Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-11-20

meath her in everything but wealth. How
might she regard STOPPING to him7
Miss Chantry. was divided between en-
forced Difference and a Saxon necessity
to tell me I would not last. saw she
considered me one Of the upstairs OF the
Empire, singularly. favored above her
brother, but under my finery the same
French savage she had known in Ameri-
Eagle brought Paul to me, and he tod
died across the floor. looked at me wise
~, and then climbed my knee.
Doctor Chantry had been living In
Paris a life above his dreams Of luxury,
When occasionally I met my secretary
he was about 70 drive out; or he was re-
turning from De Chaumont's hotel. And
there / caught my poor master reciting
poems to Annabel. who laughed and
yawned, and made faces behind her fan.
/ am afraid he drew on the marquis
oldest wines, finding indulgence in the
house; and he sent extravagant bills to
me for gloves and lawn cravats. It was
fortunate that De chaumont took him
during my absence. He moved his be-
longings with positive rapture. The mar
quis and both thought It prudent not to
publish my journey
Doctor Chantry went simpering, and
with the complete subservience of a
Saxon when a Saxon does become subser-
Went.
The fool is laughable," said the Mar
quis du Plessy. Get rid OF him, Lazarre.
He is 1T for nothing but hanging upon
some one who will feed him"
HE is my master" answered. II
am fool myself"
you will come back from Mittau con-
inced OF that. my boy. The wise course Is
to Join yourself to events, and let them
draw your. chariot. My dislikes say 1
have temporized with, fate. 1t is true /
am not 30 righteous as to. smell to heav-
en-. But two or three facts have been
deeply impressed on me. There Is Moth
ing more aggressive than the virtue Of an
ugly, Uninterrupted woman; or the determin-
alton of young man to set every wrong
thing in the world right. He cannot walt,
and take mellow interest in what goes
on around him. but must leap into the
ring. You could live here with me in
definitely. while the nation has Bona
parte like the measles. When the disease
has run its course-we may be able to
bring evidence which Will make 1t I'M
necessary for the Count OF Provence to
hasten here that France may have
king .t.
II want to see my sister. monsieur"
And lose her and your own cause for
ever" ~
But he helped me to hire a strong
travelling chaise. and stock II with such
comforts as II would bear. He also turned
my property over to me. recommending
that I should not take II into Russia
Half the jewels, at least, considered the
property OF the princess in Mittau; but
his precaution influenced me to leave
three bags OF coin in Doctor Chantry's
care: for Doctor Chantry was the soul
OF thrift with his own; and TO send
Skenedonk with the Jewel case to the
marquis bank. The cautious Oneida took
counsel OF himself and hid It in the
chaise. He told me when we were three
days out.
II is as true that you are driven to do
some things as that you can never en-
tirely free yourself from any life you
have lived. That sunny existence In the
Faubourg ST. German. the morning and
evening talks with a man who bound me
TO him as no other man has since bound
me. were too dear to leave even briefly
without wrenching pain. / dreamed
nightly Of robbers and disaster. of being
ANONYMOUSLY thrust out OF Mittau, OF
seeing a woman whose face was a blur
and who moved backward from me when
/ called her my sister; Of troops march
ing across and trampling me into the
earth as straw. groaned in spirit. Yet
10 Mittau I was spurred by the kind OF
force that seems to press from unseen
distances. and is as fatal as tempera-
ment.
When paid my last visit at De Chau-
mont's hotel and said / was going into
the country, Eagle looked concerned. as
De Ferrier should; but she did not turn
Ter head to follow my departure. The
game OF man and woman was in its most
Ilindfold state between us.
There was one, however, who watched