The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-12-04

that she may bring me some tomorrow"
Presently was heard a light and regu-
lar breathing. The child was asleep!
But the poor outcast could not rest.
a tender and poignant emotion seemed
10 thrill her heart and she thought. over
ana over again, remorsefully of her own
lost baby
This lasted until daybreak
La Fleuriotte's child meanwhile slept
peacefully and soundly clasped in its
mothers arms
The Bretonne arose. glided noiselessly
outside the hut and began walking rapidly
TACK In the direction OF Auberive, nor did
she slacken her pace until she came
within sight of the first houses. She
walked slowly up the single street Of the
town searching as she went the signs
above the shops. Toward the end OF the
street one In particular arrested her at
tertiOn.
she raped on the shutters until they
were opened,
10 was q dry goods store but il also con-
taned ch'idren's toys poor toys: cheap
toys: with all their freshness gone: card
ftrd dolls. NOah's arks and shepherds
AID their fiocks
To the great establishment of the clerk.
la Bretonne bought them all. paid for
them and departed.
She had taken the road which led to the
hut or La Fleuriotte when a hand came
down heavily on her shoulder. She turned
round and started violently She was
face To face with a brigadier de gen
darmcrie
The unfortunate creature had forgotten
that a released prisoner was forbidden to
remain In the neighborhood OF the House
OF Correction
: Instead of vagabondizing here" said
the brigadier sternly. you ought to have
been already at Iangres. Come march -
N MI al hut he rnTf16 Gfen
to no explanation. In an instant he had
summoned a cart, bundled her into II I'M
der the escort Of a gendarme and off they
started on the road back to the prison
which she had only left the night before.
hoping to never see IL again. The cart
rolled on. jolting over the icy road, the
poor Bretonne. speeches., but still clasp
ing mechanically between her half-frozen
fingers the packet Of toys.
At n turning in the road she recognized
the path leading TO the woodchopper's
hut
Her heart bounded and she entreated
and begged with such passionate earnest
ness to be allowed TO speak but a few
words of farewell to La Fleuriotte that
the gendarme was moved. He tied his
horse TO n tree and entered the pathway
with the woman.
Before the door Of the hut they found
la Fleuriotte chopping wood.
companied by gendarme. she STOOD
aghast with open mouth and hanging
arms.
"Hushi' said the Bretonne softly. II.
the child still asleep"
YES" said the mother but
place these things gently upon the be,
that she may not awaken and when sh'
does, tell her st. Catherine has sent then
to her. | returned TO Auberive this morn
ing to get them for her and II appears
] had no right to DO so. Therefore they
are taking me back to prison"
May God have mercy upon usH' cried
the other woman in horror.
Then together they .crept to the bedsid,
OF the sleeping child. followed by the es
ccrt.
La Bretonne spread out on the coverle
the dolls. the Noahs arks and the shep-
herds and their fiocks. kissed the bare
arm Of the rosy, dreaming child, and
turning TO the gendarme. who was wipine
his eyes, said:
Now. let US GO"