Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1904-04-07
Mouret, in which direction do your

Mouret, in which direction do your
talents lie?"
II have no talents, madame; a plain.
blunt man of the camp"
''Ah! soldier; SO interesting In these
stupid times, when men are little put
women differently dressed. All, 1t has
been too truly said that when men
were created, some of the mud which
remained served TO fashion the souls
of princes and lackeys.' But surely
you could give us a story?" and SO she
talked on not discourteous but heed
less of my protests. / was really
alarmed lest she seriously call upon
me before that stately company.
The tiny clock upon her table chimed
the third quarter, and she volunteered
that at III She expected other callers.
Acting upon this hint jerome proceed
ed at once to tell her why he came vet
| noted in all his conferences he ever
kept something to himself for safcty's
sake. Tho maids temperance inter
rupted us. She announced, NJ. dc
Nalence.'
A glcam of anger swept across
| madame's face
IBID him wait my pleasure III the
ante room. He is ten minutes early.
No, the sooner he comes the sooner 1T is
over: wait: bid him come in. M. lie
! Captain, dc Greyille. will You gentle
for n short space? | will speedily be
| free again.
And so u cane about we overheard
1 matters which opened my mind to the
| way affairs of state are managed, and
/ grew TO learn upon what slender
/ threads of love. of malice. of jealousy
i and of hate the destnieS of nations
4 must often hang. From our situation
4 we could not help but hear all that
! passed between. madame and her caller.
The maid withdrew, in the slow hurry
4 of a truant on his way to school, but
FASTENED at sign of annoyance from
madame.
Monsieur de Nalence, YOU are full
4 ten minutes early. You know babe
madame's petulant greeting of the
4 handsome man who bore himself so
/ meellly in her presence.
No tone was ever colder, no demean-
\ or more naughty than hers. and this
proud man who bent before no storm.
who held the fortunes of many within
his grasp, bowed like an obedient child
to her whim.
Yes, Celeste. know, but
Madame de Chartrain," she correct
I ed. (l use the name de Chartrain,
though it was not her own)
"Yes--madame, 1 know. but, 1t is SO
hard to wait; do you understand how
count the minutes every day until
YES, yes. Eve beard all those fine
! excuses before. To your business. The
other can walt. business first. then"
"I'leasure?" he supplemented with an
caserness strangely at variance with
the rigid self-control he had hitherto
shown.
II did not say pleasure, she gravely
broke in, your business"
The man submitted with the pa tience
OF one quite accustomed. yet not wholly
resigned TO such n reception, and
spread numerous papers upon the table
before her. Selecting one he began TIC
explain:
Your wishes ia regard to this
matter have been carried out;
n had the man detained ir
tine city where he is at your command
He suspects nothing, though fretfu! al
the restraint"
Very good. And tho other
Yes here it is. You see this has beer
so arranged that the duke quite nat
urally selected Menczcs to bear these
dispatches. You may remind him thai
MeneZes is Il brother of the man Per
rault, whom he had hanged some years
ago. Here is the mans history, which
you can look over at leisure. This duke
has forgotten all this in his ifnpati encf
to remedy the Ward fiasco. t vii
serve, however. to make him think yo.
even more clever and devoted to him
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