The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-10-22

see how We are TO please them
Cannon raised his alert red head after
/ a moments thought.
Faith. ia show them round, sir. That
would crafty them anyway"
The commandaut rose abruptly from the
/ table.
Don't be fool, Pat" he said. testify.
! Il rather relied upon YOU for q sugges-
ton. ] tell you &c seems to me just one
of those stupid dllemmas that q little tact
should HELM one out Of. Yet 1 can't see
my way TO f."
Just so. sir. / wouldn't show 'em round
all al once. Ia let them see things by
I degrees-round the northeast batteries, for
instance"
You don't mean--. Why, they VIII
see"
Il can arrange all they will be inter
ested In seeing in forty-eight hours, sir.
They'll be off in a week-after that"
Leonard suddenly burst into a great
laugh, as his suhatern's meaning grew
clear to him.
Cad yes, Pat-show EN- round"
Many things fell out as Cotdelia Len
nard had foreseen, also some other things
which she had nOt-openiy at leasts-pre-
dicted. The formal visits were exchaug-
ed the formal invitations to the custom
airy dinner were sent out 10 the Loup-ea-
rou by a yellow messenger in a little white
boat. And meantime Pal Cannon sweated
and shaved and swore, and hardly gave
himself time to sleep while ne worked con-
tinuous gangs Of men along the galleries
Of the Old northeast front The mound for
the three days was as busy as an ant-hill,
although from the outside IL appeared
empty and placid enough and Capt Nero
vinge remarked 10 Francois that nothing
was more offensive about the English than
their arrogant folly, which allowed them
to take matters with SO easy an indifer-
once that they were absolutely doing noth-
ing 10 strengthen an important station
such as Fort Tcheu while the mob in
Paris were shouting "A bas Albloni'
"Conspuez Albionl" and the papers tenn
ed with hatred and menace. He confessed
the British feet TO be a sufficiently for
midable organization, but the army-what
of that? Contempub.y small, broken and
fragmentary. already dispersed to the four
winds of the empire-could not the gallant
soldiers OF France pick them off the face
Of the earth as a fowl swallows insects on
q rainy day? In these and many more tell
ing SMILES did Capt. MeroVinge indulge In
fact. had Britain been preparing herself at
all points for war she would but have
given another evidence of her ancient and
inalienable perfidy; yet, since she seemed
to be merely going about her own bust
ness as usual and with serenity, the i'm
aginary insult flung in the face of France
appeared doubly bitter and unforgivable In
the eyes of the officers of the Loup-garou
But that is the way of Frenchmen.
Ignorance is the mother of a numerous
family of wrongs, thus Pat Cannons ener-
eetic DAYS and nights went by entirely I'M
appreciated by those who watched and
waited in the bay under the very mouths
of the guns which claimed so much of his
beauty-sleep.
Rut Whatever it might be to the others,
there was one person to whom the week
was a time of feverish pleasure and ex-
element. Francois went ashore with
Merovinee and was agreeably dsapp0int
e1 in the daughter Of the commandant of
Fort Toheu. She was blonde, and her
teeth were not In evidence except when
she smiled ana then-Francois pressed
one band to his heart and blew away
kiss with the other when he recalled 1t.
She was dlstractingly pretty, and pos
sessed of a soft frankness Of manner which
is not to be met with on the southern
side OF the Eastern channel, He found that
his inclinatlons and his duty to France led
for once in the same direction. He paid
Cordela the most adorable compliments
and admired himself prodigiously in the
process. In fine. he did everything to in
gratate himself with Mile. Lennard that
could be expected even from one of his
gallant nation.
The dinner party ashore was a grand
affair for the place and cline Old wines
came up from the bowels of the fort.
Capt. Merovinge spoke wittily of the arts,
of Paris, with an airy pointedness of
Cairo and then passed on with a fine en-
th0siasm to dwell on the twin services
and their affection for each other. While
Francois speaking into the small, she'll
like ear, dwet at length upon the sad
beauty of the night on music on song, on
-well-amatory problems. His original de-
sire to ingratiate himself into the good
graces OF the English girl for a time, had
l,,rt ba - = a
into resolve to win her favor for always.
1t matters not at all that the Frenchman's
always" is often bounded by the day af-
ter tomorrow.
Let II be owned. and at once. that Cor
della behaved outrageously Col. Leonard
did not appear 10 notice Pat Cannon, who
had spent the whole night and part of the
day in his shirt-sleeves working like a
NAVY with successive gangs of men be-
hind the northeast face of the fertilization.
ii he disapproved, DID so unobtrusively, AMI
the French commander beamed propitous.
ly around him. AS for Francois, cold Eng
llsh cannot convey his sentiments.
After dinner they went up TO the roof,
and the young Frenchman murmured In
the moonlight of loneliness.
"Ycs, | am very lonely-sometimes," adj
mitted Cordelia with a little air of sad
ness which seemed from the heart.
Speak to me-tell me of your lonely
hours, mademOlSeHe, can Ieef lof you.
l also have been lonely"
Mademoiselle merely smiled dvinely.
She knew better than TO infict her
thoughts on Francois. With a woman $
art she put the next question.
"How can you know? You have compan-
ions, friends"
Companions? What are they" he re
piled. THE soul is lonely and full OF long
ing until the happy hour arrives when all
the solitude IS made up for by the touch
of that one adorable sympathy man has
to dream OFF,
Cordela sazed out across the shining
water to where the spars of the Loup-ga-
rou trembled in shadow on the tide
la recompense," she said, in a low tone
then, shaking her head slowly she added;
"But such meetings are rare"
Rare, yes''-he ventured TO bend to-
wards her; but not unknown. Say to me,
impfore you, not unknown"
Cordelia allowed him to meet a flying
glance from under her long lashes. THE
delight of such rencounter is enhanced
by its rarity" he continued. "Mademoiselle
Win a