The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1898-03-04

tenderness The poor girl died very sud-
denly, and there remained to Revere
only his dream, one of those remem-
brances of a Preside, one of those spec
tiers which brush the forehead with
their wings or the folds of their wind
ing sheets, when in the solitude in
which he has voluntarily buried him
self the searcher after adventures re-
calls the past-the past of yesterday,
illusions, disillusions, old loves. mis-
cries.
Revere gave TO this brother of the
dead girl the affection which he had
felt for her. He remembered also the
fathers request. Prades' son, passion
ate, eager to live. tempted in all his APP
petites. accepted as his due Rovere's
truly paternal devotion, worked ON the
sympathy of this man, who, through
pity and duty, too. gave to Charles a
little of the affection which he had felt
for the sister, almost his fiancee, and
for the father. dead by his own hand.
But, little by little, the solicitations,
the unreasonable demands of Prades.
who, believing that he had just claim
on his fathers old partner, found il
very natural that Revere should devote
himself TO him-these continual and
pressing demands became for the consul
irritating obsessions. Revere seemed TO
this young man, who was spendthrift
and gambler gambler possessed
with atavistio frenzy-a sort of living
savings bank, from which he could
draw without counting. His importu-
mites at last seemed fatiguing and ex-
cessive, and Prades was advised one
beautiful day that he no longer need
count from that moment on the generos-
ity of his benefactor. All this happened
at Buenos Ayres and about the time of
the consul's departure for France. Ro-
we're added to this very curt declaration
a last benefit. He gave to the brother
OF the dead girl, to the son Of Prades, |
of the firm of Revere & Prades, a sum
sufficient to enable him to live while |
waiting for better things, and he told |
the young man in proper terms that as |
he had now no one to depend upon that
he had better take himself elsewhere to |
be hung. The word could not be, with |
the appetites and habits of Charles
Prades. taken in figurative sense, and
the young man continued his life of adj
ventures, as tragic in their reality and |
as improbable as the reporters melo-
dramatic inventions.
Then, at the end Of his resources,
after having searched for fortune among
miners, weary of tramping about in
America, he embarked one morning for
Havre, with the idea that the best gold
mine was still that living placer which
he Lad exploited in Buenos Ayres and
which was called Pierre Revere.
AT Paris, where he knew the ex-consul
had retired, Prades soon found trace of
him and learned where was the retreat
Of his brotherin-law His brother in
law! He pronounced the word with
wicked sheer, as if it had for him
understood about the sweet
and maiden remembrance Of the dead
girl. There, in gay Paris, with some re-
sources which allowed him to pay for
MS board and lodging in third rate
hotel. he searched, asked, discovered
At last, the address of the ex-consul and
presented himself to Revere, who felt
1t sight of this specter his anger re-
urn.
The first time that Charles Prades
had asked at the lodge if NJ Revere was
1t home the Moniches had permitted
him to go up stairs, and perhaps Nine.