Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-04-11

one girl alone. you say-her hand on her
breast-no French officer with her."
But saw these others, too-yes, I saw
them, even if you birch me for it, I saw
themp
60 onr' said Catinat, sternly. 1--WE have
no time to wait all night on you'll" The boy
continued between suppressed sobs of dis
may and pain.
II see only the white waist-I cannot see
the girlAeither the one with the hand to
her breast, who waited and looked around
or the-other!
There was no other" said Catinat
firmly.
Very WELL them" said the boy, wincing
away, "she was not there, but I thought
It, Tell me what am to think, and I will
NO" said catinat, Severely. tell me
what you see and that exactly. Look fur
Their afield. You have seen her once. You
have seen in what direction she was NOV
ing. Look again-or-'
20. I Will will iagain with the mouse.
like squeak. I see her now-plainly I
see her. She is within the Rockers above
the Dourbie, near where the st. Veran
cradle is set up. She is sitting on rock
hands. I think she Is very cold.'
HAS she a cloak about her?' said Maui
rice, anxiously.
The natural turned his head uncertainty,
he was required to answer extraneous and
possibly discomposing questions, but before
he had time to reply. Billy Marshall came
in with Maurice's cloak across his arm.
Where did you get that2" cried his mas
''she-" said Billy with strong and con-
temptuous accent on the pronoun, left 1t
lying on the ground that she might run
frae We the fasterl Did I no tell We. that
I was RIGHT? A wee bit KNAPP wi the black
thorn. But we wadna TAX puir Billy's ad-
vice. Ma, he kennel nocht ABBOTT weemel,
an sac it's come to thtsl'
70 We
the cloak and what arms are needful and
follow with me to the place where the
wagons were captured"
Hy says h. W WARNS DO an tax c Rv
Marshall for? Dye think that he would
gang twenty years over the door in siccan
an unhamely place without bringing a
the arms that are committed to him
the poother an ball for ilka yin-a' in
pooches by their ainsels?"
And at the word the gypsy undid his belt
and showed a perfect armament of pistols
and short swords, or hangers, as they were
then called,
Bets cot there wi the muckle guns and
the braidswords." he added.
How do you know that?' demanded
Billy looked at him shrewdly, yet a trifio
sadly, as one who had failed to profit by
the opportunities of acquiring good infor'
nation when these were rendered to him.
Hoo do 1 ken? Well. just KEN that's
al And ye shall prove my words for your
sell, Master Maurice Il Gamma aye be mind
mtndin' your ither nance, 'knappit her in
time, she wad hae been lying prood and
snug ayont ye at this meenit, instead o.
freezin' to oath DOT on the wild hills!''
Hold your accursed tongue, will your
cried Maurice, Infatuated Come and help
US to look"
Dress yourself properly then" answered
Billy, IAN do your cloak upon you. The
habit you wear is frozen stiff and is only
summan thick at ony rate!'
A dish of cold water was standing on a
little dripping board, at which some former
married tenant of Catinat's house had
washed dishes. Catinat seized this and
dashed the contents fair in the face of the
seer. The wooliy headed boy came to him
self with a start, and would have dropped
the crystal had not the prophet snatched
it out of his lax and feeble hands and re-
stored 1t to a bag of faded black velvet,
through the Enclosed seams of which Ii
peeped with jewel-like brillianty of sug-
geStiOn,