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AMAZING
CHAPTER VI-Continued.

Chapter Vl-Continued.
~ have news. The Indian brought me
this letter from Albany"
1 could not help glancing curiously at
the sheet in her hand, spotted on the back
with broken red waters. 1t was the first
letter 1 had ever seen. Doctor Chantry
told me he received but one during the
winter, from his sister. and paid two
Spanish reals in postage for 1T besides a
fee and some food and whisky to the In
dian who made the journey to deliver such
parcels. 1t was a trying and an i'm
portant experience to receive a letter. I
was surprised that Madeline Tank had
recommended my sending one into the
Wisconsin country
Count de Chaumont is gone; and I
must have advice
Madame" said, Doctor Chantry was
asleep but will wake him and bring him
here
mo. I will tell you. Monsieur, my
Cousin Philippe is dead"
It might have shocked me more If had
known she had Cousin Philippe. I said
stupidity:
rs hep
Cousin Philippe was my husband, you
understand"
Madame, are you married?'
"Of course!" she exclaimed. And
confessed to myself that in no other way
could Paul be accounted for.
But you are here alone?'
Two large tears ran down her face.
You should, understand the De
Terriers are poor, monsieur, unless some
thing can, be saved from our estates that
the Bonapartes have given away. Cousin
Philippe went to see if we could recover
any part Of them. Count de Chaumont
thought it favorable time. But he was
too old for such journey; and the disap-
pointments at the end of it.
'Old. Was he old, madame?'
Almost old as my father
But you are very young. {
ST was only 13 when my father, on his
deathbed, married me to Cousin Philippe
We were the last of our family. Now
Cousin Philippe is dead and Paul and
are orphans!"
She felt her loss as Paul might have fell
his He was gurgling at Ernestine's knee
in the next ROOM.
Il want advice" she said and l stood
ready to give it. as a, man always is; the
more positively because knew nothing O.
the world
cousin Philippe said 1 must go tt
France for Pauls sake, and appeal my
self to the empress, who has great inf1u
ence over the emperor. His command wa
to go at once" '.
Madame, you cannot go in midwinter.
Must I go at ALL she cried out pas
slonately why don't you tell me a D
Terrier shall not crawl the earth before
Bonaparte. Yau-of all men! We ar
poor and exies because we are royalist
are rOyalists-we always shall be royal
ists I would rather make a wood-chop
per of Paul than a serf of this Napoleon!
She checked herself, and motioned to
chair.
"Sit down, monsieur, Pardon me that
have kept you standing"
I placed the chair for her, but she de
clined 1t, and we continued to face eacl
other
Madame I said, you seem to blam
me for something. What have done?'
Nothing, monsieur.
II will now ask your advice. What d
you want me to do that have not done?
Monsieur, you are doing exactly wha
want you to do ~ ....
Then you are not displeased with me?
~ 81 am more pleased with you every tim
i see you. Your advice is good. I cannc
30 in midwinter.' ~ '" ~
=AAgl.s YOU sure your cousin wanted 70
to make this journey?" a.
1.-THE notary says SO in this lette
Philippe died in the farm house of one
our peasants, and the new masters cou
not refuse him burial in the church whe,
De Terriers have lain for hundreds
years. He was more fortunate than m
father" .nE4&. %saa
This interview with Madame de Ferri
In which out so poor a figure, singular
influenced me. 1t made me restless, as
something had entered my blood. In Ja1
uary the real spring begins, for then Sc
starts, and the lichens seem to quicken.
felt was young, and rose up against le
sons all day long and part Of the night.
rushed in haste to the woods or the frozs
lake, and wanted to do mighty deeds witt
out knowing what to undertake. More thu
anything else I wanted friends of n
own age. To see Doctor Chantry do
ing and hear him grumbling, no longer r
manned endurable; for he reminded n