the front door. The operation how
ever, was neither uOlseIcsS nor very speedy
and while 1t was in progress they must
have been heard from within. FINALLY they
broke in i body into the house Only six
or seven Of the troop remaining without as
a guard. When they entered the house
they found within it not a single living be-
ing.
As they searched around in wonder. the
building. and they with it. went skyward
in a fearful explosion. Most Of the chas-
seCrs inside and surrounding the house had
Deer scOrched and two killed E'oluct had
then posted to C1CrmOnt Tor the gendarrn-
erie. with the idea Of bombarfing the Gel
lars, and 1t was the bomburdrnent of the
cellars which had retarded the return of
the remaining chaSSeurs to 1fraVeIOtre Bur
tHey found the cellars empty The. Ger
mans had escaped under cover If the dense
darkness. presumably by distant egresses.
taking their prisoner with them
SUch was the tale of defeat and disaster
which Folliet had to tell. He had come in
person to tell It. undertaking the bitter
taSA as a seif-impOsed punishment for his
failure. 'A ms
Where now was hope? Evelyn had van
fore. '9tieu oe-
The truth was that there was no hone
heart Of Marie >'' ''''O
She lost half an hour in useless vvaanir,,.
theh' when she understood definitely th5t
eseES DvdJ' even heT gOdIiHe armand was
a. a. q us "hat next 70 10. she slipped away
from hlIi- assembled to her room mn a,, y
DAINTY little Partisan bonnet and Eer a,rot.as
ana, by back stair. stealrhirv went dnu,n
mo lhe garden Of the inn; elcnce irtc the
village street, and al the end Of it asked
s0ihe one lhls strange query: What was
the way to Metz? was
The way was pointed out to her. and she
look u without any idea Of the difficulties
~, ~ 1iheets sue would have TO surlnoLnt
mat Gay before reaching her Destination
Inere Were the French Iinas-fherH -.
me German lines: these had Ia ~ -,
Al IAe hrst she met wi,n lists IuIt eecaned
IvI''@St- Al the second she was rouptIv
h s.s several times on the mouth bv a
sShtlhel and then ordered back on the TIad
she had come. " INC Io'id
But with every defeat the wild finttar,,,,,
a. heF HttFt with which she had set 90,
ltsSened- Her Will CONCEALED u-ith? out
, escaped from the kisses of the So
sLnsI' weeping no longer with fear. but with
~ every step she grew bolder
9Ie made i wide detour and crossed ,ba
-h0S+.Ie- BY the eastward gat. tbrandL
"IIch the market people of Lnrraina
slreained 70 bring their produce to Tho cit
az, S1iS entered Metz But instead of the
had
thOuSht TO travel, she had Travelled fiftea,
She was faint now and pale and very
weary IL was late in the afternoon. Her
eyes had in them the wistfulness Of ~
pilgrim. VI 'hs
her object was TO speak personally. fac.
70 race with the emperor of the Germans
SeTerAi umes now she stopped dead. an
paired by the bigness of the entaTnrisa
she remembered the difficulties she had en-
colntered once when she wished to snea K
70 MT EaHSittart; and this was an emnnr-
or IL she had run with the footmen ana
they mad wearied her how could she con-
tend with horses?
10 her immense surprise and joy destiny
20 ordered 1t that she found not the least
difficulty in speaking with Wilhelm Sba
had asked the way TO the Hotel de Ville
ana as she came to it there was Wilhelm
Just descending the marble stairway OUT
soc the entrance portal. surrounded BY
oHicers A moment and Marie's heart gave
one transcendent bound; the next she had
oarted agilely up the steps, pressed through