The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1901-07-24

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Cecil put out his hand. He expected
to receive q heavy blow from his COM
mander's saber that possibly might
break the wrist. These little triles
were common in Africa
Instead handful of napoleons was
laid on his open palm Chateauroy
knew the gold would sting more than
the blow.
For the moment Cecil had but one i'm
pulse-to dash the pieces in the giver's
face In time to restrain the impulse
he caught sight of the wild. eager ha-
tired cleaning in the eyes of Rake, Of
Petit Picpon. Of. score of others who
loved him and cursed their colonel and
would at one signal from him have
sheathed their swords in thes mighty
frame Of the marquis. though they
should have been shot down the next
moment themselves for the murder.
The warning of Cigarette came to his
memory. His hand clasped the gold.
He gave the salute calmly as Chateau
roy swung himself away. and. his hour
of liberty being come, he went slowly
out of the great court, with the hand
full of napoleons thrust in the folds of
his sash.
Rather unconsciously than by pre-
meditation his steps turned through
the streets that led to his old familiar
haunt, the AS du Pique. and. dropping
down on bench under the awning,
he asked for draft of water. It was
brought him at once, the hostess,
quick, brown. little woman from Paris,
whom the lovers of Eugene Sue called
Rigolette, adding of her own accord
lump of ice and slice or two of lemon.
for which she viyaciously refused pay
ment, though generosity was by no
means her cardinal virtue. He did not
look at the newspapers she offered
him, but sat gazing out from the tawny
awning. like the sail of Neapolitan
felucca, down the checkered shadows
and the many colored masses of the
little. crooked. rambling, semibarbaric
alley. He was thinking of the napo-
Icons in his sash and of the promise
he had pledged to Cigarette. That he
would keep it he was resolved. Yet
WEAKNESS. bitterness, he had never
known in the excitement of active
service came on him. brought by this
sting Of insult from the fair hand of an
ariStocrat.
There was absolutely no hope pos
sible in his future. The uttermost that
could ever come to him would be q
grade something higher in the army
that now enrolled him-the gift of the
cross or a post in the bureau. Al
gerine warfare was not like the cam
paign of the armies of Italy or the
Rhine, and there was no Napoleon
here to discern with unerring omnis-
cience leaders, genius under the uni
form Of a common trooper. The heavy
folds of Bedouin's haik, brushing the
papers off the bench, broke the thread
of his musings. AS he stopped for
them, he saw that one was an English
journal some weeks old. His own
name caught his eye-the name buried
so utterly, whose utterance in the
sheik's tent had struck him like dag
ger y IuEuSL. t.-4n
THE ROYALLIEU SUCCESSION.
We regret to learn that the Right Hon. Viscount
Royaieu, who SO lately succeeded to the family
title his fathers death, has expired at Men
tone, whittier his health had induced him to go
some months previous. The late lord was unmar.
ried. His next brother was it will be remem-
bered, many years ago killed on southern rail-
way. The title, therefore, now falls to the third
and only remaining son, the Hon. Berkeley Cecil,
who, having lately inherited considerable prop
critics from q distant relative, will, we believe,
lsyive all the old glories Of this peerage, which
have, from variety OF causes, lost somewhat of
their ancient briliancy
Cecil sat quite still, as he had sat
looking down on the record of his.
fathers death when Cigarette had
rallied him with her gay challenge.
among the Moresco ruins. His face
flushed holly under. the warm golden.
hue of the desert bronze, then lost all
color as suddenly, till it was as pale
as any Of the ivory he carved. He-
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