The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1903-11-18
lie spared no pains in obtaining II

DR.. Chantry had been living in Pari:
a life above his dreams Of luxury. /
was fortunate that De Chaumont took
him during my absence. He went sim
pering and abasing himself before tht
French noble with the complete sub
servience of 4 Saxon when SaXor
does become subservient.
"The fool is lauGhablc," said the
Marquis du Plessy. Get rid Of him
Lazarre. He is fit for nothing but
hanging upon some one who will feec
him"
HE is my MASTER" answered. 81
am fool myself
"You will come back from Mittau
convinced of that, my boy. The wise
course is to join yourself to events and
let them draw your chariot My dis,
likers say have temporized with fate.
It is true I am not so righteous as to
smell to heaven, but two or three facts
have been deeply impressed on me.
There is nothing more aggressive than
the virtue Of an ugly, untcnpted wo-
man or the determination CT young
man to set ever; wrong thing il the
world right. He cannot wait ard 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 dis
ease has run its course we may be able
to bring evidence which will make it
unnecessary for the Count Of Provence
to hasten here that France may have q
king"
81 want to see my sister, monsieur"
"And lose her and your OWE cause
forever"
But lie helped me to hire q strong
travelling claise and stock it with such
comforts as it would bear. He also
turned my property over to me, recon-
mending that should not take it into
Russia. Half the jewels at least I con-
sidered the property of the princess in
Mittau. but his precaution Influenced
me to leave three bags Of coin in DR..
Chantry's care, for DR.. Chantry was
the soul Of thrift with his own, and to
send Skenedonk with the jewel case to
the marquis bank. The cautious Onei-
da took counsel of himself and hid it in
the chaise. He told me when we were
three days out.
When I paid my last visit at De
Chaumont's hotel and said was going
into the country Eagle looked con-
cerned, as a De Ferrier should, but she
did not turn her head to follow my de-
parture. The game Of man and woman
was in its most blindfold state between
US. There was one, however, who
watched me out Of sight. The marquis
was more agitated than l liked to see
him. He took snuff with constant
click Of the lid.
The usual route carried us eastward
to Cracow. the old capital Of Poland,
scattered in ruined grandeur within its
brick walls Beyond it / remember a
stronghold Of the middle ages called
the fortress of Landskron.
In Lithuania the roads were paths
winding through forests full Of stumps
and roots. The carriage hardly squeezed
along, and eight little horses attached
to it in the Polish way had much ado
to draw US.
Within the proper boundary Of Rus
s!a our way was no better. There we
saw queer projections Of boards around
trees to keep bears from climbing after
the hunters.
In Grodno, town Of falling houses
and ruined palaces, we rested again be-
fore turning directly north. There my
heart began to sink. We had spent four
weeks on comfortless road, working
always toward the goal. 1t was nearly
won. A speech Of my friend the mar
quis struck itself out sharply in the
northern Light.
:.You are not the only pretender, my
dear boy. Don't so to AIittau expecting
to he hailed as a novelty. At least two
peasants have started up claiming to
be the prince who did not die in the
Temple and have been cast down again,
complaining of the treatment Of their
dear sister. The Count d. 'Astois says he
would rather saw wood for a living
than be king after the English fashion.
/ would rather be the worthless old fel-
low I am than be king after the Mtttau
fashion, especially when his majesty
Louis XVIII. sees you coming