Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-11-23
My c6nGuct appeared contemptible. looked mutely at her.
 "What offended youw

What offended youT
 Nothing, madame"
 "Did you want Dr. Chantry to lame himself hobbling around in search of you. and the count to send people out in every direcdon?"
 No, madame"
 What explanation will you make to the count?"
 "None, madame" I raised my head "I may go out In the woods without asking leave of Count de Chaumont." "He says you have forsaken your books and gone back to be an Indian" I showed her the Latin book in my hand. She glanced slightly at 1t and continued to make her gray eyes pass through my marrow.
 Shifting like culprit, inquired: How did you know was here?'' "Oh, 1t was not hard to find you after saw the boat This island is not large"
 But who rowed you across the lake, madame?"
 q came by myself, and nobody ex- cept Ernestine knows 1t. I can row boat. slipped through the tunnel and ventured."9
 Madame am a great fool. I am not worth your mentioning"
 You are worth any danger I might encounter. But you should at least go back for me-
 T will do anything for you, madame. But why should I go back? You will not long be there"
 What does that matter? The i'm portant thing is that you should not lapse again into an Indian"
 i'Is any life but the life of an Indian open to me- madame"
 She struck her hands together with a scream
 "Louis Sirer'
 Startled, dropped the book and it sprawled at her feet like the open missal. She had returned so unexpect- edly to the spirit of our first meeting. "Oh, if you knew what you are! Dur ing my whole life your name has been cherished in my family. We believed you would some time come to your own. Believe in yourselfv'
 She took lacquered box from the cover of her wrappings and moved down the slope a few steps.
 "Come here to your mother and get your supper"
 I felt tears rush to my eyes. She sat down. spread a square of clean fringed linen upon the ground and laid out crusty rounds of buttered bread that were fragrant in the springing fragrance of the wood, firm slices of cold meat and cunning pastry which instantly maddened me. was ashamed to be such a wolf.
 We sat with our forest table between us and ate together.
 T am hungry myself she said.
 If evening had paused while that meal was in progress it would not have surprised me. But when she had en- couraged me to eat every thing to the last crumb, she shook the fringed nap kin, gathered up the lacquered box and said she must be gone.
 Monsieur, I have overstepped the bounds of behavior in coming after you. The case was too urgent for consideration of myself. I must hurry back, for the counts people would not understand my secret errand through the tunnel. Will you show yourself at the house as soon as possible?"
 told her humbly that would
 "But let me put you in the boat, madame"
 1, She shook her head. You may fol. low, after am out of sight. If you fail to follow She turned In the act of departing and looked me through.
 told her would not fail.
 When Mime. de Terrier disap- peared beyond the bushes sat down and waited with my head between my hands, still seeing upon closed eyelids \ her figure, the scant frock drawn around it, her cap of dark hair under a hood, her face moving from change to change. And whether sat a year or a minute, clouds had descended when I looked, as they often did In that lake gorge. So waited no longer, but followed her.
 The fog was brown and capped the evening like a solid stone, pressing down to the earth and twisting smoke fashion around my feet. It threw sinu- ous arms in front of me as thing endowed with life and capable of molding itself, and when reached my boat and pushed off on the water a vast mass received and enveloped me. More penetrating than its clammi- ness was the thought that Mime. de Terrier was out in 1t alone.
 I tried one of the long calls we some times used in hunting. She might hea r and understand that was near to help her. But it was shouting against many walls. No effort pierced the muf1ing substance which rolled thickly against the lungs Remembering it was possi- bic to override smaller craft, pulled with caution and so bumped lightly against the boat that by lucky chance lowered in my track.
 "Is that you, madame?' I asked
 She hesitated.
 "Is it you, monsieur?"
 "Yes."
 II think I am lost. There is no shore. The fog closed around me so soon. was waiting for 1t to lift little."
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