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CHAPTER VIII-Continued.
"a headache from the sun, no more,
madame"
"That is quite bad enough. Your
service must be severe"
Indulgence"
II suppose not. You have served
long?"
t~uTwelve years, madame
"And your name"
Louis VICTOR She fancied there
was a slight abruptness in the reply,
as though he were about to add some
other name, and checked himself. She
entered it in the little book from which
she had taken her bank notes.
Il may be able to serve you," she
said as she wrote. II will speak of
you to the marshal, and when l return
to Paris I may have an opportunity to
bring your name before the emperor"
The color flushed his forehead
"7ou do me much honor" he said
rapidly, "but if you would crafty me,
madame, do not seek to do anything of
the kind'
"And why? Do not you even desire
the CROSSE"
II desire nothing, except to be for
gotten"
She regarded him with much sur
prise, with some slight sense of annoy.
ance. She had bent far in rendering
her influence at the French court to a
private soldier, and his rejection of it
seemed as ungracious as it was mex
plicable. At that moment the Moor
joined them.
"Miladi has told me, M. Victor, that
you are a first rate carver Of worries.
How is it that you have never let me
benefit by your art?"
my things are not worth a SOU"
muttered Cecil hurriedly.
"You do them great injustice and
yourself Also" said the grande dame
more coldly than she had before spo-
ken. your carvings are singularly
perfect and should bring you consider.
able returns.''
why have you never shown them to
me at least?' pursued Ben Arsli. "Why
not have given me my option?'
The blood flushed Cecips face again.
He turned to the princess.
II withheld them, madame, not be-
cause he would have underpriced but
Dverpriced them. He rates a trifing
act of mine Of long ago so unduly."
Ben Arsli stroked his great beard.
more moved than his Moslem dignity
would show.
always So" he muttered, ALWAYS
so. My son, in some life before this
was not generosity your ruin?"
"Mlladi was about to purchase that
lamp? asked Cecil, avoiding the ques-
ton. "Her highness will not find any
thing like it in all Algiers. May I
bear it to your carriage, madame?" he
asked as she moved to leave, having
made it her own, while her footman
carried out smaller articles. She bow
ed in silence. She was very exclusive;
she was not wholly satisfied with her.
self for having conversed thus with a
Chasseur d'Afrique in a Moor's ba-
zaar. Still she vaguely felt pity for
this man; she equally vaguely desired
to serve him.
wait, NJ. Victor" she said as he
closed the door of her carriage. 81
accepted your chessmen last night,
but 1t is impossible I can retain them
on such terms"
A shadow darkened his face.
Let your dogs break them, then, ma
dame. They shall not come back to
me-
You mistake; did not mean that
would send them back I simply de-
sire to offer you some equivalent for
them. There must be something that
you wish for-something which would
be acceptable to you in the life you
lead?'
81 have already named the only thing
desire.''
ITO be forgotten? A sad wish. Nay,
surely life in a regiment Of Africa can
not be so cloudless that it can create in
you no other?'
1T is not. I have another
"Then tell it to me; it shall be graf
ified.''
1T is to enjoy luxury long ago lost
forever. It is to be allowed to give the
slight courtesy of a gentleman with
out being rendered the wage of a sery-
anti
She understood him. She was NOV
ed, too, by the infection Of his voice.
She was not so cold, not so negligent,
as the world called her.
II had passed my word to grant it.
cannot retract," she answered him aft
er 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?'
mo way that can take it for; them.
But, if you care indeed to do themYa
charity, little wine, little fruit, a
few flowers Qor there are those aroong
them who love fowers) sent to the .=Js-
pital will bring many benedictions oG
your name, madame. They lie in in