The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-09-11

II did. My family are IN Switzerland
now
Some of the mobiles were pillaged by
their peasants as well as by the govern
ment. But your house should not have
lost everything
you are mistaken about our losses.
The Orleans Bourbons have little or no
revenue left. Monsieur and Artois were
the Bourbons able to maintain a court
about them in exile. So you have to turn
potter, to help support the idiot and your
self?"
rs your highness interested in art?'
"What have I to do with art?"
But your highnesss can understand how
an idea viii haunt man. 1t is true l live
a wretched life, but amuse myself trying
to produce a perfect vase. have broken
thousands It a shape answers my expec-
tations, that very shape is certain to
crack in the burning or run in the glaze
Then you don't make things to SELF"
ooh. yes: I make noggins and crockery
to sell in the towns. There is kind OF
clay in these hills that suits me- 3.
1.-The wonderful vase" said the other
yawning. might perhaps interest me
more if some facts were not pressing for
discussion. I am a man Of benevolent dis
position, Bellenger." ...
Your royal highness --'' -
stop! I have been revolutionist like
about to touch-and forbid 1t. But T am
a man whose will it is to do good. 1t is
impossible I should search you out in
America to harm my royal cousin. Now
1 want to know the truth about him.
Madame de Terrier had forgotten her
breath. We both stood fastened on that
scene in another world, guiltless of caves
dropping. =" Z
The potter shifted his eyes from side to
side, seeming to follow the burr Of his
vessel upon the wheel.
II find you with creature I cannot
recognize as my royal cousin. If this is
he, sunk so far lower than when he left
France in your charge, why are two
| thirds of his pension sent out from New
York to another Person. while you receive
| for his maintenance only one-third?'
The potter bounded from his wheel, let
| ting the vessel spin off to destruction, and
danced, stretching his long mustaches
abroad in both hands as the ancients must
have rent their clothes. He cried that
he had been cheated, stripped. starved.
II thought they were straitened ir
Monsiuer's court" he ragged. land they
have been maintaining false dauphin'
LAS I said, Bellenger,'' remarked his su.
perior. you are either fool or the great
| est rascal ever saw 80
He looked at Bellenger -attentively.
yet why, should you want to mix clue!
and be rewarded with evident misery
And how could you lose him out Of YOU
hand and remain unconscious of it? H,
was sent to- the ends Of the earth, TO-
safety-poor shattered child!-and if h,
IS safe elsewhere, why should you b,
pensioned to maintain another child
They say that a Bourbon never learns
anything; but I protest that a Bourbon
knows we'll what he does know. 1 fee
sure my uncle intends no harm to the dis
abled heir. Who is guilty of this double
dealing? I confess I don't understand it.
Now whether by our long and silen
stare we drew his regard, or chance cas-
his eye upward, the potter that instan
saw us standing in the cloud above him
He dropped by, his motionless wheel. al
turned to clay himself. The eyeball
stuck from his face. He opened hi
mouth and .screeched as if he had beel
started and could not leave Off
| THE king!-the king the king.-th
king!'
Go be continued to-morrow) -"