The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1902-01-09
TIE PRINCETON UNION: THURSDAY, JANUARY 8, 1902.

BY the evil talents of his brothers foe.
He had recklessly embarked in Quille-
bert's perilOus and piratical commerce
to enrich himself. He had ruthlessly
spurned the love of a lion hearted Swo-
man to be untrammeled in the pursuit
of shrinking maiden. Without COM
junction he had traded with villain
for the proofs of a guardians infidelity
to his trust in order to coerce the SUBJ
mission of the ward. Unfinchingly
had he suppressed the true will of his
brother and propounded forgery to
render defenseless her whom that
brother had loved and sought to pro-
tect.
All these had he dared and done
and had experienced no trepidation or
sting OF conscience. But that to which
they had. reference only, that to which
they were designed as mere aids, ap-
palled him. His mind by day and
night reveled in imaginings of Joyous
life with Estelle his welded wife. A
hundred times he set forth determined
make his bliss assured and returned
with void warnings and nothing more.
He dared not hear refusal from her
pale lips. Could he brave that the
course of cruel duress and compulsion
he had prepared would be easy, swift
and grateful to his temper. But his
vanity shrank from her rejection. He
sought to. convince himself that she
would not, could not, say the dreaded
word, and yet he knew she had loved
Horace and feared she would be loyal
to that love. Though armed with the
lnstrumentalitfes for forcing her con-
sent, he was unable to expel the un-
quieting belief that the frail, gentle
girl was in character such as CARLYLE
describes his wife, "In her bright ca.
reer she had more sorrows than are
common, but also soft invincibility. a
clearness of discernment, a noble low
atty of heart, which are rare"
Impatient, fretting, chatting at his
nervousness, he nurtured his design
upon Estelle-it was destitute of the
tenderness and generous warmth of
loVe-untll it became a mania. Yet he
fingered, held back, deferred the test of
his fate, not noting the fight of time.
The dirge Of the Confederacy was sung
at Appomattox, and still he halted.
But another spirit more masterful
than his rebelled against this procvas.
tination.
do you know the war is ended ~
said Qufllebert, appearing at "LEsper-
ance' for the first time during his resi-
dence in the parish.
EYES," Evariste replied uninterest.
edly.
'Then the period has come when I
must wind up my affairs here and 20
back to France, for time at least, if
not permanently" Quillebert contin-
ued. "Some Of my Christian neighbors
are jealous to have the United States
authorities pry into my business. MY
absence will not facilitate them"
"Well, Constant, how can I speed
you?'
"Settle our business first. owe YOU
$4,000 on the last cotton sales. Which
do you prefer, the money or the abso-
lutte transfer of those two Latiolais pa
pers"
"You said you would give me those
papers,"
II said I would put them at your
service free Of charge, but you have
never called on me for them, and I
have no assurance you will ever use
them for the purpose which induced
my promise. That brings us to the
second thing you must do to speed my
departure"
"What is that?"
MARY the Latiolais girl"
what bearing has that upon your
staying or goingY'
"This-1 have made up my mind that
Laure must go with me-"
Gas your wife" inquired Evariste,
| aroused.
"Not at first; later, perhaps" replied
Quillebert. "But she knows too much
about my business to be left here"
"True enough" Evariste said. "But
what has my marriage to do with
that?'
"Everything," Quillebert said EN-.
phatically. II am not fool. I can
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