The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-08-01
CHATTER Xxx.


creeping through woodlands mantled In
I gray and brown and silver. till in the
/ deepest forest depths bird awakes and
/ ruffies and looks up amid a million tiny
| newborn leaves.
In Carhaix league upon league of moor
land grows sweet scented; the gorse Is
/ aromatic; the marsh is messed with
! spongy gold; the blue sea ripples like a
/ rive: gilded with ribbed sand, hecked
with reflections where white CLOUDS blow
and white gulls drift like wind-tossed
Three houses, woods. a chapel. aGc a
! shrine; miles of pink thorn. silvery cllffs.
All day long the sea swallows skim the
! inlet shores the silver mullet. shoal on
! shoal, crossing the bar, lace all the shall
| lows with their frothy ropes of foam. All
day long the lanconS spring above the
sands, quivering, shimmering, delicate as
| pale patterns in the shuttle of flying
| loom.
April he'd come to Carhaix Hide also
/ had come to Carhaix-back to her own
| country-for the blockade had ended at
! last, the gates of Paris were opened. and
J the long Prussian columns, marching
/ back, lined all the northern roads.
So she had come-her young heart
! vaguely wistful-to be welded in the Car
| haiX chapel where she had been baptized.
and where. all in filmy white. she had
| stolen through the dim alSleS, an aWed
communicate. For her, atonement did not
end at the confessional; there, only
sin might be put away, sadness was lifted
with the bridal wreath; sorrow ended
when the orange buds fell from her
| breast. AtOnement never ended, but It's
! bitterness would end like the memory
of evil the innocence of a blameless life.
I 1t seemed to her that all would be well,
l now that she had come back. In all the
world there was but this one place where,
with her child'S heart, heavy with mem
! cries, her woman's heart thrilling with
! love and repentance, she could come and
! kneel and go forth in peace forever.
The April sun cleaned through the
jewelled glass and fell in diamonds. stain
saw st. Hide of Carhaix. high in her
! plaster niche. azure robed. smiling her
placid smile among the shadows; she saw
Our Lady of the Cliffs. tinselled mag
nificent. holding the child by the dim
altar where waXen tapers burned and the
carved crucifix reared its slender arms.
And there her childhood came 10 meet her.
Again she saw the professional. the cross
sloft. Our Lady of the Cliffs passing
amid the kneeling crowd; again she heard
the fresh young voices swelling in the
wind, the chanting of the cure. the muir
INJURED prayer. The scene shifted sea-
ward-She saw the tempest and the misty
sea, the white coiffes on the headland,
the men on the shore; then, as 1t seemed,
years afterward she heard the bell tolling
in the chapel for lost souls.
She remembered her father. too, always
in the forest where the horns sounded all
day long and the hounds baying surged
and ebbed with the shifting wind. He lay
in the chapel yard. near the mother she
had never seen, buried. as he wished with
Z
ruined huntsman of a ruined race-the
landless relic of landed Breton line, old
as the ancient chapel, which was older
than CarhaiX.
A bird twittered on the chapel porch;
the vague odor of the sea stirred her
heart. She turned and looked back at the
altar where tomorrow she should kneel a
bride, then made her reverence and went
out into the sunny world.
Yolette sat on the cliffs looking off to
sea. Bourke lay full length beside her,
f1I,ff TOoI
Riding Hood. who. skirts tucked up, pad
died blissfully in the thin films of water
along the shining sands below
icay INSPECTING r9o' esP e eaG ra ' Of
smoke on the horizon. When he heard
Hides voice on the cliffs above him he
climbed up slowly, for he was still little
lame and met her, smiling.
THE child down there is in the seventh
heaven" he said she's been nipped by
crab and bruised by the rocks. and when
she's half drowned she'll be contented.
fancy"
ITS curious" said Bourke looking up,
that the Paris papers have not come.
The last mail arrived here on March Is,
and here it is April -
"A mail did come: 1 brought it down
but | went into the chapel and forgot,
said Hide
Nobody expects brides to remember
said Bourke. sarcastically; do you mind
letting me see my mail?'
Yolette looked up laughing as Hide
calmly DdnQeQ the letters 10 HARDWOOD.
That young man sorted the papers, tossed
a package and a parcel over to Bourke.
and said: There's only one letter; it's for
me-.
Bourke began to open the parcel; it
was sealed and deliberately tied with a
sort of rope.
Hello! What in the name of
gold watch and chain. Why, the packet
is directed TO you. Jim
Hardwood looked up blankly from the
letter he was studying, then groaned and
handed the letter to Hide.
Read it, he said; Il can't It's from
the Mouse
In the midst of a breathless silence
Hide took the letter and examined it in
CONSERVATION. Then she read slowly:
Belleville, Both of March, 1871.
Monsieur take my pen in hand, hop
sieur in as good health as | am. | have
TO inform monster that the weather is as
usual. We took the Hotel de Vile and
killed General Lecomte and Clement
Thomas in garden. 1t is raining, but l
am quite comfortable. having been made
captain in the national guard, and find
myself much better, with nothing to do.
THE Commune has been established
and there is food and drink for all and no
work. We frightened the bourgeoisie pass
ably well, and Theirs has run away, where
we expect that the citizen. Major Flour
ems. will catch him and shoot them ALL
as they are aristocrats and most perfidi-
Gus to the poor
Il have to inform monsieur that 1 wish
him health. also to Mile. Hide. to NJ
BOurke and to Madame, lately Mile Yo-
lette. Also to the thin, drolI little one
who was afraid of me- [ send her some
forks.
1.-The weather continues rainy. 1 send
to monsieur a watch; also to Mile Hide
for her wedding, star. To NJ. Bourke
and to madame l send many spoons
Therefore, adieu. Your comrade.
THE MOUSE
Citizen Captain. National Guard. Unat-
tached.
Il wish also to say adieu to the little
droi one who is afraid of me-
Bourke would have laughed but Hides
horror-struck face sobered him.
What on earth shall we do with that
plunder?" said Hardwood; the creature
has been Dillaging women and children
'You and your citizen friend must set
tie that" said Bourke, trying not TO
laugh.
These spoons and forks have al sorts
of initials on them. The watch is marked
lady named Mini. Jim, believe this time
that the Commune means business
He looked at Yolette, who shook her
head decidedly. saying:
If you think you are going to write
about it for your stupid newspaper. /
have the honor. monsieur, to inform you
that YOU shall not:''
Hardwood looked at Hide smiling
family.
Il suppose 1 must go to Paris if you
send me" he said.
IF l send you" murmured Hide: ives
you may go then"
They turned and looked at the house on
the hill. The morning sun glittered on
every pane; they saw Scheherazade
sDrawled on the porch blinking at the
ocean: they heard the sarcastic croak of
the parrot. Mehemet Ali. tip-toeing down
the garden among the hyacinths.