The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1901-08-28

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| Et.sHHsg Vague memories remained with
tfsD him of. wandering over the
snadoWy country, Of seeking by bodily
fatigue to kill the thoughts rising in
! him. The full consciousness of all
! that he had surrendered in yielding up
| lfresh his heritage rolled in on his
4 Memory like the wave of some heavy
sea that sweeps down all before it. he
moved slowly back over the desolates
! tracks of land stretched between him
and the Algerian hating place. He
1 had no fear that lie would find his
brother there. He knew too well the
mature with which he. Lad to deal.
i While yet the carayansary. was distant
{ the piteous cries Of a mother goat
caught his ear. She was bleatirg be-
I side a water course, into which her Kid
/ of that spring had fallen. He stopped
and with some little difficulty rescued
I the little goat for its delighted dam.
AS he bent over the water he saw
/ something glitter beneath it. He caught
| tin his hand and brought it up. It
N was the broken half Of: a chain of gold.
with a Jewel in each link He changed
!, color as he saw it. He remembered it
as one that Venetia Corona had worn
on the morning that he had been adj
| nlitted to her. He stood looking at the
! shining links, with their flashes Of pre-.
cious stones. They, seemed to have
1 voices that spoke to- him Of her about
| whose beautiful white throat they had
| been oyen-voices that whispered IN
/ cessantly i'll his ear. Take up 8yoI,
| birthright. and you will be free to sue
| to her at least. if not to win her" No
i golden and jeweled pIaything ever.
tempted starving man to theft as this
tempted him now to break the pledge
I he had Just given.
| His birthr:ght! He longed for 1T for
!! this Woman's sake-for the sake. at
least. of the right to stand before her
as an equal and to risk. his chance with
! others who sought her smiIe-as Il es
had never done for any other thing
which. with that heritage. would have
become his. Yet he knew that. even.
| were he to be false to his word and go
/ forward and claim his right. he would
never be able to prove his innocence
/ He could never hope to make the
world believe him unless the real Grim
inal made that cont, ession which 10
held himself forbidden by his own .. st
action ever to extort
It was almost noon when. under the
/ sun scorched branches of the pine that
stretched its somber fans up against.
the glittering azure of the morning
skies, he approached the gates of the
| Algerine house Of call. a study for the
colors of Gerome, with the pearly gray
| of its stone tints and the pigeons
wheeling above its corner towers.
L Cecil went within and bathed and
dressed and drank some OF the thin.
i cool wine that found its way hither in
the wake Of the French army. TIE
trampling of horses on the pavement
below reused his attention A thrill
of hope went through him that his
brother might have lingering con
science. latent love enough to have
I made him refuse to obey the. bidding
to leave Africa He rose and leaned
out. Amid the little throng Of riding
S1OISeS,4s SIOOlHS& dlu s5 dIIGlQlnfS WHO
made an open way through the poly
glot crowd of an Algerian caravan
sary st noon he saw the one dazzling
face Of which he had so lately drea M
ed by the water freshet ID tile plains.
It was but moments glance. for she
had already dismo unted from her mare
and was passing within with two
other ladies Of her party. But ii that
one glance he knew her. He went
down into the court below and found
her suit.
Tell your mistress that 1, Louis
Victor, have some jewels which belong
to her and ask her permission to re-
store them to her hands, 4 lie said to-
one OF her equerries.
g i've them to me if You have picked
them up, said the man, putting out
n his hand for the en-. ISL
Cecil closed his hand upon them. II
81 and do as 1 bid you. 4
The equerry paused doubtful wIetl-
4 81. 81 not to Iesis 1le and the