Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-10-27

officers in front of them felt wave of irresistible sympathy sweep throu gh their hearts. Her picturesque beE
 her fine temper, the fitness of the
 dent to the occasion, had an insta neous power which moved all men alike.
 Raise her hag Run up the young lady's flag!" some one shouted. And then every voice seemed to echo the words. Clark was a young man of mo- hAs type. in whose veins throbbed the waTm, chivalrous blood of the cava- Hers. A wait of the suddenly prevail ing influence bore him also quite off his feet. He turned to Beverley and said:
 'Do 1t! It will have a great effect. It Is a good idea. Get the young lady's flag and her permission to run it up"
 Before he finished speaking-indeed at the first glance-he saw that Bever- ley, like Hamilton. was white as dead man, and at the same time ft came to his memory that his young friend had con5ded to him during the awful march through the prairie wilderness a love story abort this very Alice Roussillon. In the worry and stress of the subse- Quent struggle he had forgotten the tender basis upon which Beverley had rested his excuse for leaving Vincennes- Now it all reappeared in justifcat ton of what was going on. 1t touched the romantic core~of his southern nature.
 EI say, Lieutenant Beverley" he re- peated, 'sbeg the young lady's permis- sion to use her flag upon this glorious occasion, or shall do it for youY
 There were no miracles in those brave days, and the strain of life with its terrible realities braced all men and women to meet sudden explosions of surprise, whether of good or bad ef- feet, with admirable equipoise, but Beverley's trial, it must be admitted, was extraordinary Still he braced him self quickly and his whole expression changed when Clark moved to go to Alice For he realized now that it was indeed Alice in flesh and blood stand ing there, the center of admiration filling the air with her fine magnetism and crowning a great triumph with her beauty. He gave her glad fash ing smile, as if he had just discovered her, and walked straight to her, his hands extended. She was not looking toward him, but she saw him and turned to face him. Hers was the ad- vantage, for she had known for some hours of his presence in Vincennes and had prepared herself to meet him cour- ageously and with maidenly reserve. There is no safety, however, where love turks Neither Beverley nor Alice was as much agitated as Hamilton, yet they both forgot, what he remembered, that hundred grim frontier soldiers were looking on. Hamilton had his per sonal and official dignity to sustain and be fairly did it under what pres sure of huniliating and surprising cir- cumstances we can fully comprehend Not so with the two young people standing as it were in suddenly be slowed and incomparable happiness on the verge of new life, each to the otll- CT an unexpected, unhoped for resur- rection from the dead. To them there was no universe save the illimitable expanse of their love. Tn that moment of meeting all that they had suffered on account of love was transfused and ! poured forth, glowing Tbation for loves sake, flood before which all barriers broke.
 Father Beret was looking on with a strange fire in his eyes, and what he feared would happen did happen. Alice l let the flag fall at Hamilton's feet