Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1904-05-20

have me fearT"
"'Tis no question of courage" she
went on hurriedly. "NIust not 1, who
| saw it, know that? Only you of them
all dared to resent 1t. Monsieur, you
are brave"
"Mademoisellep
But 1t was in my lords cause, and 1
ask it for his sake. Tiff you fall, he
would sorrow for 1t till his death. And
and
And your" He had bent forward
eagerly. "Would you sorrow, made
moiselle?"
my lords grief would be mine"
The young Frenchman drew a deep
breath. THAT is all?" he said sadly.
81 am nothing but shadow-a passing
stranger, whose coming or going can
not make your heart beat one bit faster
or more slow? Because our ways have
crossed but once, shall you tell me
cannot know your heart? We are like
stars, mademoiselle we human ones
little stars wandering in a vault of
blue. When one star has found its
mate, about which God has made it
because it has never known that star
before? Have l found the one woman
in the world for me, and she does not
see the divine in it?"
Somewhere far away a whippoorwill
began to call, a liquid gurgle through
the clasping dark. There came the
stamping of horses and whlnny from
the stables.
"Tell me, an no more to you than
that stranger passing byW
Anne's voice held q tremor, but she
spoke earnestly and softly: "You are
more than that. You are one who once
guarded me from danger-one whom
have this evening seen do a gentle
deed that 1 shall remember always"
"Ah. it was nothing" he answered
"Was it more than any gentleman
might do? They were not gentlemen
there But 1 would be so proud of It,
mademoiselle, If it made you care ever
so slightly, as I have said. If 1t made
you think of me not as a stranger, but
as suddenly little nearer, a little clos
er than all else besides. Do you re-
member what told you that day as we
rode in the wood? That a man has q
want for two things-a cause to fight
for and some one to wait for him? 1t
is near the time now, and l must CO.
mademoiselle, out into the moonlight
should go joyful if you but told me
that last want was mine. You-you
cannot give me that?"
Anne did not answer, but she was
trembling with a new sense of intoXi-
cation.
81 ask you to give me token, some
thing to carry with me as l ride to
keep the memory of always, to-
"Monsieur
81 love you"
mo, no." she cried II cannot listen!
u
81 love your
stop.
"Once to touch your lips
He was leaning near her, so near she
could feel his breath warm upon her
cheek In sudden surge of revolt she
thrust out her arm as if to further the
distance between them.
"No!' she cried. NO. How dare
you ask me that? How dare your
"Ah. mademoiselle"
count you me so cheap?" she asked,
turning half way, but she did not
hasten. He dropped on one knee and
lifted the hem of her skirt to his lips.
She let her hand fall upon his head
with "A tiuttering gesture. Then, as he
started up with joyful exclamation
she ran back toward the porch.
Standing with barred head in the
moonlight, he saw her pause on the
hind her.
you clodw dubbed a furious voice
behind him.
The young man turned composedly
as the figure came out of the darkness
of the highroad behind him.
"Ah, my Jarrat," he said, sis it you.
them?
Look you" Jarrat's voice was
hoarse with passion. There are some
things that are denied you. This is one.
Be warnedr'
Warned? And by your" laughed
the other. you lay law for me-?
Wherefore"
"Our compact
"And do l not hold to it, monsieur?
Did you not tell me to search out the
bright eyes and red lips? Did you not
say to me that love was fair in the
middle plantation? Did you not whis-
per of proud ladies waiting to be kiss
ed?"
Jarrat burst into laugh.
You! Why, you pitiful fool. So
this is the why of such brave daring!
Insults, forsooth, and duels with gen
tlemen! a fine nobleman it is, to be
sure. Think you the toast of Virginia
is to be charmed by your tinsel swash-
buckling? Think you that Mistress
Tillotson would lower her eyes to your
''She has already lowered her eyes to
me, monsieur"
Il tell you l will have you keep your
clerks face elsewherer'