The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1901-07-17

) yon wish FOR something which would
i be acceptable to you in the life you
Iead!'
q have already named the only thing
i j desire,
20 be forgotten? q sad wish. Nay,
surely life in a regiment Of Africa can
not be so cloud1ess that it can create in
/ you no other g
1T is not. / have another"
hen tell it to me; it shall be graf
4 fled. z
1T is to enjoy a luxury long ago lost
forever. It is to be allowed to give the
slight courtesy of gentleman with
out being rendered the wage of sery-
4 AMI.
She understood him. She was NOV
Led, too, by the infection of his voice.
She was not so cold. not so negligent,
as the world called her.
Il had passed my word to grant it. /
cannot retract," she answered him aft
er a pause. II will press nothing more
on you. But, as an obligation to me,
can you find no way in which a rouleau
/ OF gold would benefit your men?''
No way that l can take it for them.
But If you care indeed to do them a
/ few flowers for there are those among
them who love howers9 sent to the hos
/ pital will bring many benedictisas on
your name, madame They lie in in
4 finite misery there
Il will remember" she said simply
/ '.Adieu, Mr.. Corporal, and if YOU should
] think better of your choice and will al
to his majesty send me word through
q my people. There is my card
4 The carriage Whiried away down the
crooked street. He stood under the
taWny awning of the Moorish house
with the thin glazed card in his .hand.
4 On it was printed:
Madame Ia Princesse Corona DANA.
4 que. Hotel Corona, Paris
4 In the corner was written villa All
4 aussa, AlgierS.' He thrust it in the
4 folds Of his sash and turned within.
& do you know herr" he asked Ben
Arsli.
4 The old man shook his head.
i .'she is the most beautiful of thy
many fair Frankish women. | never
saw her till today. She seemed to have
an interest in thee my son. But listen
i here. Touching these ivory toys, il thou
4 dost not bring henceforth to me all the
:, work in them that thou doest thou
Z shalt never come here more to meet the
4 light of her eyes
a lens hand.
/ 81 kept them away because you would
4 have given me a hundred piastegs' for
!, what had not been worth one. AS for
& her eyes, they are stars that shine on
{ another world than an African troop
ers So best."'
Yet they were the stars of which he
thought more, as he Wended his way
back to the barracks, than of the splen-
: did consultations of the Algerian even
. ing. Meantime the. Princess Corona
drove homeWard- homeward to where
a a temporary home had been made by
her in the most elegant of the many
: snow white villas that stud the sides
of the Sahel and face the bright bow
of the sunlit bay. She passed from
i her carriage to her own morning room
and sank down on couch little
listless and weary with her search
. among the treasures of the Algerian
; bazaars.
mot one of those things do want
not one shall | look at twice. The
money would have been better at the
soldiers hospital" she thought while
4 her eyes dWelt on a chess table near
q her--a table on which the mimic hosts
of chasseurs and Arabs We're ranged
in opposite sqDadrons. She took the
!, white king in her hand and gazed at
it with certain interest.
That man has been noble once
i she thought. What a fate! What a
cruel fate! How bitter his life must
\ be! When Philip comes, perhaps he
will know some way to aid him. And
i yet-Who can serve a man who only
q desires to be forgotten z"
IuGll, Will -+0677tdlll sense
of some absurd discrepancy, of some
unseemly OCCUPATION. in her thus dwell
8 ing on the wishes and the burdens Of a
corporal of lislh.Avalry, she laughed a
q little and put the white king back once
more in his place. Yet even as she set
the king among his mimic forces the
very carvings themselves served to re-
tain their artist in her memory.
4 There was about them an indescrib-
able elegance, an exceeding grace and
beauty, which spoke of knowledge of
art and of refinement of taste far be-
You'd those of mere military amateur
4 in the one who produced them.
What could bring a man of that tai
ent, with that address. into the ranks -
she unused. :. Persons of good family,
of once fine position, come here. they
say, and live and die unrecognized an
der the imperial flag. It is usually