The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1898-11-23

every ssepy.
"Ah, friend" said tho whinsical
Cyrano. 81 step more surely when eyes
send forth upon me shot Of hostile
looka embrace hatred, and she gives
me the ruff that holds my head up high
each enemy's another fold to bind the
more and add ray Of glory. For
hatred, like the ruff Of Spanish pattern,
grips like vice, but is an aureole. -
At last LIE Bret realizes the source Of
Cyrano's waywardness.
$50 say aloud. Be proud and bitter, !"
said lie Bret. "But whisper me Just
this, she does not love you.'
Scarcely had lie Bret's guess hit its
mark when the door swung open. and in
came Cyrano's successful rival, the
young Baron de Neuvilette. He made
his way quietly to table, but the Cas-
cons, inflamed by the victory Of their
brother In arms, were not minded to let
him be quiet They tainted him with
being northern greenhorn, sickly APP
prentice at the art Of war. They dared
him to try Cyrano. -
There's one among u.s." boosted q
cadet, "to whom you no more dare say
somewhat than cry rope at him
whose father died dangling at noose's
end"
Then he proceeded to eluoidate.
"Scof- a comment Of
Cyrano's nose, and your life is done, {"
said he.
"Ah, eo?' queried Christian.
Whereupon there was enacted the
strangest drama the bold cadets of Gas.
cony had ever seen. Cyrano began to
tell the story of his fight. At every Sec
ond he was interrupted by the new re-
cruit from Touraine with courteously
insolent queries about his nose and
with surmises as to the part it had
taken in the fray. The Gascons looked
for the stranger s humiliation. But Cy-
rano, though the veins in his face were
whipcords with suppressed rage, still
let young, Christian live and even
forced himself on with his tale. Finally
the strangers ;nsolence could no longer
be brooked.
"Leave me! Leave me with him !"
cried Cyrano to his friends, and they
passed out, believing that the end had
come for Christian.
But the promise to Roxane was all
that dwelt in Cyrano's memory.
embrace meI'' he said to Christian
when the room was cleared. Embrace
mel am her brother-her cousin
brother, and she loves you"
They talked together, the two men
who loved Roxane. They planned for
her. Christian admitted all his dull
ness. He was soldier, he said, and be-
fore women was tongue tied. Cyrano
promises to tutor him in wit.
"I'll daily teach your tongue, ;" said
he. "Only remember and repeat to her
the things I bid. So shall she never
have disillusion. Alone you fear to
chill her heart Take then my words
and so you shall win herl We'd them
to your lips. It will amuse me. It is a
good experience for poet. Will you
not do its''
The cadets come in, and, to their dis
gust, find the once staggering Cyrano
embracing Christian. A musketeer
mockingly laughs at the scene, where.
upon Cyrano cuffs his head, and the
cadets turn somersaults for joy to sec
that all the old spirit is not dead.
The wooing Of Roxane began. Daily
the lover, who could think and feel and
mold his thoughts to beauty, taught the
lover who was dumb. Daily Roxane,
hearing Cyrano's impassioned speeches
through Christian's chiseled lips, was
borne deeper and deeper into the ecstasy
Of love. Daily Roxane told her cousin
of her lovers wit and fancy. She read
Cyrano verses he had written, and when
he seemed scarce enthusiastic over them
she tainted him with being jealous of q
better poet than himself Then Cyrano's
eyes would fash with merriment, and
over his mismated face smile would
run. He was not altogether sad in those
days.
But Roxane's love for Christian was
confessed more freely to Cyrano than to
Christian himself, and as for the rest of
the world she hid it completely, fearing
the vengeance of the disappointed De
Guiche, who still pursued her with at
tentions. He had been made commander
Of the army. He had it in his power to
send her lover to death. She beguiled
him little now and then, and when
finally the orders came that the French
forces should proceed to Arras she ar
ranged with him that the company Of
Cyrano should be left behind-and in
that company was Christian, Of whom
the lord commander had not heard.
$50 you will be revenged upon my
cousin for his mockery Of your patron
age and his insolence to you, she said.
"He is very fire eater! How he will
gnash his teeth to be, with all his cadets,
left at home when there is fighting
afield!''
"Who but q woman would be subtle