The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1901-07-10

measure or whose renee Sne LAC 10
4 power to gauge.
/ Crouched there among the rhodOden-
drons, she lay as still as mouse. NOV
ing nearer and nearer until her ear,
quick and unerring as an Indians,
could detect the sense OF the words spo-
ken. Chateauroy himself was bending
i his fine, dark head toward the patrician
/ on whom her instinct Of sex had fas-
/ tened her haired.
8 You expressed your wish to see my
corporaps little sculptures again, ma
dame he was murmuring now. 90
/ hear was to obey with me. He waits
your commands yonder. !"
/ TWAS you, was It, brough him here?''
muttered the Friend of the Flag. with
the passion in her burning more hotly
against that "silver pheasant" whose
delicate train was sweeping the white
/ marbles of Chateauroy's terraces and
whose reply she lost, though she could
guess what it had been, when lackey
crossed the lawn and summoned the
chasseur.
Cecil obeyed, passed up the terrace.
stairs and stood before his colonel, Civ
ling the salute. The shade Of some AGA
cias still fell across him, while the
party he ffonted were all in the glow
of a full Algerian moon and Of the
/ thousand lamps among the belt of
flowers and trees. Chateauroy spoke
with a carelessness as Of man to
dog, turning to his corporal:
! Victor, the princess honors you with
the desire to see your toys again.
1 Spread them out.
The savage authority of his general
speech was softened for sake Of his
4 ert tone in the words that made Ciga-
/ rette murmur to herself:
IF he forgets his promise | viii for
] give hin!''
i Cecil had not forgotten It; neither
/ had he forgotten the lesson that this
1 fair aristocrat had read him in the
morning. He saluted his chief again.
| of the marble balustrade and stood
silent, without once glancing at the
i fair and naughty face that was more
brilliant still in the African starlight
+ than it had been in the noon sun of
the chasseurs' chambree. Courtesy
was forbidden him as insult from q
/ corporal to a nobly born beauty. The
carvings were passed from hand to
4 hand as the marquis six, or eight
/ guests. lstlessly willing to be amused
] in the warmth of the evening after
| their dinner occupied themselves with
] the ivory chess armies, cut with skill
and a finish worthy a Roman studio.
1 Praise enough was awarded to the art.
but only one glanced at the artist with
a touch of wondering pity, softening
her prideshe who had rejected the
/ gift of those mimic squadrons.
. You were surely a sculptor once r.
she asked him. with that graceful, dis
tant kindness which she might have
shown some Arab outcast.
Never, madame.
4 Indeed! Then who taught you such
exquisite art?"
1T cannot claim to be called an art,
/ madame.
4 She looked at him with an increased
interest The accent of his voice told
4 her that this man, whatever he might
be now, had once been gentleman
oh, yes; it is perfect Of It's kind.
1 Who was your master in it?''
:. A common teacher. madame neces-
sity.''
There was very sweet CLEAN Of
compassion in the luster Of her dark,
dreaming eyes.
Does necessity often teach SO well ~
In the ranks of our army. madame.
think it does; often. indeed, much
4 better
Victor knows that neither he nor his
men have any right to waste their time
on such trash Chateauroy said care
lessly. but the truth is they love the
4 canteen so well that they will do any
thing to add enough to their pay to buy
i brandy
i She whom he had called the prfn-
cess looked with q doubling surprise
1 at the sculptor of the white Arab king
she held. u.s. 5s
THAT man does not carve for bran
/ dy," she thought.
~ must De q sOlace to many a weary
hour In the barracks to be able to pro-
/ duce such beautiful trifles as these,
she said aloud. Surely you encourage
such pursuits, colonel y
Not !, X said Chateauroy with q dash
| OF his camp tone that lie could not
withhold. here are but two arts or
virtues for a trooper to my taste
i fighting and obedience 3
gu should be IN the Russian serv-
Ice. n. de Chateauroy,' I said the lady.
/ with smile that, slight as it was.
made the marquis eyes fash IRE.
"a lnlost I wish I had been, & he an
sWered her. & NJ en- are made to keep
their grades there. and privates who
think themselves fine gentlemen re-
ceive the lash they menit 3
| low he hates his corpora 4, thought
miladL while she laid aside tie white
/ king once more