The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1904-04-22


jeering manner desecrated the sacred
relic of my vanished saint.
De Nlrelle scowied somewhat at my
precipitation, but, meeting a no less
determined ai!, passed the matter by.
His Indies affected not to see. They in
turn piled me with inquiries about the
savages in America. asked all M
Of silly questions. II completed with
their foolish simperings the disgust l
already felt ut such an interruption to
my thought. Yet so great is the force
OF noNelty to women they clung about
me as II l We're some strange tame ami
NAL brought to Paris for their diver
tisement.
POUNDS, Margot dear de virell.
blurted out aside. for even his dull
senses saw l was not pleased, our
good Moliere must have had this her
NIT captain in his mind when he made
Alceste to rail so at the hypocrisies of
the world, and urge the telling of truth
and looking of truth at all times.'
How brutality frank! What bad
breeding" assented that young woman.
This captain seems so full of weari-
ness at our coming, and lacks the grace
TO veil 1t %decently: let us 60"
Finding no hand of mine raised to
Nv lllSlIly tllcSG ldlE DANES ana
demoiselles with many pretty pouts
and tlutters and fiounces, betook them
selves away. followed by their faithful
squire.
1 began then to feel sorry at having
disgraced Jerome's gentle teachings.
The light dying away across the distant
fields and streams, l resigned my soli-
tary communion and set out slowly
toward the villa. The meaning of all
the girl had said now forced itself up
on my attention. Ii this were true,
and 1T seemed plausible enough in view
of all that had TRANSFERRED here, l was
indeed confronted by a new n serious
danger. Happily danger was not a new
fellow-traNeler; l merely turned over
in my mind the best means to meet it.
Going rather out of my way, I found
the srooms without much difficulty,
and telling them we We're TO leave
SceauN at once, ordered the horses sad
died, and made ready at Il side door
where L directed them to wait. My own
mind was to tell jerome nothing of 1T,
but simply to mount the best horse and
ride away alone-if that course became
necessary.
I viii break in a bit just here to
speak of an incident which occurred
that very night in the modest boudoir
OF Madame de la Mora. Had l but
known of it at the time. it would have
saved me many weary months of SUI
fering.
Madame Agnes de la Mora sat placid
~, her work basket by her side. busted
about some lace She was mending. The
cheValier studied a number of military
maps of Louisiana at his table. 1t was
a pretty picture of domestic harmony,
then quite questionable at Sceaux. A
timid rap at the door. and a voice:
Sister, may l come in?"
tVN~ o1,,; ~ ~,l H., a
slipped silently in and sat herself upon
the floor at madame's feet. There was
a striking similarity between the two.
Madame. for all her dignified title, be-
ing but a year the elder. and she scant
20. Charlotte, somewhat slignter and
more delicately colored, was ever OF
greater beauty than her sister, With
much promise for the years to come.
To the casual observer. though, espe-
cially when viewed apart, they seemed
almost reflections one of the other.
There was something of a loving
guardianship in the attitude of the eld-
er, of confiding trust in that of the
younger, as h leaned her head upon
her sisters knee in pensive meditation.
Sister, I must tell you Of something's;
I know not that 1 did we'll or ill., and
she lifted her face With a surety of
sympathy.
What is it, dear, what weighty mat
ter troubles you now?"
The chevalier looked up Ions enough
to say:
Have you torn your froclS. or only
quarreled again with the good able
over your task?" The girl very evident-
ly had nothing to fear from his harsh
ness.
mo! No. Don't tease; it's really
important. This day at noon Madame
Chartrain was in her chamber-you
know the young man who came with
NJ. Jerome?" de la Mora nodded.
The same I ran into at the door?"
and she flushed again at the memory
Of our discontinue.
We'll, today noon at Madam Char
trains l heard that danger threatened
him concerning some papers or some-
thing which he has-and Madame du
Maine. too. they mean him harm; and
-and-well. I told him. Did I do i'll,
slster?"
What is that, Charlotte? Coma
here"
She crossed the room obedient!y and
stood before him.
The chevalier asked: How did it
happen, child? Tell me all about 1t.
where you saw him. who was there.
and ALL"
So she went on to tell of her seek
Ing me in the park. and her hurried
warning.
We'll. what did he say to all that?"
He didn't say anything: 1 gave him
no chance; I just ran up near him and
told him as quick as ever I could that
he had better go off somewhere, and
then-and then-we!!, 7 just ran away
again. He looked so startled and sur
prised he could not say anything.
When I turned again to peep through
the hedge he was still standing there
with his hands stretched out as if he
would have liked to stop me, cut l wa
already gone"
Continued Next Weekly
A Plea for Good Manners.
In delivering the Founders day ad.
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