The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1903-10-21

! 80 symbolic to me the gate Of
! France. The nobility of tl!Gt
! view remained in my thoughts when
/ half the distance to Paris was trav-
! erSed.
! I could shut my eyes and see it as /
! lay on the straw in a posthouse sta
! Bile. 4 square hole in the front of the
! grenier gave upon the landscape. Even
respectable houses in that part of the
/ country were then built with few or
no windows, but delicious masses of
grayness they were, rooted with thick
and overhanging thatch-
looked out Of the grenier window
upon the highroad and upon the June
sun III the act Of setting, for we had
supped and gone early to rest after &
hard Gay. Post horses were stamping
underneath, all ready for some noble
count who intended to make another
stage Of his journey before nightfaIl.
Small obtrusive cares, such as the
desire that my shoes should last we'll
into Paris, mingled with JOY in the
smell Of the earth at sunset and the
looking forward to seeing Nine. de
Ferrier again. I wrapped myself ev-
cry night in the conviction that l
should see her and more freely than
I had ever seen her in America.
There was q noise Of horses gallop-
ing, and the expected noble count ar
rived, being no other than De Chau-
mont with bis post coaches. He step
ped out Of the first, and Ernestine
stepped out Of the second, carrying
Paul. She took him to his mother.
The door few open, and the woman I
adored received her child and walked
back and forth with him. Annabel
leaned out while the horses were
changed. saw Miss Chantry, and my
heart misgave me, remembering her
brothers prolonged lament at separa-
ton froJl roJlsss:Sc-,-- e.
He 20; trusted, already shut into
ozsesor those public beds which are
like cupboards, for the day had begun
for Us at Of the morning. But If
be chose to show Himself scd fall upon
De Chaumont for luxurious convey
ance to Paris I was determined that
Skenedonk and should not appear. !
wronged my poor master, wLo told me
afterward he watched through crack
Of the cupboard bed with his heart in
his mouth.
The pause was q very short one, for
horses are soon changed. Nine. de
Ferrier threw a searching eye over
the landscape. 1t was mercy she did
not see the hole in the grenier through
which l devoured her, daring for the
first tine to call her secretly Eagle
the name that De Chaumont used with
common freedom! And how strange
is this-that one woman should be to
man the sum of things! And what
was her charm I could not tell, for l
began to understand there were many
beautiful women in the world, Of all
favors, and shapely perhaps as the one
Of my love. Only her I found draw
ing the soul out Of my body, and none
Of the others did more than please the
eye like pictures.
The carriag ges were gone with sun
and it was no wonder all fell gray
over the world.
De Chaumont had sailed behind US
and be would be in Paris long before
! US.
I had first felt some uneasiness and
dread Of being arrested on our journey,
though our Breton captain obtained
for US at Dieppe, on his own pledge, a
kind Of substitute for passports. We
were a marked party BY reason Of the
doctors lameness and Skenedonk's ap-
pearance. The Oneida during his for
mer sojourn in France had been en-
courag ged to preserve the novelty Of his
Indian dress. AS had nothing to
give him il it's place, it did not become
me to find fault And he would have
been more conspicuous with cooked
hat on his bare red scalp and knee
brecches instead Of buckskins. Peas
ants ran out to look at him, and in
return we looked at them with good
will
We reached the very barriers Of
Paris, however, without falling into
trouble And in the streets were so
many men Of so many nations that
SkeneGonk's attire seemed no more bi-
zarre than the turbans Of the east or
the white burnoose Of the Arab.
It was here that Skenedonk took his
role as guide. He took O bee line upon
his old tracks, and when the place was
sighted we entered small court,
where a gruf man called concierge,
having a dirty kerchief around his
head, received US doubtfully. He was
not the concierge Of Skenedonk's day.
We showed him the coin and DR.. Chan
try sat down in his clair and looked at
him with such contempt that his re-
spect increased.
The house was clean, and all the
stairs we climbed to the roof We're
we'll scourad. My poor master stretch
ed himself on a bed by the STOPPING
wall We paid for our lodgings, three
commodious rooms, though in the man
sard, my secretary dragging himself
to sit erect with groans and record the
Increasing debt Of myself and my
servant.
Come, Skenedonk," 1 then said.
LET US so down to the earth and buy
something that DR.. Chantry can eat
We got loaf Of bread as long as a
staff, q pat Of butter in O leaf and
bottle Of wine. Ny servant, though
unused to squaw labor, took on him.
self the porterage of OUT goods, and I
pushed from street to street, keenly
pleased with the novelty, which held
somewhere in its volatile ether the
person OF Nine. de Ferrier.
Skenedonk blazed our track with his
observant eye, and we told ourselves
we were searching for Dr. Chantry's
beef. Being the unburdened hunter, l
undertook to scan cross places and so
came unexpectedly upon the Rue St