Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-12-05

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 ''Oh, who would be healthyi Come to that, who would be such royal beggar as am?" Remember" she said gravely, "that your claim was in a manner recognized by one of the most cautious, one of the least ardent royalists in France"
 The recognition she knew nothing about came to my lips, and told her the whole story of the. .eewels. The snuffbox was in my pseGet. Sophie 1 Saint-Michel had often described it to her.
 She sat and looked at me, contemplat- 1 ing the stupendous loss. ''The marquis advised me not to take them into Russia 7 acknowledged. ;
 ''There is no robbery so terrible as the. robbery committed by those who think they are doing right"
 T am one of the losing Bourbons."
 'Can anything be hidden in that closet in the queens dressing room wall2" unused Eagle 'T believe could 1 find 1t in the dark, Sophie told me so often where the secret spring may be | touched. When the De Chaumonts took me to the Tuileries wanted to search for 1t. But all the state apart 1 ments are now on the second floor, and Mime. Bonaparte has her own rooms below. Evidently she knows nothing of the secrets of the place. The queen kept her most beautiful robes in that closet. 1t has no visible door. The wall 1 opens, And we have heard that door i was made through the back of 1t to let l upon a spiral staircase of stone, and through this the royal family made l their escape to Varennes, when they 1 were arrested and brought back, !" | We fell into silence at mention of the unsuccessful flight which could have changed history, and she rose and said, Good night, sire" l Next morning there was such de- licious world to live in that breathing was a pleasure. Dew gauge spread far I and wide over the radiant domain. ! Sounds from cattle and stables and the voices of servants drifted on the air. Doves wheeled around their towers and around the chateau standing like a white cliff.
 | walked under the green canopy, watching the sun mount and waiting for Mime de Terrier When she did l appear the old man who had served her father followed with a tray I could only say, Good morning, ma dame" not daring to add, 'I have scarcely slept for thinking of you.''
 we will have our coffee out here," she told me.
 Then the old servant gathered wall A..., I... hand to Paul. Through a festooned arch of the pavilion giving upon the terraces we saw bird dart down to the fountain, tilt and drink, tilt and drink again and flash away. Immedi- ately the multitudinous rejoicing of q skyIark dropped from upper air. When men would send thanks to the very gate of heaven their envoy should be skylark.
 Eagle was like little girl as she lis- tened.
 This is the first day of September. s1re.''
 "Is it? thought 1t was the first day of creation"
 T mention the date that you may not forget it. Because am going to give ' you SomeCn1ng today l My heart leaped like conqueror's.
 Then her face went grave, like a child's when it is surprised In wicked ness.
 "But our fathers and mothers would have us forget their suffering in the festival of coming home, wouldn't they, Lazarreg'
 Surely, Eagle"
 ''Then why are you looking at me with reproach?"
 'rm not"
 Perhaps you don't like my dress2 2'' I told her 1t was the first time had ever noticed anything she wore, and l l liked it.
 'I used to wear my mothers clothes. l Ernestine and made them over. But this is new, for the new day and the new life here.''
 "And the day" reminded her, 'is the 1st of September" l She laughed and opened her left hand, showing me two squat keys, so small that both had lain concealed un- der two of her finger tips. 'I am going to give you key, sire.
 "Will it unlock woman's mind?"
 "It will open a padlocked book Last night found little blank leaved book with wooden covers. It. was fas- tened by paddock, and these keys were tied to it. You may have one key; I will keep the other"
 ''The key to padlocked book with nothing in it."
 Her eyes tantalized me.
 "I am going to put something in it. Sophie Saint-Michel said had a gift for putting down my thoughts If the 1 gift appeared to Sophie when was a child it must grow in me by use. 1 Every daY l shall put some of my life